Hippocratic AI builds the safest generative AI healthcare agent for health systems, payors, and pharma. Over 180 million clinical interactions across 1,000+ use cases with 60+ partners worldwide. Backed by General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and a16z.
About the role
Develop advanced prompts for our conversation planning layer using sophisticated prompting techniques (chain-of-thought, few-shot learning, role-based prompting, structured outputs) to enable complex agentic workflows that handle real clinical scenarios Engineer conversation logic and patient interactions that balance clinical accuracy, safety guardrails, and patient experience—writing, testing, and iterating on prompts that make our agents feel natural and trustworthy
What they're looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent demonstrated coursework and professional projects)
- 2+ years of professional industry experience in software development, AI/ML, or related technical roles
- Strong Python proficiency with hands-on experience writing production or near-production code
- Demonstrated experience with LLM prompting through professional work or substantial personal projects (ChatGPT, Claude, or similar models)
- Experience building integrations with databases and RESTful APIs, including understanding of async patterns and error handling
- Strong problem-solving mindset with proven ability to break down complex problems and iterate toward solutions
More about this role
As HAI's Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) Resident, you will own the delivery of safe, autonomous clinical conversations with patients, from the conversation layer to the integration design. You'll develop and refine the prompts and conversation logic that determine how millions of patients experience our breakthrough healthcare AI. And you’ll architect the transports and mappings to get data in and out of these conversations. This role exists because building truly autonomous clinical conversations requires both deep technical skill and relentless focus on patient experience—and we need someone who can master both.
Own your first major outcome: By day 90, you will have shipped improvements to at least two live conversation workflows, developed advanced prompts that meaningfully improve clinical safety scores or patient satisfaction metrics, collaborated with clinicians to translate their feedback into conversation logic, and shipped code that's now running in production healthcare environments.
Drive lasting impact: This is the front door to our Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) track: your first 6 months are as an FDE Resident, followed by 6 months as an Associate FDE, working...
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