Senior Software Engineer, Agentic AI

$175K - $210K Remote Senior AI Software Engineer

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Skills & Technologies

Python

About This Role

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At Curai, we believe that access to high-quality healthcare is a fundamental human right, not a privilege. Our mission is to radically transform healthcare delivery by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and clinical expertise to make care more affordable, accessible, and effective for everyone. Patients interact with advanced AI systems at every step of their care and follow-up. Licensed physicians review each case with the patient for the clinical decision in our integrated virtual clinic.

We ground our approach in rigorous research, continuous learning, and a deep commitment to clinical integrity. We focus on making a real impact: improving health outcomes, expanding access to care, and setting new standards for what trustworthy, patient-centered healthcare is. Read some of our latest publications.

About the Senior Software Engineer, Agentic AI role

We are hiring a Full-Stack Senior Software Engineer across a range of seniority levels to push the frontier of agentic / applied AI in healthcare. As a member of the technical staff on the artificial intelligence engineering team, you will design, build, and ship ML and LLM systems (agentic AI workflows) that directly shape how clinicians and patients interact with our platform. You will work end-to-end: framing the problem, exploring data, training and evaluating models, productionizing inference, and measuring real-world clinical and product impact. The bar is high and the surface area is large; we are looking for engineers who want significant ownership and are excited to operate where research meets production.

What You'll Do

  • Lead the technical execution of complex AI initiatives, owning the design and delivery of solutions within a product or technical domain while partnering with senior engineers on broader architectural direction.
  • Design, build, train, evaluate and improve advanced machine learning and LLM-based systems for patient and provider-facing products (e.g., conversational AI, personalization, user understanding, clinical decision support, chronic care management).
  • Own problems end-to-end: scope the problem with clinicians and product partners, build datasets and evaluations, iterate on modeling, and ship to production with the right monitoring and guardrails.
  • Develop robust evaluation frameworks — offline benchmarks, human-in-the-loop review, online experiments — that give us confidence our models are safe, accurate, and improving over time.
  • Build and improve the platform that lets the team move quickly: data pipelines, training and inference infrastructure, prompt and model management, and tooling for clinical reviewers.
  • Partner closely with clinicians, product, and engineering to translate medical and operational requirements into ML problems and ship measurable improvements to patient and clinician experience.
  • Set technical direction for your area, mentor other engineers, and raise the bar on engineering and scientific rigor. The scope of leadership scales with seniority.
  • Stay close to the literature and the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem; bring back what is most useful for our patients and our team.

What You'll Bring

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Math, or other related technical degree
  • 3+ years of hands-on engineering experience with 1+ year building and deploying machine learning systems including generative AI (LLMS), and a clear track record of impact.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to ship reliable, well-tested code in Python (or a comparable language) in a production environment.
  • Practical understanding of modern LLM techniques: prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, fine-tuning, evaluation, and the trade-offs between them.
  • Comfortability working with messy, real-world data and designing evaluations to know whether a system is actually working.
  • Strong written and verbal communication; ability to cross-collaborate with clinicians, product managers, and engineers across disciplines.
  • A bias toward action and ownership: you can take an ambiguous problem, drive it to a result, and bring others along.
  • Care for the mission. You want your work to translate into better health outcomes for real patients.

Nice to Have

  • Experience applying ML or LLMs in healthcare, life sciences, or another regulated, high-stakes domain.
  • Experience with clinical NLP, medical knowledge representation, or working with electronic health record data.
  • Experience building agentic systems, tool-using LLMs, in production.
  • Experience scaling ML infrastructure — training pipelines, distributed inference, evaluation platforms — for a small, fast-moving team.
  • Track record of technical leadership: setting direction across teams, mentoring engineers, or publishing influential work.

What We Offer

  • High ownership work on problems that matter, with a tight feedback loop from real clinicians and patients.
  • A small, senior team where your work shows up in the product quickly.
  • Competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and comprehensive benefits.
  • Remote-first, flexible work environment across the U.S.

Compensation: $175,000 - $210,000/year

The pay range listed for this position reflects what Curai Health reasonably and in good faith expects to pay at the time of posting. Actual base salary will depend on a variety of factors, including your qualifications and years of relevant experience.

Culture: A mission-driven team of talented colleagues who are committed to living our values, collaborating closely, and driving meaningful impact in healthcare.

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible spending plans
  • Generous and flexible Paid Time Off (PTO), floating holidays, and parental leave
  • 401k plan with employer matching
  • 100% remote — work from home

Work Location Requirement: This is a remote position. Employees must perform all work physically within the country they reside in. International work is not permitted during scheduled work hours.

Work Environment: This is a remote position and may be “on camera” at any time. Employees will work from a home office, requiring reliable internet connectivity and a secure, private workspace.

Curai Health is an equal opportunity employer and is deeply committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. In keeping with our beliefs and values, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. To promote an equitable and bias-free workplace, we set competitive compensation packages for each position and do not negotiate on our offers. We are looking for mission-driven teammates who embody our core values and appreciate our transparent approach.

Beware of job scam fraudsters! Our company uses @curai.com email addresses exclusively. We do not conduct interviews via text or instant message and we do not ask candidates to download software, to purchase equipment through us, or to provide sensitive personally identifiable information such as bank account or social security numbers. If you have been contacted by someone claiming to be from Curai from a different domain about a job offer, please report it as potential job fraud to law enforcement and contact us at [email protected]*.*

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Salary Context

This $175K-$210K range is above the median for AI Software Engineer roles in our dataset (median: $192K across 146 roles with salary data).

Role Details

Company Curai Health
Title Senior Software Engineer, Agentic AI
Location Remote, US
Category AI Software Engineer
Experience Senior
Salary $175K - $210K
Remote Yes

About This Role

AI Software Engineers build the applications and systems that AI models run inside. They own the API layers, data pipelines, frontend integrations, and infrastructure that turn a model into a product users interact with. Every AI company needs engineers who can build the software around the AI.

The challenge is building reliable systems around inherently unreliable components. Models are probabilistic. They'll give different answers to the same question. They hallucinate. They're slow. They're expensive. Your job is to build an application layer that handles all of this gracefully while delivering a product that users trust and enjoy.

Across the 8,943 AI roles we're tracking, AI Software Engineer positions make up 4% of the market. At Curai Health, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.

AI Software Engineer roles are among the most numerous in the AI job market. Every company deploying AI needs software engineers who understand AI integration patterns. The demand is broad, spanning startups to enterprises, across every industry adopting AI capabilities.

What the Work Looks Like

A typical week includes: building API endpoints that serve model inference with caching and fallback logic, designing the data pipeline that feeds context to a RAG system, implementing streaming responses in the frontend, debugging a race condition in the async inference pipeline, and optimizing database queries for the vector search layer. It's full-stack engineering with AI at the center.

AI Software Engineer roles are among the most numerous in the AI job market. Every company deploying AI needs software engineers who understand AI integration patterns. The demand is broad, spanning startups to enterprises, across every industry adopting AI capabilities.

Skills Required

Python (16% of roles)

Full-stack engineering skills with AI integration experience. Python and TypeScript are the most common requirements. You'll need to understand API design, database architecture, and how to build reliable systems around probabilistic outputs. Experience with streaming, async processing, and caching patterns is increasingly important as real-time AI applications proliferate.

Knowledge of vector databases, embedding APIs, and LLM integration patterns (function calling, structured outputs, retry logic) differentiates AI software engineers from general software engineers. Understanding cost optimization (caching strategies, model routing, batched inference) is valuable since inference costs can dominate application economics.

Strong postings describe the product you'll be building, the AI integration patterns you'll work with, and the scale requirements. Look for companies that have existing AI features and need engineers to improve and expand them, not companies that are 'planning to add AI' someday.

Compensation Benchmarks

AI Software Engineer roles pay a median of $220,000 based on 1,448 positions with disclosed compensation. Senior-level AI roles across all categories have a median of $228,700. This role's midpoint ($192K) sits 12% below the category median. Disclosed range: $175K to $210K.

Across all AI roles, the market median is $213,380. Top-quartile compensation starts at $264,148. The 90th percentile reaches $319,310. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Safety ($253,100) and Research Engineer ($252,000). By seniority level: Entry: $110,408; Mid: $193,200; Senior: $228,700; Director: $272,250; VP: $235,000.

Curai Health AI Hiring

Curai Health has 1 open AI role right now. They're hiring across AI Software Engineer. Based in Remote, US. Compensation range: $210K - $210K.

Remote Work Context

Remote AI roles pay a median of $185,906 across 2,124 positions. About 6% of all AI roles offer remote work.

Career Path

Common paths into AI Software Engineer roles include Software Engineer, Full-Stack Developer, Backend Engineer.

From here, career progression typically leads toward Staff Engineer, AI Architect, Engineering Manager.

If you're a software engineer, you're already 80% there. Learn the AI integration patterns: RAG, streaming inference, function calling, structured outputs. Build a project that demonstrates you can wrap an AI model in a production-quality application with proper error handling, caching, and user experience. That's the portfolio piece that gets you hired.

What to Expect in Interviews

Technical screens look like standard software engineering interviews with an AI twist. Expect system design questions about building reliable applications around probabilistic models: handling streaming responses, implementing retry logic for API failures, and designing caching strategies for LLM outputs. Coding rounds test standard algorithms plus practical integration patterns like async processing and rate limiting.

When evaluating opportunities: Strong postings describe the product you'll be building, the AI integration patterns you'll work with, and the scale requirements. Look for companies that have existing AI features and need engineers to improve and expand them, not companies that are 'planning to add AI' someday.

AI Hiring Overview

The AI job market has 8,943 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 175 entry-level, 4,132 mid-level, 3,268 senior, and 1,368 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 6% of the market (521 positions). The remaining 8,351 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.

The market median for AI roles is $213,380. Top-quartile compensation starts at $264,148. The 90th percentile reaches $319,310. Highest-paying categories: AI Safety ($253,100 median, 57 roles); Research Engineer ($252,000 median, 419 roles); AI Engineering Manager ($251,622 median, 51 roles).

AI Software Engineer roles are among the most numerous in the AI job market. Every company deploying AI needs software engineers who understand AI integration patterns. The demand is broad, spanning startups to enterprises, across every industry adopting AI capabilities.

The AI Job Market Today

The AI job market spans 8,943 open positions across 16 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (6,739), AI Product Manager (403), AI Software Engineer (402). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.

The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (175) are outnumbered by mid-level (4,132) and senior (3,268) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 1,368 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.

Remote work availability sits at 6% of all AI roles (521 positions), with 8,351 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.

AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $213,380. Top-quartile roles start at $264,148, and the 90th percentile reaches $319,310. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.

Category matters for compensation. AI Safety roles lead at $253,100 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $141,440. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.

The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Python (1,422 postings), Aws (808 postings), Azure (638 postings), Rag (555 postings), Gcp (457 postings), Pytorch (433 postings), Claude (341 postings), Kubernetes (337 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.

Frequently Asked Questions

Based on 1,448 roles with disclosed compensation, the median salary for AI Software Engineer positions is $220,000. Actual compensation varies by seniority, location, and company stage.
Full-stack engineering skills with AI integration experience. Python and TypeScript are the most common requirements. You'll need to understand API design, database architecture, and how to build reliable systems around probabilistic outputs. Experience with streaming, async processing, and caching patterns is increasingly important as real-time AI applications proliferate.
About 6% of the 8,943 AI roles we track offer remote work. Remote availability varies by company and seniority level, with senior and leadership roles more likely to offer location flexibility.
Curai Health is among the companies actively hiring for AI and ML talent. Check our company profiles for detailed breakdowns of open roles, salary ranges, and hiring trends.
Common next steps from AI Software Engineer positions include Staff Engineer, AI Architect, Engineering Manager. Progression depends on whether you lean toward technical depth, people management, or product strategy.

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