Agent Deployment Engineer (Residency Program)

Department: Product and Engineering

Location: Palo Alto

Employment Type: FullTime

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

We're seeking a Agent Deployment Engineer to join our collaborative team of engineers, scientists, and healthcare professionals working on transformative AI solutions. In this role, you'll help develop and maintain our conversation layer using a mix of software and prompting skills to allow our AI agent facilitate autonomous conversations.

What You’ll Do

• Develop complex prompts in our SOTA conversation planning layer to enable complex agentic model workflows

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Software Engineers and Clinicians to create fully autonomous, clinical conversations.

• Write, configure and iterate on prompts to create engaging, patient-oriented conversations

• Use advanced prompting techniques to develop and optimize prompts for language models to improve model performance, clinical safety, and patient experience.

• Conduct experiments and analyze outcomes of model outputs to refine and iterate on prompt strategies.

What You Bring

Must-Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent coursework/projects).

• 2+ years industry experience

• Experience with Python

• Experience with LLM prompting (chatGPT, Claude, etc) through professional or personal use

• Exposure to working with databases and building simple RESTful APIs.

• Strong problem-solving mindset and eagerness to learn new technologies.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with personal or academic projects involving backend development.

• Basic understanding of AI/ML concepts or a desire to learn about them.

• Knowledge of modern web frameworks (e.g., Flask, Django, or Spring Boot).

• Awareness of data privacy and security best practices, especially in regulated environments.

Please be aware of recruitment scams impersonating Hippocratic AI. All recruiting communication will come from @hippocraticai.com email addresses. We will never request payment or sensitive personal information during the hiring process.

Please be aware of recruitment scams impersonating Hippocratic AI. All recruiting communication will come from @hippocraticai.com email addresses. We will never request payment or sensitive personal information during the hiring process.