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Our work brings together distributed backend services, data flows, and machine learning and AI capabilities to make member communication more relevant, timely, and actionable.\nAs an AI Engineer, you’ll build and operate the backend systems that bring AI-powered product capabilities to members. You’ll partner with senior engineers, ML Scientists, Data Engineering, Product, and other software engineers to design APIs, services, workflows, and data flows that are reliable in production.\nThis role is a strong fit for a backend-leaning software engineer who wants to apply distributed-systems skills to AI products. You’ll help integrate, deploy, and operate models and AI services within product systems; model training and research are not the primary focus. MLOps experience is valuable, but the core expectation is strong software engineering, production execution, and operational ownership.\nWhat You’ll Accomplish\nIn your first 3 months\nLearn the Proactive Communications & Notifications domain, service architecture, operational practices, and member-impact goals.\n\nShip well-scoped improvements to APIs, services, asynchronous jobs, or workflows with guidance from senior engineers.\n\nBuild familiarity with the team’s testing, observability, deployment, and incident-response practices; participate in on-call or incident support as appropriate.\n\nIn your first 6 months\nOwn a medium-sized feature from planning through implementation, testing, rollout, and follow-up with minimal support.\n\nIntegrate an ML- or AI-backed capability into a product workflow through clear interfaces, reliable data flows, and appropriate failure handling.\n\nImprove the correctness and operability of distributed systems by applying patterns such as retries, idempotency, versioning, graceful degradation, dashboards, and structured logging.\n\nIn your first year\nDeliver multiple production initiatives that improve the relevance, timeliness, reliability, or maintainability of member communications.\n\nTrace and resolve issues across APIs, services, queues, databases, model-backed components, and data dependencies, raising risks and decisions early.\n\nHelp strengthen the team through thoughtful code reviews, design documentation, pairing, onboarding support, and contributions to engineering practices.\n\nWho You Are\nYou are a backend-minded software engineer who enjoys building reliable systems and learning how they behave in production.\n\nYou can take a well-scoped problem from design through launch, break work into incremental changes, and ask for direction when complexity or ambiguity increases.\n\nYou demonstrate effective communication through clear design notes, concise status updates, thoughtful code reviews, and early escalation of risks.\n\nYou are a learn-it-all who welcomes feedback, builds depth in your primary technologies, and develops the judgment to make sound tradeoffs.\n\nYou practice accountability by owning the quality, reliability, and follow-through of the systems you build.\n\nYou lead at all levels: you are hands-on in the details, contribute to a positive team culture, and help teammates succeed through collaboration and knowledge sharing.\n\nBasic Qualifications\n2+ years of non-internship, full-time professional software engineering experience.\n\nExperience building and operating backend services or distributed systems in production, including APIs, asynchronous processing, event-driven systems, workflows, or data-intensive services.\n\nProfessional experience with at least one production programming language such as Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, Java, Kotlin, or a comparable language, plus experience with software testing, observability, deployment, or production support.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience integrating ML- or AI-backed services into production products.\n\nExperience with AWS or another cloud platform and technologies such as Docker, Kafka, PostgreSQL, or equivalent systems.\n\nExperience with asynchronous processing, workflow orchestration, event-driven systems, or long-running state.\n\nFamiliarity with CI/CD, service monitoring, model deployment, inference, or model versioning.\n\nExperience with Temporal, Step Functions, Kubernetes, Airflow, or comparable systems.\n\nExperience with generative AI, LLMs, retrieval, agents, or evaluation systems.\n\nExperience working in healthcare, digital health, fintech, or another regulated or data-sensitive domain.\n\nHinge Health Hybrid Model\nThis is a hybrid role based in the San Francisco office, requiring in-person attendance three days per week for a full 8-hour business day. On remote days, employees are expected to work during core business hours with flexibility. The office is part of a dog-friendly workplace program.\nAbout Hinge Health\nAt Hinge Health, we’re using technology to scale and automate the delivery of healthcare - starting with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, which affect over 1.7 billion people worldwide.\nWith an AI-powered human-centered care model, Hinge Health leverages cutting-edge technology to improve outcomes, experiences and costs to help people move beyond their pain.\nThe platform addresses a broad spectrum of MSK care - from acute injury, to chronic pain, to post-surgical rehabilitation - through personalized, evidence-based care.\nAs the preferred partner to 60+ health plans, PBMs and other ecosystem partners, Hinge Health is available to over 20 million people across more than 2,800 employers.\nThe company is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Montreal and Bangalore.\nLearn more athingehealth.com.\nWhat You’ll Love About Us\nInclusive healthcare and benefits: On top of comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, we offer employees and their family members help with gender-affirming care, tools for family and fertility planning, and travel reimbursements if healthcare isn’t available where you live.\n\nPlanning for the future: Start saving for the future with our traditional or Roth 401k retirement plan options, which include a 2% company match.\n\nModern life stipends: Manage your own learning and development.\n\nGrow with us: Grow with us through discounted company stock through our ESPP with easy payroll deductions.\n\nCulture & Engagement\nHinge Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.\nWe make employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.\nWe also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.\nWe provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you feel you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, let us know by reaching out to your recruiter.\nBy submitting your application, you acknowledge that we use your personal data as outlined in the personnel and candidate privacy policy.\nBeware of phishing attempts: We’ve noticed an increase in phishing where fraudsters impersonate employees and send fake job offers to steal sensitive information. We’ll never ask for financial details during the hiring process and only use “@hingehealth.com ” email addresses. If you receive a suspicious offer, stop communication and report it to the US FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center. To verify an email from our recruiting team, forward it to .\nBeware of Phishing Attempts: We've noticed an increase in phishing where fraudsters impersonate employees and send fake job offers to steal sensitive information. We'll never ask for financial details during the hiring process and only use \"@hingehealth.com \" emails. 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