Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Gravie is a healthcare benefits company focused on creating health benefit solutions for small and midsize businesses and their employees. The Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI will design and build production-grade AI agent systems, distributed backend services, and user experiences while establishing quality, security, privacy, and compliance practices. The role also involves evaluating AI models and frameworks, owning end-to-end engineering outcomes, and mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities
- Design and build production-grade AI agent systems, including multi-agent workflows, orchestration layers, and supporting services
- Design retrieval, context, and memory systems that ground AI outputs and support reliable multi-step workflows
- Develop AI-powered decision-support systems that meet the accuracy, traceability, and explainability requirements of healthcare and other regulated environments
- Develop distributed backend services, event-driven workers, job pipelines, APIs, and relational data models
- Build intuitive, product-quality user experiences using React and TypeScript that make complex AI capabilities understandable and actionable
- Establish patterns for AI quality assurance, including automated evaluations, regression testing, groundedness checks, and compliance guardrails
- Evaluate models and frameworks using accuracy, latency, reliability, privacy, security, and cost evidence
- Mentor engineers and help raise engineering standards across the team
Skills
- Five or more years of software engineering experience, including ownership of complex systems from design through production
- Hands-on experience building and operating production AI applications, not only prototypes
- Hands-on experience with agentic software development, using AI coding agents to help create specifications and plans, execute meaningful multi-step work across a codebase, run and fix tests, validate results, and iterate while maintaining ownership of architecture, quality, and what ultimately ships
- Deep expertise in at least one primary area, such as Python backend and distributed systems, or React and TypeScript product engineering, plus the ability to work across the full system
- Experience with retrieval, embeddings, context, memory, evaluation, monitoring, or AI agent architectures and workflows
- Strong judgment in testing, monitoring, failure handling, privacy, security, access control, and data governance
- Clear communication and effective collaboration across technical and non-technical teams
Benefits
- Standard health and wellness benefits
- Alternative medicine coverage
- Flexible PTO
- Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Paid holidays
- A 401k program
- Transportation perks
- Education reimbursement
- 2 days of paid paw-ternity leave
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