[Remote] Applied AI Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cadence is a clinical AI company focused on providing continuous care for older adults with chronic conditions. They are seeking an Applied AI Engineer to design and implement production agents that utilize real-time clinical data to enhance patient care and support clinicians in their decision-making processes.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy clinical AI agents that reason over patient context, invoke tools, and generate care recommendations
- Own reliability, observability, and cost efficiency of LLM-powered workflows at scale
- Build and optimize RAG pipelines over clinical knowledge bases, treatment protocols, and real-time patient data
- Develop evaluation frameworks: offline benchmarks, safety tests, regression suites, and LLM-as-judge pipelines wired into CI/CD
- Design multi-step agent orchestration: planning, memory, tool use, error recovery, and human-in-the-loop escalation paths
- Collaborate with clinical, product, and engineering teams to translate patient care needs into AI system design
- Stay at the forefront of AI and engineering best practices, continuously pushing the team to raise the bar on quality, performance, and architecture
Skills
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 3+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years building AI/ML-powered systems in production
- Experience in a high-growth, fast-paced environment with end-to-end ownership from design through production
- Hands-on experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source models) including prompt engineering, tool use / function calling, and structured outputs
- Experience building RAG systems: embeddings, vector stores, retrieval optimization, and grounding
- Experience with agent frameworks or orchestration patterns (tool calling, planners, multi-agent coordination)
- Experience with agent frameworks or orchestration patterns (tool calling, planners, multi-agent coordination)
- Fine-tuning experience (SFT, RLHF, LoRA) on domain-specific tasks
- Healthcare or regulated-industry experience (HIPAA, SOC 2, clinical data handling)
Benefits
- Competitive pay & equity*
- Fully remote
- Comprehensive health coverage: Medical, dental & vision
- Paid time off
- 401k plan + matching
- Paid parental leave
- Home office stipend
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