# Forward Deployment Engineer (Residency Program) at Hippocratic AI

- Company: Hippocratic AI
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.hippocraticai.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Menlo Park, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-19
- Apply by: 2026-11-03
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hippocratic%20ai/af91b9bd-4452-42c0-93d5-e1943070618e
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hippocratic-ai-forward-deployment-engineer-residency-program/

## 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

Tags: Research & Development