Staff Software Engineer, AI Engineer

About the role

Midi Health is the largest virtual care clinic for women in midlife navigating perimenopause, menopause, and other hormonal transitions. We combine expert clinicians, evidence-based protocols, and a modern technology platform to deliver care that has historically been underserved by the healthcare system. We're a fast-growing, mission-driven company building the infrastructure and products that define this new category of care.

Location

Hybrid- San Francisco OR Palo Alto Office, Tuesday/Thursday

What You Will Do

• Lead technical strategy for AI/LLM systems across Midi's product surfaces
• Architect retrieval, orchestration, agentic, and evaluation systems that run reliably in production
• Set the standards for AI safety, evaluation, observability, and responsible rollout in a healthcare context
• Partner with clinical, product, and executive leadership to shape the AI roadmap
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers into strong AI engineers; raise the AI literacy of the whole org
• Lead the frontier: evaluate new models, techniques, and tools, and bring the right ones into the team

About You

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with deep recent time leading production AI/LLM systems
• Seasoned hands-on coder; still writes production Python regularly
• Seasoned system designer for AI systems at scale — retrieval, agents, evaluation, latency, and cost
• Authority in AI engineering: teams and leaders defer to your judgment, and you can defend it rigorously
• Leader at the AI frontier: you set how the team uses AI tooling and how we build AI products
• Seasoned mentor; you've grown engineers into strong AI builders
• Strong communicator with product, clinical, and executive stakeholders; thoughtful about risk and safety tradeoffs
• Low-ego, curious, humble

Nice to Have

• Healthcare, clinical NLP, or regulated AI deployment experience
• Track record of shipping agentic or large-scale RAG systems in production

Interview Process

• Recruiter Screen (30 min)
• Hiring Manager Screen (45 min)
• Live Technical Assessment (3 sessions: 150 min)
• On-Site Interview and Lunch (4 sessions: 150 min)

Pay

The estimated salary range for this role is $210,000-$250,000 per year, based on factors such as experience and skills. In addition to base salary, employees are eligible for a wide range of benefits and equity in the company, We believe in fair and competitive compensation practices that align with our values of equity and inclusion.