{"id":1574613,"url":"https://alion.io/job/qualified-health-technical-lead-applied-ai-engineer","title":"Staff Applied AI Engineer","company":{"id":685969,"name":"Qualified Health","domain":"qualifiedhealthai.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/qualifiedhealthai","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":86,"open_postings":19,"ghost_share":0.158,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":91,"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Palo Alto, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":200000,"max":260000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":260000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Agentic Workflows","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Anthropic","optional":false},{"name":"ChatGPT","optional":false},{"name":"Claude","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"LLM Guardrails","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-01T00:28:52Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-01","last_verified_at":"2026-10-20T13:30:16Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":19,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":["company_stale"],"days_open":19},"description":"Transform healthcare with us.\nAt Qualified Health, we're redefining what's possible with Generative AI in healthcare. Our infrastructure provides the guardrails for safe AI governance, healthcare-specific agent creation, and real-time algorithm monitoring-working alongside leading health systems to drive real change.\nThis is more than just a job. It's an opportunity to build the future of AI in healthcare, solve complex challenges, and make a lasting impact on patient care. If you're ambitious, innovative, and ready to move fast, we'd love to have you on board.\nJoin us in shaping the future of healthcare.\nJob Summary:\nWe're hiring a Staff Applied AI Engineer to take technical ownership of how we build and scale agentic workflows across Qualified Health's product lines. This role goes beyond shipping individual workflows - you'll set the architectural patterns, reusable infrastructure, and engineering standards that let the rest of the team build faster and more reliably. You'll operate with significant autonomy, driving technical direction on ambiguous problems with minimal oversight, while still being hands-on in the code.\nYou'll partner closely with engineering leadership, product, and design to translate healthcare-specific AI challenges into scalable systems, and you'll be a technical anchor other engineers look to for guidance on agentic workflow design.\nKey Responsibilities:\nArchitect and build the core agentic workflow infrastructure supporting 100+ workflows across multiple product lines.\n\nSet technical standards and reusable patterns (eval pipelines, prompt frameworks, deployment patterns) for agentic workflow development team-wide.\n\nLead design and code review for complex, cross-cutting integrations and production services.\n\nDrive evaluation and adoption decisions for state-of-the-art LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, etc.) across use cases, including build-vs-buy tradeoffs.\n\nMentor engineers on production-grade agentic system design, MLOps practices, and shipping fast without sacrificing reliability.\n\nPartner with product, engineering, and design leadership to shape the technical roadmap for AI-powered features.\n\nIdentify and resolve systemic bottlenecks in the workflow infrastructure before they block the broader team.\n\nRequired Qualifications:\nStrong software engineering foundation (Python required; deep familiarity with production system design).\n\n5+ years building production software, including 2+ years building AI-powered applications with LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Anthropic, Mistral, etc.).\n\nDemonstrated experience architecting REST APIs and services deployed at scale in cloud environments (GCP preferred).\n\nStrong grasp of MLOps, model deployment, and workflow automation - with experience setting standards or infrastructure other engineers build on, not just consuming it.\n\nTrack record of driving technical decisions with significant ambiguity and minimal oversight.\n\nDesirable Skills:\nBachelor's degree + 7 years OR Master's degree + 5 years in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).\n\nBackground spanning both software engineering and ML/AI systems.\n\nExperience designing eval pipelines, prompt tuning frameworks, or automation infrastructure at a platform level.\n\nStartup experience with a demonstrated bias toward shipping fast and scrappily.\n\nExposure to both startup agility and the engineering rigor of a mature, at-scale codebase.\n\nExperience mentoring engineers or setting technical direction for a team.\n\nWhy Join Qualified Health?\nThis is an opportunity to join a fast-growing company and a world-class team, that is poised to change the healthcare industry. We are a passionate, mission-driven team that is building a category-defining product. We are backed by premier investors and are looking for founding team members who are excited to do the best work of their careers.\nOur employees are integral to achieving our goals so we are proud to offer competitive salaries with equity packages, robust medical/dental/vision insurance, flexible working hours, hybrid work options and an inclusive environment that fosters creativity and innovation.\nOur Commitment to Diversity\nQualified Health is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace is essential to our success, and we are committed to building a team that reflects the world we live in. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, disability, or veteran status.\nPay & Benefits: The pay range for this role is between $200,000 and $260,000, depending on skills, qualifications, experience, and location. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits.\nJoin our mission to revolutionize healthcare with AI. To apply, please send your resume through the application below.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4928,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible schedule","Hybrid work","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Medical AI","AI Governance & Compliance"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T09:23:33Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 20","filings_12m":20,"filings_prev_12m":4,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":187500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":19}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":19,"expected_fill_days":91,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":260000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/qualified-health-technical-lead-applied-ai-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/qualified-health-technical-lead-applied-ai-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-20T14:39:45Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":16491,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":685969},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=685969"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fqualified-health-technical-lead-applied-ai-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fqualified-health-technical-lead-applied-ai-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fqualified-health-technical-lead-applied-ai-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/qualified-health-technical-lead-applied-ai-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fqualified-health-technical-lead-applied-ai-engineer"}]}