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# Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform at Color Health

- **Company:** Color Health
- **Location:** South San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/color-health/95471eaa-cf5d-4225-9971-c8eef10d7af3

## Job description

Color is revolutionizing cancer care with the nation’s first Virtual Cancer Clinic, delivering high-quality, physician-led multidisciplinary care across all 50 states. Our innovative, guideline-based approach spans cancer screening, risk assessment, prevention, diagnosis, treatment support, and survivorship. In addition to personalized direct medical care, our services include cancer genetics risk assessment, nutrition, mental health support and at-home cancer screening diagnostics. Using technology-driven, patient-centric solutions, Color is transforming how employers, unions, health plans, and governments address cancer. Color’s goal is to close critical cancer care gaps, improve cancer outcomes, and guide patients with empathy through their healthcare journeys. The Team: The AI Platform Team explores how rapidly evolving AI capabilities can create meaningful impact for patients, clinicians, and Color teams. We are a small, highly collaborative, cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, designers, and clinical partners. We build AI applications, experiment with emerging models, tools, techniques and interaction patterns, and turn what works into durable patterns and capabilities that can be used across Color. We embrace rapid experimentation, learning quickly from new technologies and real-world use, and bringing the most promising ideas into production. Given the pace at which AI is advancing, our goal is not simply to adopt the latest AI technology, but to identify where it creates meaningful value in cancer care and deliver AI experiences that are safe, reliable, and impactful. The Role: We’re hiring a full-stack Senior Software Engineer to build AI products and the platform that powers them across Color. This new role will report to the Senior Director of AI Platform and work across the stack - from intuitive clinician and patient-facing AI experiences to the backend services and infrastructure that power them. This is a full-stack role and we’re looking for candidates with senior level experience across frontend, backend and systems engineering. We seek a hands-on builder with strong product instincts and deep curiosity about AI. You should be someone who experiments constantly, follows advancements in models and tooling, and translates emerging capabilities into reliable products. You will also raise Color’s AI fluency by sharing insights and demonstrating effective building patterns. How You’ll Contribute:

- Build full-stack AI applications for Color’s care teams and patients, owning features from user experience through backend services, AI orchestration, data access, and production deployment.
- Explore where emerging AI capabilities can meaningfully improve cancer care and how Color works, moving rapidly from ideas to prototypes to shipped experiences.
- Experiment rapidly with emerging AI capabilities, turning promising models, tools, and techniques into prototypes and incrementally evolving the best ideas into production systems.
- Develop reliable LLM-powered systems, including retrieval and knowledge systems, citations and grounding, prompt management, structured outputs, tool use, agentic workflows, and evaluation.
- Develop the evaluation, observability, and safety practices needed to understand AI quality, compare approaches, identify regressions, and confidently evolve successful experiments into durable products.
- Design privacy- and security-conscious systems appropriate for sensitive healthcare data and clinical workflows.
- Partner closely with product, design, clinical, and engineering teams to understand problems, prototype solutions, learn from users, and ship improvements quickly.
- Raise Color’s AI fluency by sharing experiments, emerging techniques, lessons learned, and strong patterns for building with AI across the company.
- Mentor others and raise the technical and product quality bar.

Possible Projects To Contribute To:

- Healthbook: Build and evolve an internal AI application that helps our care and clinical teams understand patients’ longitudinal health histories, synthesize records, answer grounded questions with citations, and draft documents using an AI agent.
- AI Platform: Build shared capabilities that enable teams across Color to develop reliable AI applications quickly, including knowledge bases and retrieval, citations and grounding, prompt management, evaluation, observability, and reusable agentic patterns.
- What’s next: Explore the next generation of patient-facing AI experiences, and turn what we learn into platform capabilities that enable teams across Color to build with AI.

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have:

- 5+ years of experience building and shipping production software, with strong full-stack skills across React/TypeScript, Python, APIs, data integrations, and cloud infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience building production AI products with modern LLMs, including patterns such as RAG, structured outputs, tool calling, agentic workflows, prompt engineering, and model evaluation.
- Experience turning complex, heterogeneous data into useful product experiences and taking systems from prototype through production, including testing, monitoring, and iteration.
- Strong product judgment and the ability to balance speed, technical quality, reliability, and user impact in ambiguous, rapidly evolving environments.
- A bias toward tinkering, rapid experimentation, and learning. You start small, prototype quickly, measure what works, and recognize when new AI capabilities create opportunities for a larger leap.
- An informed point of view on how AI is changing software engineering and product development. You regularly experiment with new models, frameworks, coding tools, agent architectures, and interaction patterns—and communicate what you learn. You are someone others at Color look to for what’s new in AI, what works in practice, and how we should apply it.

Nice to Have:

- Experience building AI platforms or shared infrastructure that empowered multiple teams to ship AI applications.
- Experience developing healthcare technology involving sensitive clinical data.

We believe that all people are capable of great things. We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements that are listed within this job description. What We Offer:

- 💰 Competitive salary
- ✨ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
- 📈 401k match
- 📝 Monthly phone and wifi stipend for employees, annual ergonomic stipend
- 🏝 Generous vacation policy, paid holidays and company-wide recharge days
- 🍼 Equal paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
- Free cancer screening and prevention resources for employees and their adult dependents

Base Salary Range: $175,000 - $230,000 The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: work experience, market data, skills, geographic location, and business need. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for equity and benefits. Color prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Color conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities in our recruitment process.

## About Color Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Color Health operates the only nationwide, oncologist-led Virtual Cancer Clinic, delivering high-quality, technology-enabled cancer care from prevention through survivorship.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not disclosed in available sources)
- **Headquarters**: South San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Othman Laraki (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare – cancer care, virtual clinical services, genetic testing, and population health management.
- **Target customers**: B2B – employers, unions, health plans, and public sector organizations; also serves individual patients through these partnerships.
- **Mission**: To expand access to high-quality, equitable cancer care by combining oncologist-led clinical care with technology and AI, improving outcomes and controlling costs.

## Products & Services
- **Virtual Cancer Clinic**: A comprehensive, ASCO Certified virtual center of excellence covering the full cancer journey. Services include:
  - **Prevention, Early Detection & Diagnosis**: At-home cancer screening and genetic testing, risk identification, fast clinical follow-up on abnormal results.
  - **Planning & Active Treatment**: Oncologist-led care team (board-certified oncologists) that reviews diagnoses, collaborates with local treating providers, and manages symptoms 24/7.
  - **Survivorship Care & Return to Work**: Monitoring for recurrence, long-term health support, and assistance with returning to work after treatment.
- **Genetic Testing (legacy)**: Originally launched in 2015 with affordable, comprehensive genetic testing for cancer risk (BRCA1/2, etc.), including genetic counseling and at-home sample collection.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Serves over 2,000 patients through its Virtual Cancer Clinic; has delivered more than 7 million healthcare interventions and supported over 26 million individuals across partner organizations (employer, health plan, union, public sector).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 
  - American Cancer Society (joint cancer screening and prevention program, launched 2023)
  - National Institutes of Health (NIH) – funded Color as one of three genome centers for the All of Us Research Program (in partnership with Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)
  - ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) – certified the Virtual Cancer Clinic
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Achieved ASCO Certification (2025), validating quality standards equivalent to top cancer centers.
  - Expanded from genetic testing to a full virtual cancer clinic model, now licensed in all 50 states.
  - Partnerships with major employers and health plans driving adoption.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Nationwide virtual model**: The only oncologist-led Virtual Cancer Clinic operating across all 50 states, breaking geographic barriers to specialized cancer care.
- **ASCO Certification**: Meets rigorous quality and safety standards, independently validating a technology-enabled care model.
- **Speed and direct clinical care**: Faster diagnosis (66% faster diagnosis cited), 100% follow-up on abnormal results, and oncologist-led care (not just navigation) with 24/7 access.
- **Integrated continuum**: Covers the entire cancer journey from screening to survivorship, reducing fragmentation and improving outcomes (2.8:1 ROI reported, $23,000 saved per patient, $6,000 saved per survivor).
- **Technology and AI backbone**: Combines clinical expertise with advanced lab automation (CAP-accredited, CLIA-certified), AI, and population-scale data.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening the virtual cancer clinic model to improve outcomes and reduce costs for employer, health plan, and public sector populations.
- Expanding partnerships with large organizations to close cancer care gaps and drive early detection.
- Leveraging AI and technology to accelerate diagnosis, streamline care coordination, and scale clinical capacity.
- Continuing to build out survivorship and return-to-work services as a differentiator.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture**: “Do your life’s most meaningful work” – employees directly impact cancer patients’ lives across detection, treatment, and survivorship.
- **Remote & hybrid flexibility**: Many roles are remote (USA); some positions are hybrid in South San Francisco. The company values adaptability and resourcefulness.
- **Interdisciplinary environment**: Engineering, design, science, and clinical expertise collaborate on every step of the care journey.
- **Growth opportunity**: As a fast-growing private company with a proven model and national reach, employees can shape the future of cancer care.
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the focus on employee impact and flexibility suggests a supportive, modern work environment.

## Sources
1. [Color Health Home](https://www.color.com/)
2. [Color Health About Us](https://www.color.com/about-us)
3. [Color Health Careers](https://www.color.com/careers)
4. [Color Health Leadership](https://www.color.com/leadership/)
5. [Color Health Talent Pool (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/color/8d9c106b-4dc9-4af3-a64b-b0633c034781)

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