Lead Software Engineer - Applied AI

About Sprinter Health

Sprinter Health is rebuilding healthcare delivery from the ground up. Our mission: bring high-quality, preventive care to the people who need it most—directly in their homes.

We started in 2021 with a bold idea: to untether care from the clinic using smart logistics, scalable clinical operations, and real-time data. In just a few years, we’ve:

Since launching in 2021, we've:

👥 Served 60,000+ patients

🚀 Grown 6x in 2024, forecasting $45M revenue in 2025

🌍 Expanded to cover 60%+ of the U.S. population

🏥 Earned the trust of 6 of the 10 largest U.S. health plans

🏦 Raised $70M+ from top-tier investors like a16z, General Catalyst, GV, and Accel

The Role

We’re launching a new Automated Intelligence team focused on integrating AI into every layer of our care model—from clinical summaries and risk predictions to patient conversations and workflow agents. We’re looking for an experienced Software Engineer who’s excited to build from scratch, move fast, and tackle meaningful technical challenges in service of better patient outcomes.

What You’ll Build

This is a 0→1 team. You’ll have real ownership over the systems and features you ship, with opportunities to work across ML infrastructure, backend systems, and product UX. Projects might include:

🧠 Clinical summarization: Use LLMs to generate pre-visit briefs for our providers

📈 Patient risk prediction: Forecast engagement and clinical outcomes from messy health data

🗣️ AI-powered coordination: Build voice assistants to reduce ops burden and improve patient experience

🧩 Workflow orchestration: Design agent-based systems to streamline visit planning and follow-ups

This isn’t an R&D role—we’re focused on production impact and measurable outcomes.

Who You Are

You’ve built and shipped software end-to-end, ideally in fast-paced environments

You’ve worked with AI/ML systems (LLMs, RAG, embeddings, or similar)

You’re energized by ambiguity and quick feedback loops

You love building things that make a real-world difference

You’re thoughtful about tradeoffs, systems design, and scaling

Bonus: You’ve worked with healthcare data (FHIR, HL7, clinical notes, etc)—but it’s not a must.

Why Sprinter

Build what matters: We serve patients who are often forgotten by the system

Real autonomy: No red tape. You’ll own decisions and ship quickly

Compound leverage: Our platform spans logistics, clinical ops, and data—AI sits at the center

Execution > optics: We care about results, not resumes

Healthy fundamentals: Strong business model, long runway, real revenue growth

Software Engineering

• At least 3 years of full-stack or backend-focused experience
• Proficiency in Python or JavaScript/TypeScript

AI Experience

• At least 3+ years of professional experience working with LLMs
• Prompt engineering / evaluation / management
• Summarization of large document sets
• Embedding-based search
• RAG applications
• Audio generation and conversational AI
• Agentic applications

Technologies

• Python and JS/TS
• LangChain / LangGraph
• ElasticSearch, pgvector, Pinecone, and other vector databases

The Fun Stuff

• Free lunch every day and fully-stocked micro-kitchen and coffee/tea bar
• Team offsites, game hours, tech talks, and design sprints
• Health insurance benefits (PPO / HMO / HSA, 100% of family premiums paid)
• Dental / vision / wellness benefits
• 401k matching
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible work-from-home policy for work/life balance (3 days in-office, accommodation for occasional WFH days)
• Relocation assistance
• Generous parental leave (4 months for the birthing parent, 2 months for a partner, 100% paid)

Sprinter Health is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or other protected classes.

If you're looking for a career that offers opportunities for growth, continual development, professional challenge and the chance to make a real difference in the lives of people, apply today!

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