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title: 'Physician AI Engineer at Counsel Health'
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# Physician AI Engineer at Counsel Health

- **Company:** Counsel Health
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/counsel/4bf3a684-803d-4e50-b4d0-d3406002f86d

## Job description

About [Counsel](http://counsel.health/) Counsel’s mission is to multiply the world's healthcare capacity. We believe in a future in which every person has a personalized, AI-enabled doctor always in their pocket. To accomplish this, we’re building the first fully-vertical, AI-native medical group from the ground up. We’ve redesigned the entire clinical stack with custom AI tools that make our in-house physicians 10x faster and smarter. [[learn more on our blog](https://www.counselhealth.com/blog)]

Since our founding in 2023, we have formed partnerships with leading healthcare organizations and are on track to serve hundreds of thousands of patients on our platform within the next year. We have raised over $35M from a16z, Google Ventures, Pear VC and other top-tier VC firms.

Our team combines deep expertise in medicine (Harvard, Mt. Sinai, Mass General, UCSF) and technology (MIT, Google, DeepMind, NVIDIA, Stripe, Meta) — and we’re looking for exceptional people to join us as we scale.

Join us as we build the future of AI in healthcare! -----------------------------------------------------

## About the Role

Counsel Health is building an AI-enabled care delivery platform, and we need someone who can sit at the intersection of clinical, technical, and product judgment to own its 0→1 build. This is a builder role for someone who can translate real clinical reasoning directly into shippable agents, safety systems, and evaluations that meet a practicing physician's bar for patient care.

The components of clinical AI most likely to harm or help patients, the diagnostic agents, the safety nets, the evals that gate them, can't be built well by engineers alone, physicians alone, or PMs alone. We're looking for one person who is genuinely all three: someone who can scope a clinical problem, design the eval that proves whether it's solved, and ship the code themselves.

## What You’ll Do

- Own the full arc of clinical and safety agents: scoping with Product and relevant teams, writing the PRD, designing the architecture and evals, building, and shipping to production.
- Stand up a clinical eval framework that becomes the canonical quality bar for at least one agent, that’s built to be testable and productionized so any engineer or researcher can run their work against it and know whether it's safe to ship.
- Measurably improve core components of Counsel AI (i.e. history-taking, differential diagnosis, triage, treatment planning), benchmarked against physician performance on representative case sets.
- Get fluent in the existing stack quickly by reading the code, running the evals, sitting with the clinical team, and surfacing a prioritized list of where Counsel’s AI and safety systems are weakest.
- Ship early, guided work end-to-end from shadowing current workflows, picking a tractable agent or safety component, prototyping it, getting it through review, and shipping it.

## What You Bring

- MD, DO, or international equivalent, with residency training or 3+ years of clinical experience completed.
- Substantive, hands-on experience building with LLMs in production, beyond just experimentation.
- A track record of real ownership over shipped products in industry or startup settings; health tech experience is strongly preferred.
- Board-eligible or board-certified status with meaningful active or recent clinical practice (strongly preferred).
- Published research, open-source work, or public writing on clinical AI, LLM evaluations, or related areas (strongly preferred).
- Experience embedded inside an engineering organization (strongly preferred).

## Who You Are

- You think like a physician and build like an engineer, meaning you are equally comfortable reasoning through a differential diagnosis and shipping products that operationalizes it.
- You've operated at an early-stage startup, or founded one yourself, and you're energized rather than overwhelmed by ambiguity and a fast-moving roadmap.
- You have an experimental mindset: you'd rather prototype, test, and iterate than wait for the perfect plan.
- You take patient safety personally and are motivated by getting medical AI right, not just getting it out the door.
- You're a natural translator across disciplines such that you can make clinical nuance legible to engineers and technical tradeoffs legible to clinicians.
- You're drawn to defining your own roadmap rather than executing someone else's spec.

## #LI-PINJOB

Recruitment Fraud Notice. Counsel Health only communicates with candidates using official @[counselhealth.com](http://counselhealth.com) email addresses. We will never ask for payment or financial information during the interview process. If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from Counsel Health, please contact us at careers@counselhealth.com.

Counsel Health participates in [E-Verify](https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/EVerifyParticipationPoster.pdf). All newly hired employees are processed through the E-Verify system to confirm employment eligibility.

## About Counsel Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Counsel Health delivers AI-enabled, physician-supervised primary care through a secure messaging-based experience, combining medical AI with licensed physicians for fast, affordable, and personalized care.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, raised $25M in October 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare / Virtual Care / AI-Enabled Telemedicine
- **Target customers**: B2B (health plans, employers, health systems) and B2C (individuals seeking direct primary care)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To make high-quality personalized medical advice available to everyone at all times, like having a doctor in the family.

## Products & Services
- **[Counsel AI + Physician Platform]**: A chat- and voice-based virtual care platform where medical AI handles initial triage and guidance, and board-certified physicians can join the conversation within minutes for diagnosis, prescriptions, referrals, and follow-up. Available via web and mobile app. Pricing: $0 for AI chat (unlimited), $29 per 7-day visit when a doctor is involved, or $199/year for premium membership (includes unlimited AI + physician visits). [counselhealth.com](https://www.counselhealth.com/)
- **[Enterprise/Partnership Offering]**: A white-label or integrated “front door to care” for health plans, employers, and health systems, replacing nurse triage lines and legacy telehealth. Includes audit-ready guardrails for payer compliance and measurable savings (average $381 per engaged member per year). [hitconsultant.net](https://hitconsultant.net/2025/10/16/counsel-health-raises-25m-to-launch-physician-supervised-ai-care-platform/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $36M ($11M Seed in October 2024, $25M Series A in October 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led both rounds; Google Ventures (GV) participated in Series A. [hitconsultant.net](https://hitconsultant.net/2025/10/16/counsel-health-raises-25m-to-launch-physician-supervised-ai-care-platform/)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Over 100,000 members served nationwide as of October 2025.
  - 96% issue-resolution rate, average physician response time of 2 minutes.
  - Headcount grew ~190% year-over-year (from ~13 to 38 employees as of mid-2026).
  - Active job postings: 14 (as of July 2026), with strong engineering and clinical hiring.
  - LinkedIn followers: 10,521 (+152.8% yearly).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Physician-supervised AI**: Unlike pure chatbots (ChatGPT, WebMD), Counsel’s AI is trained on clinical guidelines and patient records, with seamless escalation to licensed physicians. This ensures safety, compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2), and high-resolution rates.
- **Integrated care record**: Unified health data from patient portals and past interactions, enabling continuous, personalized care.
- **No insurance friction**: Simple transparent pricing ($29/visit) without prior authorizations or insurance requirements.
- **Enterprise-grade safety**: Designed for payer compliance and risk standards, making it attractive for health plan adoption.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand physician network and AI capabilities** to scale care to millions of members.
- **Deepen enterprise partnerships** with payers, employers, and health systems (already serving over 100,000 members).
- **Geographic expansion**: Currently available in most U.S. states (excluding AR, DC, KS, MS, RI, WA, WI, and partial availability in CO, FL, TX via partnerships).
- **Product development**: Adding lab testing, chronic disease management, and specialist referrals to broaden the care spectrum.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Mission**: Opportunity to build the “modern front door to healthcare” with a strong emphasis on safety, privacy, and evidence-based medicine. The company is mission-driven to make high-quality care accessible to everyone.
- **Growth Trajectory**: Rapidly scaling startup (190% headcount growth YoY) backed by top-tier VCs (a16z, GV). Employees can have significant impact in a small but growing team (38 people).
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Not explicitly stated, but the team is distributed across multiple countries (US, Nigeria, Ireland, Iran, South Africa). Likely remote-friendly with a hub in Boston.
- **Engineering Culture**: Heavy focus on AI, data, and fullstack engineering (multiple open roles for Software Engineers, Analytics Engineer, Product Manager). The tech stack involves medical AI, HIPAA/SOC 2 compliance, and building scalable enterprise integrations.
- **Perks**: Unlimited AI chat for free, physician visits at $29 (or $199/year), transparent pricing, and a focus on user privacy (no data sold, no AI training on user data).

## Sources
1. [counselhealth.com](https://www.counselhealth.com/) – Official website (pricing, features, FAQ)
2. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/counsel](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/counsel) – Careers page (open roles, company description)
3. [linkedin.com/company/counselhealth](https://www.linkedin.com/company/counselhealth) – LinkedIn profile (employees, growth, funding, locations)
4. [hitconsultant.net](https://hitconsultant.net/2025/10/16/counsel-health-raises-25m-to-launch-physician-supervised-ai-care-platform/) – News article on Series A funding and platform launch
5. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/counselhealth/__kpyaylTBUpzlLgfhyoSMbkl8a93LIrA83HREcPt9O1g) – Tracxn profile (funding details, founders not listed)

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