Hippocratic AI
Healthcare
SeniorStaffEngineer,DeveloperInfrastructure&Experience
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“Senior Staff Engineer, Developer Infrastructure & Experience at Hippocratic AI. Skills: Developer Infrastructure, Developer Experience, CI/CD, Production Engineering. Define engineering standards. Uphold best practices”
What You'll Achieve.
Ship with confidence; Reliable, testable, incrementally deployable software; Codebase comprehensible and testable by humans; Frequent, safe releases possible; Software shipped for years to come; Set technical bar for organization; Bring others along; Define what 'done' means; Make team measurably faster; Maintain engineering rigor; Robust, maintainable, and safe to operate systems; Reliability directly impacts patient outcomes
Industry & Context.
Identify structural problems
Expected to be in our Palo Alto office five days a week
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
BS in Computer Science or equivalent, 12+ years of software engineering experience with production ownership at scale across multiple organizations, Proven track record across multiple technology generations with clear, transferable judgment, Deep backend fluency in Python, Go, or comfortable across the full stack, Command of software design: modularity, testability, separation of concerns, dependency inversion, Hands-on CI/CD ownership — building, operating, and improving pipelines in production, Production experience with feature flags, canary deployments, blue/green, and progressive rollouts, Demonstrated impact improving developer experience and internal tooling, Fluency with AI-assisted development tools — Copilot, LLM-based code generation, automated testing, Communicator across engineering, product, and clinical stakeholders, Committed to software safety, engineering rigor, and patient-centered outcomes
Nice to Have
Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or a regulated, safety-critical industry, Familiarity with ML infrastructure, model serving, or LLM evaluation pipelines, Experience building engineering culture at a high-growth startup, Background in platform engineering or DevEx, Hands-on observability experience: structured logging, distributed tracing, SLO design
What You'll Do.
Define engineering standards
Uphold best practices
Lead system design discussions
Own production readiness
Build and ship features
Define what 'done' means
Architect for testability
Architect for modularity
Champion clean interfaces
Champion dependency inversion
Own release infrastructure
Design staged rollout strategies
Implement staged rollout strategies
Establish feature flag practices
Steward feature flag practices
Build infrastructure for gradual rollouts
Multiply developer velocity
Operate in AI-assisted development environment
Use AI-powered coding tools
Use automated test generation
Use LLM-assisted debugging
Help team adopt workflows
Serve as technical voice
Translate between stakeholders
Turn ambiguous requirements into systems
Treat patient safety as engineering concern
Bring gravity to architectural decisions
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner directly with ML researchers; Partner with clinical advisors; Partner with product leaders; Communicate across engineering, product, and clinical stakeholders; Translate between ML researchers, clinical advisors, and product managers
Communication Scope
Communicator across engineering, product, and clinical stakeholders
Full Job Description
ABOUT US Hippocratic AI is the leading generative AI company in healthcare. We have the only system that can have safe, autonomous, clinical conversations with patients. We have trained our own LLMs as part of our Polaris constellation, resulting in a system with over 99.9% accuracy. WHY JOIN OUR TEAM Reinvent healthcare with AI that puts safety first. We’re building the world’s first healthcare-only, safety-focused LLM — a breakthrough platform designed to transform patient outcomes at a global scale. This is category creation. Work with the people shaping the future. Hippocratic AI was co-founded by CEO Munjal Shah and a team of physicians, hospital leaders, AI pioneers, and researchers from institutions like El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and NVIDIA. Backed by the world’s leading healthcare and AI investors. We recently raised a $126M Series C at a $3.5B valuation, led by Avenir Growth, bringing total funding to $404M with participation from CapitalG, General Catalyst, a16z, Kleiner Perkins, Premji Invest, UHS, Cincinnati Children’s, WellSpan Health, John Doerr, Rick Klausner, and others. Build alongside the best in healthcare and AI. Join experts who’ve spent their careers improving care, advancing science, and building world-changing technologies — ensuring our platform is powerful, trusted, and truly transformative. LOCATION REQUIREMENT We believe the best ideas happen together. To support fast collaboration and a strong team culture, this role is expected to be in our Palo Alto office five days a week, unless otherwise specified. ABOUT THE ROLE As a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Hippocratic AI, you’ll define the engineering standards, CI/CD infrastructure, and developer platform that let a safety-critical healthcare AI company ship with confidence. You’ll architect the foundational systems that power reliable, testable, and incrementally deployable software across every product and p
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