Software Engineer, AI Agents

About Asha Health

Asha Health is building the future of self-learning for healthcare generative AI. We're backed by Y Combinator, General Catalyst, 186 Ventures, Reach Capital and many more. We recently raised an oversubscribed seed round from some of the best investors in Silicon Valley. Our team includes AI product leaders from companies like Google, physician executives from major health systems, and more.

About the Role

We're looking for an "insanely cracked engineer" to join our engineering team. We're looking for someone who is an all-rounder, but has particularly exceptional backend engineering skills. Our ideal candidate has built AI agents and leveraged clever engineering techniques to improve latency & reliability for complex workflows.

This role will be in person working with the 2 founders 6 days per week, so safe to say you will get close! If you are a go-getter and have the intensity it takes to win, this role could be for you. If this does not align with your current goals it may not be the best fit and we would recommend you do not apply.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to build state-of-the-art AI agents across several modalities. You will be horizontal across our engineering team, experimenting and implementing novel AI/ML techniques to improve performance and reliability of various AI agents.

You'll get to wear many hats. Here is some of the fun stuff you will do:

• Develop AI agents with industry-leading performance for high stakes use cases in healthcare.
• Architect our data annotation, fine tuning, and RLHF workflows.
• Push the bleeding-edge in what is technically feasible!
• Act like a owner - propose ideas and call your own shots!
• Impact hundreds of thousands (hopefully millions) of patient lives!
• Win.

Requirements

• Graduated with a bachelors in computer science or related degree.
• Very strong backend experience, preferably in 0-1 or 1-10 environments.
• Worked at an early stage startup (Seed - Series C) before.
• Experience building AI agents before with a high degree for reliability (we will ask you to impress us with the clever backend engineering techniques you've used).
• Must be ready to work in person in Manhattan, New York 5 days per week in person but 6 days per week total.

Bonus:

• Built and scaled your own projects to significant revenue.
• Understanding of US healthcare/health-tech.

Why the heck should you work at Asha Health?

#1 We’ve got problems. A lot of them. Particularly, the really tough, barely possible, yet really fascinating to engineer kind. Come live on the ~~cutting~~ bleeding edge. Everyone on our team pushes the boundaries of self-learning and applied AI within high stakes industries. We collaborate with leading companies in this space to unlock new capabilities every 2 weeks that weren’t possible before. Nearly all of our engineering work is on the cusp of applied AI: just barely possible, requires research & experimentation, but once we figure it out we ship it and it makes a lot of impact.

#2 It feels good to care: A“job” can sometimes feel like selling a piece of your soul for money. But when you join an early stage startup, you’re not really signing up for a job. You’re embarking on a “mission”, an unrelenting pursuit in which you dare to try to bend the universe around your vision, knowing that if in the off-chance it works, nothing will ever be the same.

Our only guarantee to you is that your mission, should you choose to accept it, will get you out of bed excited, with anticipation, probably kind of scared (?) - but you’ll care and that’ll feel refreshing. How do we know that? Because we understand a few fundamental truisms about the world, and about you:

• There’s nothing more exhilarating than swinging big even when the odds are stacked against you.
• A team isn’t a team until it fosters a sense of belonging.
• Surrounding yourself with intelligent people is a solid B+ move. But if they’re also down to earth and got your back, it’s a straight A.
• You’re done changing buttons. Deep down, you want to change lives.

#3 I guess we’re kind of cool. Folks we’ve got on our team: AI product leaders from Google, engineering talent from Brex, physician executives from major health systems, & more. We’ve got a bunch of doctors who are our friends and have got our backs. We’re growing rapidly with more customer interest than we can onboard, and some of us have fairly special* talents!

#4 Beautiful working space! Natural light reduces depression and anxiety by a non trivial percent. True story.