{"id":716767,"url":"https://alion.io/job/abby-care-senior-applied-ai-engineer","title":"Senior Applied AI Engineer","company":{"id":6409,"name":"Abby Care","domain":"abbycare.org","url":"https://alion.io/company/abbycare","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":83,"open_postings":3,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.667,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":26,"computed_at":"2026-11-03T05:54:40Z"}},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":220000,"max":270000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":270000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Fine-tuning","optional":false},{"name":"Knowledge Graph","optional":false},{"name":"LLM Evaluation","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Multimodal AI","optional":false},{"name":"Post-training","optional":false},{"name":"Reinforcement Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Synthetic Data","optional":false},{"name":"PPO","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-11T03:42:57Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-15","last_verified_at":"2026-11-04T01:17:19Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":54,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":54},"description":"About Abby Care: Powering the future of care at home for all of America.\nAbby Care is building the leading AI-native platform for family-led care. America is facing a growing care crisis. Millions more people need care at home than ever. Over 50 million family caregivers support loved ones without the tools, training, or recognition they deserve.\nWe believe families are the largest untapped caregiving workforce in America, and that technology can help them deliver better care while driving stronger outcomes and greater transparency across the healthcare system.\nAbby Care combines clinical oversight with an AI-powered platform to train, enable, and support family caregivers in delivering high-quality care at home. Our platform helps health plans and government partners better understand, verify, and improve care in the home. We expand access to care, reduce reliance on higher-cost settings, and help ensure public dollars are spent effectively.\nWe are proud to partner with leading health plans, providers, and community organizations and are backed by top VCs. We envision a future where family-led care is a core part of the healthcare system. Abby Care is building that future.\nJoin us in solving one of the most important challenges of our time.\nThe Opportunity\nAbby Care is building an AI-native operating system for home care-one that manages the full lifecycle from caregiver and patient intake through care delivery, billing, and compliance.\nAs we expand our capacity to support more family caregivers at scale, we’re looking for a Senior Applied AI Engineer to design and build production AI systems that automate complex, consequential healthcare workflows. Reporting to the Applied AI Leader, you will own major initiatives from initial problem definition through production deployment and measurable impact.\nDepending on the problem, you may build an agent that collects clinical documentation, interprets evidence across multiple records, prepares a prior authorization packet, assists a nurse during a visit, identifies billing risk, or coordinates operational follow-up.\nYou will determine how workflows should be decomposed, what context and tools an AI system needs, how its behavior should be evaluated, where deterministic controls are required, and when a human must intervene. You will work closely with product engineers, product managers, designers, clinicians, operators, and analysts to ensure that the systems you build reflect real-world workflows and produce meaningful outcomes.\nHigh-agency and pragmatic, you are comfortable operating in ambiguity, moving between experimentation and production engineering, and owning technically complex systems end to end. If you are excited to apply frontier AI capabilities to difficult, high-impact problems while transforming care in the home, we’d love to hear from you!\nThis is a Full-Time Hybrid opportunity based in San Francisco.\nWhat you’ll work on\nOwn high-impact AI systems end to end: Lead initiatives from workflow discovery and technical design through production deployment, iteration, and measurable business or care outcomes.\n\nBuild reliable agents and copilots: Develop systems that reason over structured and unstructured data, use internal tools, and execute multi-step workflows across intake, care delivery, billing, and operations.\n\nEngineer for real-world complexity: Design systems that handle incomplete information, conflicting evidence, changing requirements, and operational edge cases by combining models, retrieval, rules, state machines, and human oversight.\n\nBuild rigorous evaluation and monitoring: Create representative datasets, evaluation harnesses, production tracing, confidence-based escalation, and systematic error-analysis processes.\n\nIntegrate AI into complete workflows: Partner with Product, Design, Clinical, Operations, Analytics, Platform, and System of Record engineers to ensure AI capabilities solve real problems rather than remain isolated prototypes.\n\nRaise the technical bar: Contribute reusable platform capabilities, shape architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and improve how the team builds and operates Applied AI systems.\n\nWhat success looks like\nYou independently own and deliver complex Applied AI systems from discovery through sustained production operation.\n\nThe systems you build create measurable improvements in workflow completion, speed, quality, operational capacity, or family experience.\n\nAI behavior is supported by representative evaluations, systematic error analysis, and clear production monitoring.\n\nYour systems respond safely to uncertainty through confidence handling, escalation, and human approval where appropriate.\n\nAI capabilities are integrated into end-to-end product and operational workflows rather than remaining isolated prototypes.\n\nThe components you build are reusable across use cases and improve the velocity of the broader engineering organization.\n\nYou help other engineers make better architectural and implementation decisions through technical leadership and mentorship.\n\nYou develop a deep understanding of Abby Care’s operational and clinical domains and use that understanding to improve the systems you build.\n\nWhat you’ll have\n5+ years of professional software engineering, machine learning, or Applied AI experience.\n\nExperience building and operating AI- or machine-learning-powered systems in production.\n\nStrong hands-on experience with language models, retrieval systems, structured generation, model APIs, or agent architectures.\n\nStrong software engineering fundamentals, including backend systems, APIs, data modeling, testing, and observability.\n\nExperience designing evaluations and analyzing the behavior of probabilistic systems.\n\nDemonstrated ability to take ownership of ambiguous, cross-functional problems and drive them through implementation and iteration.\n\nStrong judgment about where AI is appropriate and where deterministic approaches or human review are required.\n\nAbility to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and nontechnical partners.\n\nExperience mentoring engineers, leading technically complex projects, or influencing architectural decisions.\n\nMust reside in or be willing to permanently relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area.\n\nExperience with model fine-tuning, post-training, reinforcement learning, synthetic data generation, multimodal models, document intelligence, knowledge graphs, ontologies, workflow engines, or state machines is preferred but not required.\n\nExperience in healthcare, fintech, insurance, or another regulated and operations-intensive environment is preferred but not required.\n\nBenefits\nCompetitive compensation packages that reflect the value you bring. We reward our team for the impact of their work.\n\nComprehensive health coverage that works for you. Choose from high-quality medical dental and vision options, including a $0 deductible PPO and a company-funded HSA, alongside employer-paid life and disability insurance.\n\nGenerous paid time off. We provide policies that allow you to recharge along with 10 paid company holidays.\n\nFinancial savings benefits to support your future. We support your financial well-being with HSA contributions, optional FSA and commuter benefits, and full coverage of all 401(k) account fees (employer match not currently offered).\n\nPaid parental leave to support your growing family. We provide paid leave, so you can focus on bonding and adjusting to life as your family grows.\n\nOur Values\nFamilies First Redefining healthcare starts with how we treat the parents and children we serve. We go above and beyond for every family, building strong, lasting relationships. We continually ask ourselves, “Would we want this for our own families?”\n\nUrgency with Precision Millions of families are waiting for care, and they cannot wait, therefore this is not your typical 9 to 5 job. We match their urgency with our own, delivering exceptional care without compromise. Here, speed and excellence go hand in hand.\n\nRelentlessly Resourceful As an ambitious startup, we adapt quickly and make the most of limited time and resources. We solve challenges with creativity to deliver results without unnecessary complexity.\n\nPurpose with Positivity We take our mission seriously while never losing sight of the people behind the work. Respect, kindness, memes, and coffee make us stronger as a team and better for the families we serve.\n\nDriven to Redefine What’s Possible We are here to make healthcare better, which means asking hard questions, challenging outdated systems, and finding smarter, more compassionate ways to deliver care.\n\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nAbby Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation during any portion of the application or hiring process, contact .\nAbby Care considers qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment and conducts background checks consistent with applicable law, including the California, Los Angeles County, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and New York City Fair Chance laws. We are an E-Verify participating company.\nAutomated Decision Tools\nAbby Care may use automated decision tools to help match and rank candidate work experience, education and skills found in online profiles, resumes and job applications against job requirements. We believe that these tools help ensure objective, data-based decisions during the hiring process, however, all Abby Care hiring decisions involve final human review and input. 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