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Senior Applied AI Engineer

Function Health

CanadaRemote1w ago
Employment
Full-time
Seniority
Senior

About the role

Company Overview:


Role:


Impact You'll Drive:

  • Put a concierge doctor in every member's pocket: an agent that reasons over a lifetime of labs, imaging, and wearable signals and tells them what to do next.
  • Turn our longitudinal health dataset into decisions, not dashboards, so members act on their health rather than just view it.
  • Make health AI that people trust with their lives: every recommendation earns its way past evaluation gates and clinician review before it reaches a member.
  • Catch what a once-a-year physical misses, surfacing the early signal across 160+ biomarkers before it becomes a diagnosis.



Key Responsibilities:

  • Architect and build stateful, graph-based agent workflows with tool use, planning, and memory.
  • Integrate LLMs and multimodal models via structured I/O (JSON Schema, Pydantic validators) and function/tool calling.
  • Build high-reliability APIs and streaming services for real-time inference, speech, and vision.
  • Own production readiness: tracing, logging, metrics, rate limiting, circuit breakers, and SLOs
  • Stand up eval pipelines: offline golden sets, LLM-as-judge with human rubrics, online A/B, and regression tests in CI.
  • Implement retrieval and memory: hybrid search, vector and graph retrieval, semantic caches, and long-horizon context.
  • Optimize cost/latency: model routing, prompt and tool selection, quantization, and KV cache/prefill strategies.
  • Partner cross-functionally to translate research into robust production systems and iterate quickly behind evaluation gates.
  • Mentor engineers through design docs and architecture decisions.


Qualifications/Skills:

  • 1+ years building agentic AI systems; 6+ years as a full-stack or ML engineer, building production backends or ML systems in Python, Go, or similar.
  • Fluency with agentic orchestration (e.g., LangGraph, PydanticAI, DSPy, LlamaIndex) and tool/function calling.
  • Experience integrating frontier LLMs and multimodal models via managed APIs or self-hosted serving.
  • Strong with API design and backend frameworks (FastAPI, Flask) and event-driven architectures.
  • Data systems expertise with PostgreSQL, including token streaming and throughput tuning.
  • Retrieval and memory: vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus), hybrid search, and graph/knowledge storage.
  • Production evals: LLM-as-judge, human-in-the-loop, rubric design, and CI-integrated regression tests.
  • Observability and SRE: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, structured logs, SLOs, dashboards, and on-call triage.
  • Cloud-native delivery: Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, GPU scheduling/autoscaling on AWS or GCP.
  • CI/CD proficiency with GitHub Actions and test automation for prompts, tools, and agents.
  • Clear, concise communication and high ownership in fast-paced environments.


Nice to Haves:

  • Real-time multimodal systems: streaming ASR, low-latency TTS, WebRTC, and vision pipelines.
  • RAG expertise beyond basics: Graph RAG, multi-hop retrieval, sub-agents, query planning, and freshness policies.
  • Safety and governance: policy-as-code, red-teaming, PII handling, audit logs, and role-based tool authorization.
  • Regulated data experience (HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR) and data residency controls.
  • Personalization at inference time, long-term memory agents, session state, and episodic memory stores.
  • Experience with consumer-scale AI apps, high-traffic systems, or on-device/edge acceleration (WebGPU).

To be a strong fit, you also need:

  • Ruthless Prioritization:
    • We don’t let perfect get in the way of progress.
    • We move quickly to drive value, not perfection.
    • We prioritize what drives impact.
    • We never compromise on standards of excellence.
  • Member-First, Always:
    • We design and deliver like we’re caring for someone we love.
    • We create calendar, actionable, human experience.
    • We prioritize responsiveness, peace of mind, and outcomes.
    • We empower members with truth, clarity, and care.
  • One Team, Moving Fast:
    • We are aligned in purpose, prioritization, and speed.
    • We gather diverse perspectives to make informed decisions.
    • We clear paths for each other and move fast together.
    • We communicate clearly and respectfully, rallying around shared goals.
  • Radical Ownership, Relentless Execution:
    • We don’t just ship– we own outcomes and drive results.
    • We act with urgency and precision
    • We anticipate, initiate, and follow through.
    • We meet challenges with grit and pragmatism.
    • We embrace new tech to deliver better outcomes.
  • Mission Over Ego:
    • We are ruthlessly aligned to our mission - and leave ego at the door.
    • We disagree and commit.
    • We don't tolerate politics or withholding information.
    • We operate with honesty, transparency, and respect.
  • Sustained Integrity in Every Detail:
    • We earn trust by obsessing over accuracy, quality, and clarity in everything we do.
    • We prioritize clinical precision - data must be right.
    • We sweat the details because outcomes depend on them.


Why You'll Love Working With Us:

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