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# Principal AI Engineer at Qualified Health PBC

- **Company:** Qualified Health PBC
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/qualified-health-pbc/13170679-e4fb-4233-be9e-77a2cd14dc95

## Job description

Transform healthcare with us. At Qualified Health, we're redefining what's possible with Generative AI in healthcare. Our infrastructure provides the guardrails for safe AI governance, healthcare-specific agent creation, and real-time algorithm monitoring—working alongside leading health systems to drive real change. This is more than just a job. It's an opportunity to build the future of AI in healthcare, solve complex challenges, and make a lasting impact on patient care. If you're ambitious, innovative, and ready to move fast, we'd love to have you on board. Join us in shaping the future of healthcare.

Job Summary: We're hiring a Principal Applied AI Engineer to set the technical vision for how Qualified Health builds agentic AI systems across the entire product portfolio. This is a company-level technical leadership role: you'll shape multi-year infrastructure strategy, represent engineering in decisions about AI direction at the leadership table, and set the bar for what "production-grade agentic AI in healthcare" means at QH. You'll still write code and dive into hard technical problems directly, but your primary impact will be through the systems, standards, and people you influence across teams.

Key Responsibilities:

- Define the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for agentic workflow infrastructure supporting the full QH product portfolio (100+ workflows and growing).
- Represent applied AI engineering in cross-functional and leadership-level decisions on product direction, build-vs-buy, and platform investment.
- Set org-wide engineering standards for LLM evaluation, deployment, safety, and monitoring — informing QH's broader AI governance approach.
- Act as a technical escalation point for the hardest, highest-ambiguity problems across product lines.
- Mentor and develop Staff-level engineers; help shape the technical career ladder for applied AI roles.
- Stay ahead of the frontier — evaluate emerging models, frameworks, and techniques (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, etc.) and determine what's worth adopting at QH.
- Partner with founders and engineering leadership on how AI infrastructure investment ties to company strategy.

Required Qualifications:

- Deep software engineering foundation (Python required) with a track record of architecting systems used company-wide.
- 8+ years building production software, including 4+ years building and scaling AI-powered/LLM-driven applications in production.
- Proven experience setting technical direction and standards adopted across multiple teams, not just a single product line.
- Deep expertise in MLOps, model deployment, and workflow automation at an organizational/platform level.
- Demonstrated ability to operate with full autonomy on ambiguous, high-stakes technical and strategic problems.
- Strong track record influencing technical decisions at the leadership level, including with non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable Skills:

- Bachelor's degree + 10 years OR Master's degree + 8 years in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Recognized expertise (internally or externally — talks, publications, open source, prior platform-level roles) in applied AI/agentic systems.
- Experience building AI infrastructure in a regulated or high-stakes domain (healthcare, finance, etc.).
- History of founding or scaling a technical function from the ground up in a startup environment.
- Experience mentoring Staff-level engineers and shaping technical career ladders.

Why Join Qualified Health? This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing company and a world-class team, that is poised to change the healthcare industry. We are a passionate, mission-driven team that is building a category-defining product. We are backed by premier investors and are looking for founding team members who are excited to do the best work of their careers. Our employees are integral to achieving our goals so we are proud to offer competitive salaries with equity packages, robust medical/dental/vision insurance, flexible working hours, hybrid work options and an inclusive environment that fosters creativity and innovation.

Our Commitment to Diversity Qualified Health is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace is essential to our success, and we are committed to building a team that reflects the world we live in. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

Pay & Benefits: The pay range for this role is between $230,000 and $315,000, depending on skills, qualifications, experience, and location. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits. Join our mission to revolutionize healthcare with AI. To apply, please send your resume through the application below.

## About Qualified Health PBC

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Qualified Health is the healthcare-native enterprise AI platform that enables health systems to safely deploy, govern, and scale AI across clinical, operational, and financial workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Justin Norden (CEO), Kedar Mate (CMO), Beau Norgeot (Chief AI Officer)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare AI infrastructure and governance
- **Target customers**: B2B – large health systems, academic medical centers, and clinically integrated networks
- **Mission**: To help health systems deploy safe, compliant, and impactful AI at enterprise scale by providing a unified platform with built-in governance, monitoring, and outcomes tracking.

## Products & Services
- **Qualified Health Platform**: A single, healthcare-native enterprise AI platform that includes a governed operating layer, one data integration, agent builder tools, workforce education, and a curated library of validated AI solutions. Covers HIPAA-compliant guardrails, real-time monitoring, audit trails, and role-based access controls.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metrics**: Annual revenue ~$3.1M (LinkedIn); total funding $155M (Series B of $125M led by New Enterprise Associates, Seed of $30M led by Town Hall Ventures and Frist Cressey Ventures)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: New Enterprise Associates (lead Series B), Town Hall Ventures, Frist Cressey Ventures
- **Growth Signals**: 10× revenue growth in the past year; 241.9% YoY headcount growth (75 employees); reached over 500,000 users across top US health systems; identified $37M in run-rate value in 10 days for one partner; $15M in value realized within six months for another; platform go-live in under one month

## Competitive Advantages
- **Healthcare-native governance**: Governance is built into the platform, not bolted on, with risk-based guardrails, human-in-the-loop controls, and continuous post-deployment monitoring.
- **Single integration**: Connects once to core clinical, operational, and financial systems to power every AI workflow, eliminating duplicate data extraction.
- **Deep domain expertise**: Founders and team bring experience from Waymo (self-driving safety), Stanford Medicine, IHI, and major health systems – they understand regulated environments firsthand.
- **Proven traction**: Over 500,000 users on the platform with measurable clinical, operational, and financial outcomes.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale safely: Continue deploying the platform across more health systems while maintaining rigorous compliance and safety standards.
- Bold innovation: Expand agent and workflow builder tools to empower health system teams to create their own AI solutions on a governed foundation.
- Last-mile delivery: Operate as an embedded partner to drive adoption, measure ROI, and tune solutions for sustained impact.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High-talent-density team with backgrounds from Waymo, Stanford, Elevance Health, and top consultancies. Emphasis on safety as an enabler of speed in healthcare.
- **Growth trajectory**: Fast-growing (10× revenue, 241% headcount growth) with a clear path to becoming a category-defining company in healthcare AI.
- **Mission-driven**: Direct impact on reducing clinician burnout, improving patient outcomes, and lowering healthcare costs.
- **Work environment**: Based in Palo Alto, CA with international presence (Italy, Canada, South Korea). Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated but likely flexible; check current job postings for specifics.
- **Perks**: Competitive salaries (e.g., Software Engineer ~$106K); the opportunity to shape the operating system for AI in healthcare alongside industry leaders.

## Sources
1. [qualifiedhealthai.com](https://www.qualifiedhealthai.com/)
2. [qualifiedhealthai.com/careers](https://www.qualifiedhealthai.com/careers)
3. [qualifiedhealthai.com/about-us](https://www.qualifiedhealthai.com/about-us)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/qualifiedhealth)
5. [bloomberg.com](https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/2540760D:US)

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