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You'll be the bridge between research, product, customers, and engineering, driving AI adoption from strategy through production at scale.\nThis role is ideal for someone who thrives in early-stage environments, enjoys owning things end to end, and wants their work to have a measurable impact on an industry that desperately needs modern infrastructure.\nWhat You’ll Do\nSystem Architecture & Design\nDesign and evolve a modular architecture to power configurable healthcare workflows at scale.\n\nBuild a workflow orchestration engine capable of handling thousands of concurrent stateful tasks (credentialing, verification, enrollment).\n\nDefine and optimize integration frameworks to connect with thousands of external systems - web portals, APIs, PDFs, spreadsheets.\n\nDrive reliability, auditability, and performance through observability, self-healing, and clear fault-domain boundaries.\n\nApplied AI and Automation\nLead the design and deployment of AI-powered digital workers - LLM- and rules-driven agents that perform operational workflows end-to-end.\n\nEvaluate AI tools, frameworks, and third-party APIs, ensuring alignment with platform goals and data protection requirements.\n\nLeadership\nPartner with product, engineering, and analytics to discover use cases, build features, and deliver value\n\nEngage with customers to understand operational challenges, validate assumptions, and iterate solutions quickly\n\nProvide technical mentorship to the engineering team\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\nQualifications\n10+ years experience building and scaling complex, distributed systems or workflow-heavy SaaS platforms.\n\nDeep experience implementing AI harnesses.\n\nRecent experience in startups.\n\nProven ability to own architecture and make high-stakes technical decisions in ambiguous, high-growth environments.\n\nDeep understanding of modern cloud architecture and full software stacks.\n\nExcellent communication - able to clearly explain technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences alike.\n\nYou’ll Love This Role If You\nWant to lead AI projects from idea to deployment.\n\nWant to own architecture, projects, and culture.\n\nThrive in a 0→1 environment, building from scratch and scaling from concept to production.\n\nCare deeply about impact - accelerating patient access by fixing the infrastructure of healthcare.\n\nBelieve great products emerge from tight collaboration between product, engineering, and operations.\n\nWant your work to outlast you - building systems that become part of healthcare’s invisible infrastructure.\n\nWhy Join Assured\nHigh-impact work - Tackle bottlenecks that slow down provider access to patients\n\nReal-world AI - Build intelligent systems that reason, act, and automate in production.\n\nCross-functional exposure - Collaborate with customers, clinical ops, engineers, and founders\n\nEarly-stage upside - Equity, early influence, and a high-growth trajectory\n\nPeople-first culture - Mental health time, and a focus on outcomes, not hours\n\nBenefits and Pay\nOur headquarters are located in New York City. 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