August Health

Healthcare

SeniorSoftwareEngineer,AI

$165–235k ~AI est. United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer, AI at August Health. Skills: Applied LLM, Production software, AI features, TypeScript. Design and ship LLM-powered product features. Design prompts”

What You'll Achieve.

Ship reliable AI capabilities; Measure quality; Catch regressions; Reason about nondeterministic behavior; Improve observability; Ensure operational reliability; Make product meaningfully useful

Industry & Context.

Healthcare
Problems you'll solve

Reasoning about tradeoffs; Problem shaping

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years of experience building production software, Owned customer-facing features end to end, Production TypeScript experience, Hands-on applied-LLM experience, Comfortable working with sensitive data

Nice to Have

Experience with Mastra, Experience with Vercel AI SDK, Experience with LangChain, Experience with LlamaIndex, Experience with eval tooling for LLM systems, Experience with observability tooling for LLM systems, Experience helping engineering team adopt AI tools, Experience with functional TypeScript, Experience with Effect, Ability to read Scala, Interest in learning Scala, Healthcare experience, Senior living experience, SOC 2 experience, HIPAA experience, Regulated-industry experience, Early engineer on small team experience

What You'll Do.

Design and ship LLM-powered product features

Design structured output

Design tool orchestration

Design agent orchestration

Pair with product-vertical engineers

Unblock AI feature work

Help teams apply AI patterns

Turn AI implementation work into reusable tools

Create reusable examples

Create reusable documentation

Create reusable lightweight practices

Build evaluation discipline

Reason about nondeterministic behavior

Improve observability for AI workflows

Improve prompt visibility

Improve error tracking

Improve latency tracking

Improve cost tracking

Improve production feedback loops

Harden AI features for production

Implement pre-computation

Implement cancellation

Manage memory behavior

Ensure operational reliability

Handle sensitive data with care

Implement permissioning

Implement tenancy boundaries

Implement safe access patterns

Partner with product managers

Partner with vertical engineering teams

Translate clinical workflows

Translate operational workflows

Help non-engineers experiment safely

Create path from prototype to production

Drive responsible AI tool use

Model effective workflows

Review AI-assisted output

Raise shared standards

Review AI-assisted code

Set engineering standards

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner directly with product teams; Pair with engineers; Share reusable patterns; Review designs; Review code; Partner with product managers; Partner with vertical engineering teams; Pairing with other engineers; Teaching through real work; Helping teams adopt patterns; Communicate with PMs; Communicate with clinicians; Communicate with operators; Communicate with engineers

Communication Scope

Written communication; Verbal communication; Candid communication

Process & Methodology

High autonomy, High ownership, Shaping ambiguous problems

Full Job Description

ABOUT AUGUST HEALTH At August Health, our mission is to empower the essential work of caring for our elders. We achieve this by providing a modern operating platform and electronic health record (EHR) that enables senior living operators to deliver high-quality care with confidence. Caregivers are the heart of senior living communities, embodying care, compassion, and well-being. Yet, they face increasing challenges—higher resident acuity, complex workflows, and staffing shortages. At August Health, we build tools that simplify their tasks, eliminate inefficiencies, and provide the insights they need to focus on what truly matters—caring for residents. At August, we strive to live our values each day, in every interaction with our customers and with each other. - Be responsible – leave things better than you found them - Take ownership – be decisive and take action - Be ambitious – build something great - Keep an open mindset – communicate candidly and welcome new ideas - Be humble – celebrate each others’ successes and learn from our mistakes - Stay positive – assume best intent ABOUT THE ROLE August Intelligence is the AI layer woven throughout the August Health platform. It turns the data caregivers and operators already create into timely, role-specific insight: resident summaries, assessment suggestions, voice-to-chart documentation, and more. Today, August Intelligence runs primarily through a TypeScript service that orchestrates Claude on AWS Bedrock against carefully permissioned, PHI-aware context from our backend. The work is deeply product-facing: the goal is not to build AI demos, but to ship reliable AI capabilities into real healthcare workflows. You will be the first dedicated engineer to join August Intelligence alongside its lead. This is a high-autonomy, high-ownership role. You will take AI features from idea through pilot to production, build the evaluation and observability discipline that keeps nondeterministic features trustworthy, and partner

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