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title: 'Principal DevOps Software Engineer at RapidAI'
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# Principal DevOps Software Engineer at RapidAI

- **Company:** RapidAI
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $175k–$240k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/rapidai/0be4f694-5744-4f9f-9f26-a4f4ea3b021c

## Job description

RapidAI is the trusted leader in deep clinical AI, helping hospitals deliver faster, more informed care through intelligent imaging and integrated workflows. The Rapid Enterprise™ Platform supports disease states across the care spectrum, but it’s our clinical depth that drives the most meaningful impact — improving decision-making, patient outcomes, and health-system performance. Used by more than 2,500 hospitals in over 100 countries and backed by 700+ clinical studies, including research that helped expand national stroke-treatment guidelines, RapidAI is the most clinically validated AI platform in healthcare.

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to be at the forefront of medical device software development to help deliver the best patient care around the world.

How you help us grow!

Position Duties and responsibilities:

- Leverage AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Copilot) to design, build, and operate infrastructure and automation, review PRs, troubleshoot systems, enhance deployments and support procedures
- Design, build, and manage cloud infrastructure and delivery platforms with a focus on resilience, security, performance, and scalability
- Operate and improve Kubernetes-based platforms and the surrounding ecosystem to support microservice workloads
- Implement infrastructure as code with reusable, tested, peer-reviewed modules
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in a regulated environment
- Architect and operate AWS environments, including networking, security controls, and cost optimization
- Collaborate with Engineering, QA, IT, and Security as the point of contact for infrastructure, deployment, and operability design

What you bring!

- 8+ years of experience in engineering with demonstrated technical leadership
- Bachelors’ Degree in CS or relevant fields
- Experience using AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot) for infrastructure, automation, and troubleshooting
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and its ecosystem (e.g., EKS, Helm, Argo CD/Flux, Prometheus/Grafana)
- Strong working knowledge of AWS cloud services
- Proficiency with Terraform and/or CloudFormation
- Experience with CI/CD using GitHub Actions and/or Jenkins
- Solid networking knowledge (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, load balancing, VPC design, VPN)
- Experience with AWS security tools (e.g., IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, CloudTrail)
- Proficiency in a scripting or programming language (e.g., Python, Bash, Go, JS)
- Troubleshoot issues effectively in a distributed architecture
- Strong decision-making ability and the ability to support multiple teams
- Great communication skills with technical and non-technical teams in a global environment across time zones

Preferred:

- Experience with AWS GovCloud
- Experience with compliance frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, HIPAA, SOC 2, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001)

Citizenship / Status: Due to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) contract requirements, applicants must be a U.S. Citizen or a Lawful Permanent Resident (Green Card holder). U.S. Residency Requirement: Per federal investigation standards, non-U.S. citizen candidates must have lawfully resided in the United States for a minimum of three (3) consecutive years prior to application. Background Investigation: Candidates must be able to successfully initiate, pass, and maintain a favorable VA background investigation (e-QIP / eApp, including fingerprinting/SAC and Tier 1 or Public Trust suitability adjudication) to obtain a VA PIV card and access VA networks. Visa Sponsorship: Candidates must be currently authorized to work in the United States without restriction. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship (now or in the future) for this position.

RapidAI is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type in regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Please review our CPRA policies here. For more information on the information we collect about our applicants and how we use it, see our CPRA Privacy Notice here.

## About RapidAI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: RapidAI delivers a deep clinical AI platform for medical imaging and care coordination, helping hospitals make faster, more informed decisions across stroke, cardiovascular, and trauma care.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, $75M raised in 2023)
- **Headquarters**: San Mateo, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed on the company website or LinkedIn (the company was founded by a team including Dr. Greg Zaharchuk and others, but no single named founder is prominently listed on the official site)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare AI / Medical Imaging / Clinical Decision Support
- **Target customers**: B2B – hospitals, health systems, radiology departments, stroke centers, and vascular service lines across 100+ countries
- **Mission or purpose**: "We innovate with purpose—delivering AI-powered medical imaging and care coordination solutions that transform decision-making and improve patient outcomes." (source: [rapidai.com](https://www.rapidai.com/about-us))

## Products & Services
- **Rapid Enterprise™ Platform**: An enterprise-grade AI platform that enables cross-disciplinary deployment of deep clinical AI for triage, quantification, and visualization across multiple disease states.
- **Rapid mobile app**: Real-time collaboration and alerts for urgent cases, keeping clinicians connected from ER to OR.
- **Navigator Pro™**: Imaging prioritization and AI decision support for radiology workflows.
- **Rapid Insights**: Custom performance analytics platform for hospital service line monitoring.
- **Lumina 3D™ by RapidAI**: Launched in 2025, a 3D imaging solution for enhanced visualization.
- **Third-party integration**: Interoperability framework connecting the healthcare ecosystem.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue $15M (latest available, per LinkedIn) / Total Funding $100.45M (Series C of $75M in July 2023 plus earlier rounds)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: The Series C had one investor; earlier rounds included a convertible note and Series B ($25M, Sept 2020). Large health systems and 2,500+ hospitals are customers. Clinical partnerships evidenced by 700+ clinical studies.
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded from stroke to cardiovascular, endovascular, aneurysm & trauma in 2022; launched Edge Cloud platform and non-contrast CT imaging in 2023; launched Enterprise Platform and Navigator Pro in 2024; Lumina 3D in 2025. Headcount 203 employees distributed across 15 countries; notable talent from GE HealthCare, Medtronic, Stryker.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Clinical validation**: 700+ clinical studies, including landmark trials (DAWN, DEFUSE 3) that expanded stroke treatment guidelines from 6 to 24 hours. 30 FDA-cleared modules.
- **Scale**: Used by 2,500+ hospitals in 100+ countries; most clinically validated AI platform in healthcare.
- **Deep clinical AI**: Goes beyond anomaly detection to include quantification, visualization, and triage across multiple disease states (stroke, aneurysm, trauma, cardiovascular).
- **Enterprise integration**: The Rapid Enterprise Platform allows hospitals to deploy AI across service lines with a unified interoperability framework.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expanding the platform beyond stroke into cardiovascular, vascular, and trauma; building out the Edge Cloud infrastructure for faster local processing; deepening analytics with Rapid Insights; and integrating with third-party systems to become the central AI hub for hospital radiology and service lines.
- **Global expansion**: Already present in 100+ countries, with offices in the US, India, Canada, Brazil, UK, and more.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Rooted in clinical validation and innovation; "We do AI beyond the algorithm" – a mission-driven environment focused on life-saving impact.
- **Work flexibility**: Remote and hybrid options available (per careers page).
- **Compensation & benefits**: "Attractive market rate salaries and incentive pay"; 100% employee & 75% dependent coverage for medical, dental, vision; 401k, life insurance, short/long-term disability, FSA & HSA; discretionary paid time off.
- **Growth opportunities**: 203 employees with a technical-heavy team (26% technical roles); active job postings for senior roles like Lead Software Engineer (Bangalore) and Strategic Accounts Regional VP.
- **Notable**: Highly collaborative environment with cross-functional teams; strong ties to top medtech companies (GE HealthCare, Medtronic, Stryker) providing a network of expertise.

## Sources
1. [rapidai.com](https://www.rapidai.com/) – Product overview, platform, and impact metrics
2. [rapidai.com](https://www.rapidai.com/about-us) – Company history, milestones, and mission
3. [rapidai.com](https://www.rapidai.com/careers) – Benefits, culture, and work flexibility
4. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/rapidai) – Open positions and locations
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapid-ai) – Financials, headcount, funding, and employee breakdown

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