Senior Software Engineer, AI

At UpDoc , we are building the first clinically validated, physician-supervised AI agent that manages chronic diseases. We are an early-stage startup founded by Stanford physicians.

We are seeking a talented and motivated senior engineer to join our team. You will primarily work on UpDoc’s patient-facing conversational agent. This is a fully remote position.

You’re an experienced senior engineer with a backend tilt. You’re well-versed in all things web and have experience building LLM applications end-to-end, even if not in a professional context. You follow the AI/LLM space closely, play with new technologies as they come out, and are excited to use these technologies to build safe, reliable medical AI systems.

Lead the development of our patient-facing conversational agent

Implement a scalable, low-latency system for voice/multimodal conversations

Implement rigorous prompt engineering processes and develop useful metrics for system evaluation

Identify where fine-tuning and alignment might be valuable, and create data pipelines to enable fast experimentation

Work with other backend engineers to deploy AI models and chat/voice APIs

Help identify, evaluate, and implement emerging LLM technologies, tools and frameworks

Collaborate with clinical experts to validate performance and medical accuracy

Work on developing backend services using FastAPI and Pydantic

5+ years of professional software development experience, including 2+ years of experience with backend web development