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title: 'Founding AI Engineer at Nolla Health'
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# Founding AI Engineer at Nolla Health

- **Company:** Nolla Health
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $160k–$220k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nollahealth/5e714a76-b948-4a7a-a18f-4a6f16e4af37

## Job description

## THE MISSION

Nolla is building AI doctors so that top-quality healthcare is accessible to everyone. Nolla Skin is the #1 medical skincare treatment app in the U.S. App Store. We've treated thousands of acne patients in the U.S., scanned 1% of Norway's population for skin cancer, and our in-house clinical models are state of the art on clinical benchmarks. We just launched NollaMD, our urgent care app, and we're building dedicated specialty apps for conditions like birth control and allergies. We raised a $4.5M seed from General Catalyst.

## THE ROLE

This is an AI engineering role, not an ML engineering role. You won't be training models (unless you want to). You will wire LLMs and other custom models into production systems where the cost of getting it wrong is high, build the eval infrastructure that tells us when we're getting it right, and ship the backend surface area that keeps the product moving. You'll work directly with the founding team and your work reaches patients immediately.

## WHAT YOU'LL BUILD

App Backends

- Build and maintain backends for our existing apps, plus stand up new ones as we launch new specialty apps
- Own backend systems end to end, from schema design to production

Clinician Tooling

- Build the clinician-facing dashboards and tooling our medical team uses to review AI output
- Develop internal tools that clinical ops and physicians use daily

AI Systems

- Work on prompts, tool calling, and inference optimization for the AI features in our apps
- Build evals and observability that give us confidence in what we deploy. You'll define what "good" looks like for our AI systems
- Implement abstention, routing, and fallback strategies that favor safety and correctness

Jack-of-all-Trades Surface Area

- Support a wide range of work: payments, user flows, clinical infra, model deployment
- Help architect systems that support rapid product expansion: new verticals, new states, new clinical modalities

## WHAT YOU BRING

- 4+ years of backend, platform, or product engineering experience
- You ship your own things. You have a portfolio: side projects, open source, apps you launched
- You've worked on small teams and built things from zero
- Comfortable with the AI engineering toolkit: prompts, evals, tool calling, RAG, common LLM APIs. You have opinions on when each tool is the right one
- Strong product instincts: you don't need a PM to tell you what to build, you can scope and ship
- Strong TypeScript and Python

## BONUS POINTS

- Regulated industry experience (healthcare, fintech)
- Comfortable with infra and can deploy what you build (Docker, CI/CD, etc.)
- Familiarity with FHIR, HL7, or healthcare data standards
- Experience with observability stacks: Langfuse, Sentry, or similar
- Prior work in clinical AI, digital health, or other regulated domains

## STACK

TypeScript · Python · Node.js · PostgreSQL · AWS · OpenAI / Anthropic APIs · EMR systems · Eval frameworks

## ROLE LOGISTICS, COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

- Role Type: Engineering
- Salary: $160,000-$220,000, based on experience
- Job Type: Full-time
- Work Setup: In-person, New York City
- Equity: Meaningful equity, commensurate with experience
- Health Insurance: Medical, dental, and vision
- HSA/FSA: Eligible
- Time Off: Flexible, unlimited vacation
- Additional Perks: Meal stipends, team retreats
- Work Hours: Flexible but demanding. We're building something that matters
- Growth: Founding team members step into expanded roles as we scale

## About Nolla Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nolla Health is an AI-powered skin health platform that combines proprietary AI models with clinician oversight to provide personalized, asynchronous treatment plans for skin conditions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Luis Wenus (CEO) and Luis R. Soenksen (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthtech / AI-powered dermatology and skincare
- **Target customers**: B2C – consumers seeking treatment for acne, redness, wrinkles, and other skin concerns
- **Mission statement**: “Care should be continuous and easy to navigate” – building a system that helps people understand what’s going on and what to do next [nollahealth.com](https://www.nollahealth.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **Nolla Skin (formerly Nolla Acne)**: A mobile app (iOS) that offers daily AI-powered face scans, clinician-reviewed treatment plans, and prescription medication delivery. Subscription-based model. Rated #1 Skin Treatment app on the App Store with 7,000+ reviews and a 4.9-star rating [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nolla-health).
- **Nolla MD**: Asynchronous clinician chat service for general health concerns. A licensed U.S. provider reviews the case and responds via message for $39. Currently in development for broader specialty care [nollahealth.com](https://www.nollahealth.com/).
- **Medical Skincare (in development)**: A skincare app that adapts to the user’s changing needs, with personalized product recommendations [nollahealth.com](https://www.nollahealth.com/).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $4.5M (Seed round, October 2025) led by General Catalyst [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nolla-health)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: General Catalyst (lead), plus two other unnamed investors
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Expanded from acne-only to full skincare (Nolla Skin) in May 2026 [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nolla-health)
  - Monthly website traffic of ~17,800 visits, growing 1.7% month-over-month [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nolla-health)
  - Strong App Store traction: #1 Skin Treatment app, 4.9 stars, 7,000+ reviews
  - Small but focused team (8 employees) with presence in the US, Philippines, and Poland [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nolla-health)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI + clinical oversight**: Every diagnosis and prescription is reviewed by a licensed U.S. medical provider, combining speed with trust [nollahealth.com](https://www.nollahealth.com/).
- **Continuous care model**: Daily AI skin scans and monthly treatment updates create a compounding clinical relationship that improves over time.
- **Data moat**: Proprietary AI trained on real clinical outcomes, with daily user scans generating a unique longitudinal dataset.
- **HIPAA compliant and privacy-focused**: Strong emphasis on data security and patient privacy [nollahealth.com](https://www.nollahealth.com/).

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand beyond acne**: Nolla Skin now addresses redness, wrinkles, and hyperpigmentation, with plans to add more specialty care services.
- **Build the “personal doctor” vision**: Integrating Nolla MD for general health and expanding the platform to cover end-to-end care.
- **Scale AI capabilities**: Hiring a Founding AI Engineer to advance the core predictive and diagnostic models [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/nolla-health).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Founded by doctors, engineers, and researchers – a mission-driven team focused on making healthcare accessible and understandable.
- **Work environment**: In-office for engineering and product roles in New York City (with a second office in Norway). Some roles (e.g., Social Media Coordinator) are remote/contract [nollahealth.com](https://www.nollahealth.com/careers).
- **Engineering focus**: Early-stage startup with a small team (8 people) – opportunity to have significant impact on the product and technical direction. Current open roles include Founding AI Engineer and Product Designer [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/nolla-health).
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but typical of a seed-stage healthtech startup: equity, direct work with founders, and the chance to shape a product that already has strong user traction.

## Sources
1. [nollahealth.com – Homepage](https://www.nollahealth.com/)
2. [nollahealth.com – About](https://www.nollahealth.com/about)
3. [nollahealth.com – Careers](https://www.nollahealth.com/careers)
4. [builtin.com – Nolla Health Profile](https://builtin.com/company/nolla-health)
5. [linkedin.com – Nolla Health Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nolla-health)

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