Founding Engineer

We are seeking an entrepreneurial, driven engineering leader to help us scale our technical organization and redefine the future of healthcare through AI.

Why Vera

Vera Health is transforming healthcare by delivering cutting-edge AI solutions designed for healthcare providers.

• Redefining the future of healthcare: Vera Health is on a mission to revolutionize clinical decision-making by empowering physicians with AI-driven tools.
• Pioneers in generative AI for healthcare: Collaborate directly with industry leaders and leverage the latest advancements in generative AI to tackle healthcare’s toughest challenges.
• Dynamic, entrepreneurial environment: As a YC-backed company, you’ll thrive in a fast-paced, results-oriented culture focused on innovation and impact.
• Meaningful impact: Be part of a mission-driven organization improving patient outcomes and healthcare efficiency on a global scale.

Challenges

We are building systems to transform the most complex and high-stakes decision-making processes in healthcare, redefining the standard of care and directly saving lives.

• Ensuring clinical decision integrity: With patients’ lives on the line, every insight provided must meet the highest standards of precision, trust, and reliability. This requires rigorous testing and validation processes that go far beyond existing benchmarks.
• Operating beyond the edge of AI research: Addressing unsolved challenges in evaluating large language models (LLMs) for real-world clinical applications, including developing novel methodologies to assess accuracy, reliability, and safety in dynamic medical environments.
• Designing innovative clinical studies: Pioneering new frameworks for studying the use of LLMs in clinical settings, in collaboration with top academic medical centers, to measure their impact on patient outcomes and care efficiency.
• Handling the most sensitive healthcare data: Building systems that securely process and analyze protected health information while adhering to the strictest standards of compliance and ethical use.

Role

You will help develop, deploy and optimize our various AI systems.

• Collaborate with top innovators: Work directly with the founders, leaders at the largest academic medical centers, and Google.
• Tackle unsolved challenges: Address critical research and engineering problems, including developing robust evaluation methodologies, designing complex reasoning systems, and creating agentic workflows tailored to clinical decision-making.