Senior AI Engineer
Sidecar Health
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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About the role
- Design, architect, and deploy AI-powered systems that directly impact member experience and operational efficiency
- Build and optimize LLM-driven applications using advanced prompt engineering, RAG architectures, and agentic workflows
- Design scalable AI pipelines using modern orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LangSmith, LlamaIndex, etc.)
- Architect multi-agent systems capable of reasoning, planning, and executing complex multi-step tasks
- Implement evaluation and monitoring frameworks to measure AI performance, detect hallucinations, and ensure reliability at scale
- Own cloud-native AI infrastructure for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and security
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to identify and execute high-impact AI initiatives
- Stay at the frontier of the AI ecosystem and translate emerging capabilities into production-ready systems
- Establish internal standards, tooling, and best practices for AI development across the organization
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including meaningful ownership of production systems
- Significant hands-on experience building and deploying AI/ML systems in production
- Strong proficiency in Python and TypeScript (Next.js a plus)
- Deep experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock) and orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LangSmith, LlamaIndex)
- Strong understanding of advanced prompt engineering techniques and LLM optimization strategies
- Experience designing and deploying RAG systems, vector databases, and semantic search applications
- Cloud infrastructure expertise (AWS preferred): Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3
- Strong understanding of LLM behavior: tokenization, embeddings, context limits, evaluation, and hallucination mitigation
- Demonstrated track record of shipping scalable, production-grade AI systems — not prototypes or demos.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, bonus opportunity, and equity package
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
- A 401k retirement plan
- Paid vacation and company holidays
- Opportunity to make an impact at a rapidly growing mission-driven company transforming healthcare in the U.S.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonTypeScriptAI/ML systemsadvanced prompt engineeringLLM optimizationRAG systemsvector databasessemantic search applicationscloud infrastructurescalable AI systems
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingorganizational skills