Job Description
About AmigoAmigo partners with healthcare organizations to deploy robust AI infrastructure that directly serves patients and providers. Our agents handle clinical workflows and patient engagement across the entire journey: pre-visit intake, care navigation, post-visit care plans, patient monitoring, and more.We're fresh off our Series A backed by Tier 1 investors like Madrona, General Catalyst, and Optum Ventures. Our work is validated with leading academic medical institutions. Our agents have reached 3M+ patient encounters and are on track to 10x this year.About this roleThe Applied AI Engineer role at Amigo is a launchpad. You'll ship production AI agents end-to-end â writing the code, shaping product decisions, and sitting with customers as they deploy â and in doing so, you'll build the exact skill set that opens doors to the next chapter of your career at Amigo.This role is designed to help you grow into other parts of the company. Applied AI Engineers move into one of four paths within 6â12 months:Applied AI: stay in the org; go deeper on agent architecture, verification frameworks, and the hardest customer problems; become a technical leader on the applied teamProduct Management: if you gravitate toward roadmap, discovery, and shaping what we build nextSales Engineering: if you thrive in pre-sales, technical storytelling, and closing enterprise dealsSoftware Engineering: if you want to go deeper on platform, infrastructure, and core systemsYou won't have to guess which fits. This role will actively help you explore each path, give you projects that stretch in those directions, and sponsor the internal transition when you're ready. People who want to stay on the applied side long-term can do that too â but this role is explicitly built so you don't have to.What you'll doImplement context graphs that enable agents to select the right reasoning mode (lookup, pattern recognition, exploration) based on problem complexityBuild and optimize agent configurations, including static personas, dynamic behaviors, and functional memory systemsDesign bounded Operational Patient Domains (OPDs) with explicit inclusions, exclusions, capabilities, and escalation rulesImplement verification loops and simulation-based testing to validate agent performance against customer KPIsWrite Python code for tool integrations and API orchestration within customer environmentsBuild evaluation suites that gate deployments using customer-specific success metricsCollaborate with domain experts through structured interviews to capture reasoning patterns and clinical protocolsSupport technical power users through git-based workflows for rapid iterationImplement adversarial testing to systematically identify and prevent failure modesEnsure agents maintain audit-ready provenance with version pinning and evidence linksContribute to systematizing implementation patterns across different problem domainsWhat we're looking for2+ years of production software engineering experienceStrong Python skills including proper use of typing, and experience building highly reliable systems that interact with external APIs (schema design, retry strategies, error propagation)Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and building on AI platformsAbility to implement systems with strict reliability requirementsUnderstanding of testing and verification methodologiesExperience working directly with customers or stakeholders to deliver technical solutionsFamiliarity with git workflows and collaborative developmentStrong debugging and problem-solving skills for complex systemsAbility to balance theoretical concepts with practical implementation constraintsClear technical communication for both engineering and non-technical audiencesNice to haveExperience in regulated industries (healthcare, finance, legal)Background with simulation, synthetic data, or evaluation frameworksUnderstanding of distributed systems and service-oriented architecturesExperience with observability and monitoring in production environmentsFamiliarity with compliance requirements (HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR) BenefitsHealth & WellnessComprehensive health, dental, and vision insuranceDaily catered lunch and dinnerMental health support and wellness coachingFlexible wellness stipend for fitness, therapy, or personal growthGrowth & DevelopmentAnnual learning budget for courses, books, or conferencesConference attendance budget for professional developmentAnnual team offsiteAcademic collaboration opportunitiesUnlimited PTOOur Core ValuesPatients Win, We WinIf patients aren't getting better care, we haven't earned the right to scale. Every internal decision gets pressure-tested: does this make patients' lives better? If we can't draw the line, we question why we're doing it.High Standards, High CareWe hold a high bar for the team because patients are counting on us to get this right. But high standards only work with genuine investment in each other. You can take risks, admit mistakes, and challenge ideasânot despite our standards, but because of them.Thoughtful UrgencyWe move fast by default, but speed without judgment is recklessness. The discipline is knowing which decisions are reversible vs. not. In healthcare AI, the companies that win will be fast everywhere they can be and careful everywhere they must be. We build the muscle to do both.Intensely MeasuredWe instrument patient outcomes, provider ROI, system performance, and clinical accuracy. But data without action is surveillance. Every metric should have an owner, a threshold, and a response plan. If we're measuring something but never acting on it, we stop measuring it.Who Builds With UsLow ego: Politics and territory don't interest you. The best ideas win, regardless of who has them.Direct: You say the hard thing, challenge ideas openly, and commit fully once decided.High agency: You thrive on trust rather than instruction. When you see something is broken, you fix it. You donât file tickets and wait for someone else.Bar of excellence: You hold yourself to a bar most people wouldn't, and you want teammates who do the same.Skeptical: You push back on rules that donât make sense and question assumptions that havenât earned their place.Please mention the word **READABLE** and tag RODguMTk4Ljk5LjE0Mw== when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RODguMTk4Ljk5LjE0Mw==). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.