Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Talkiatry is transforming mental health care by making high-quality psychiatry more accessible, human, and sustainable for both patients and clinicians. The Senior AI Engineer will join a new AI Engineering team to build foundational AI capabilities for mental healthcare, working across the AI lifecycle and collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure the safe deployment of AI in healthcare.
Responsibilities
- Full-Stack AI Development: Build frontend interfaces, backend services, APIs, integrations, and data flows that make AI capabilities usable in patient, clinician, and internal workflows
- Agentic AI Systems: Build and iterate on agentic systems that use reasoning, tool use, retrieval, memory, and multi-step workflows to solve healthcare problems
- RAG & Knowledge Systems: Build and maintain RAG pipelines, ingestion workflows, retrieval tuning, semantic search, and knowledge quality improvements
- Evaluation & Quality: Implement evaluation frameworks, automated tests, experiments, regression checks, and quality metrics to improve AI system performance over time
- Safety, Guardrails & Observability: Implement guardrails, fallback flows, human-in-the-loop workflows, access controls, tracing, monitoring, and diagnostics for production AI systems
- Production Delivery: Contribute to reliable production rollouts, CI/CD workflows, debugging, incident response, performance improvements, and operational efficiency
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with senior engineers, product, clinical, design, and data partners to translate real workflows into safe, reliable AI-powered experiences
Skills
- 2+ years of software engineering experience, including building, testing, and maintaining production software systems
- 1+ year of experience building with LLMs, agentic AI, or production AI systems, ideally beyond simple chatbot or prompt-only use cases
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or TypeScript, with experience building backend services, APIs, integrations, data flows, or full-stack product features
- Experience with modern frontend or full-stack development using technologies such as React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, or similar frameworks
- Experience contributing to AI systems involving retrieval, tool use, workflow orchestration, structured outputs, context management, or multi-step execution
- Familiarity with agentic frameworks and orchestration tools such as LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, or similar frameworks
- Familiarity with RAG systems, vector databases, semantic search, retrieval infrastructure, model serving, or knowledge pipelines
- Familiarity with cloud-native development, containerized services, Kubernetes, CI/CD workflows, or scalable production environments
- Strong debugging, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work through ambiguity and make steady progress with guidance from senior engineers
- Experience building AI systems in healthcare, clinical, safety-critical, or other regulated environments
- Familiarity with HIPAA, clinical AI safety, FDA AI/ML guidance, or compliance-aware software development
- Experience using tests, evaluation methods, quality metrics, experiments, observability, or release checks to improve system reliability and performance
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, effective day 1 of employment
- 401K with match
- Generous PTO plus paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Hone your skills and build new ones with our Learning team as Talkiatry expands
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