About the company
Valerie Health sits at the intersection of healthcare and AI, helping independent practices modernize patient and provider communication interfaces, provide better care, and drive operational efficiencies.
Valerie Health is backed by General Catalyst, Primary Ventures, BoxGroup, and leading angels including the founders of One Medical and Oscar.
Our founders include Pete Shalek, who started and sold a Thrive-backed mental health startup, and Nitin Joshi, who has helped bootstrap and scale several 0–1 and 1–100 businesses, including UberEats, Uber Health, and Stripe Connect.
About the role
As a founding engineer, you will get a front seat into building a world-class startup. You will help shape the technical foundation of Valerie Health, and drive both our product and business from inception to scale. You will play a lead role in designing and implementing a robust backend infrastructure, building AI models across various modalities and use-cases (OCR, Voice, LLM, RPA) with RLHF, and creating delightful user experiences.
What you’ll do
Collaborate closely with the rest of the team to shape product, business, and company direction. Help define and shape the culture of the company.
Build a production-ready AI infrastructure, integrating and fine-tuning models across voice, text, and desktop agents. Build a reinforcement learning system with internal and external humans in the loop.
Own end to end product surface areas that serve external and internal users. Build deeply empathetic and polished user experiences that raise the bar across the industry.
Design, build and scale a HIPAA-compliant backend infrastructure that’s highly secure with strong availability and performance.
About you
Experience:
2 - 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong background in computer science.
Previous experience in big tech or startups is a plus.
Demonstrated experience in building end-to-end products.
Attributes:
User-Focus: Deep empathy for users, with the ability to translate their needs into product features and prioritize effectively.
Work as Craft: Interest in producing elegant, polished, and high-performance work, finding pride and joy in the details.
Growth Mindset: Eagerness to learn new approaches, seek feedback, and continually improve skill sets.
Strong Communicator: Clear and succinct in both written and verbal communication, capable of adjusting style for different audiences and conveying technical topics to non-technical stakeholders.
Self-Starter & Adaptable: Proactively own projects from inception to completion, identify challenges, and offer solutions, thriving in a dynamic work environment.
Details
The compensation range for this position is between $150,000-$200,000 annually + equity and benefits
Must be able to work at least three days a week in our San Francisco office.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.