engineering
Posted Mar 9Software Engineer, Agent - Healthcare
at Sierra
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Requirements
- ABOUT US At Sierra, we’re creating a platform to help businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI.
- Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook.
- Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens.
- Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.
- We partner with leading health plans, providers, and healthcare platforms to deliver AI agents that handle some of the most sensitive and high stakes conversations in any industry.
- We're proud that our work with partners like Sutter Health, Stellarus, and R1 RCM is demonstrating what's possible when conversational AI truly understands context and nuance. - Join us to transform the patient
- experience across the healthcare system—and help build technology that makes care more accessible, more human and more affordable for everyone.
- WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design and deliver production-grade AI agents for healthcare: You'll build and ship highly performant, reliable, and empathetic AI agents that handle sensitive patient and member interactions.
- You'll be responsible for building, tuning, and evolving AI agents in production environments serving healthcare payers, providers, and platforms.
- - Partner with healthcare leaders: You'll work directly with executives and technical teams at health plans, provider networks, and healthcare technology companies to understand their most pressing challenges - from managing high call volumes to reducing administrative burden and building AI agents that transform how they operate at scale.
- - Navigate healthcare complexity: You’ll develop deep expertise in healthcare systems and workflows, including integrations across EHR and patient access platforms, payer and provider operations, and common healthcare data and interoperability standards.
- Experience in healthcare technology, health IT or working with healthcare organizations - Familiarity with healthcare systems: Major EHR ecosystems (e.g., Epic, Cerner/Oracle Health, athenahealth); X12 EDI transactions and clearinghouse workflows; scheduling/patient access, practice management, and contact center platforms. - Understanding of healthcare compliance
- Experience building or deploying AI/LLM systems in production. - Have been a founder or founding engineer—you know what it means to balance craft, ownership, and speed. - Familiarity with tools that power today's AI agents: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering. - Prior