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# Sr.AI Engineer at Cohere Health

- **Company:** Cohere Health
- **Location:** Hyderabad, India
- **Posted:** 2026-06-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/coherehealth/jobs/7763561003

## Job description

Opportunity Overview: We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer - AI  to join our Engineering team. In this role, you will build the intelligent agents and applications serving health insurance plans covering over 15 million people. You'll partner closely with product, data science, and clinical teams to build the foundation that transforms how clinical intelligence is delivered at scale. This is an opportunity to make a direct impact on healthcare outcomes while working with modern technologies in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

What you’ll do:

- Agent Development: Participate in the development, evaluation, and deployment of Cohere’s AI-powered agents and applications.
- Data & Retrieval Architecture: Design data and retrieval architectures that give AI agents the right context across diverse healthcare sources.
- Hands-On Engineering: Design, review, and own high-quality agentic code — leading releases, production deployments and on-call support.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with ML/DS teams, product teams, and architects to understand requirements and ensure systems meet business needs.
- Security & Compliance: Ensure all agentic components comply with healthcare security and privacy regulations (e.g., HIPAA) and adhere to industry best practices for security.
- Agile Development: Contribute to sprint planning, execution, and retrospectives, driving efficiency and velocity within the engineering team and collaborating closely with stakeholders to align with product goals and business priorities.

ISMS roles and responsibilities:

- Good knowledge of Information practices.
- Assist the manager in all the information security activities implementation and maintenance process.
- Ensuring the  team and imparted with Competence related to Information security
- Responsible for implementation of security policies and procedures and report any issues to the Information Security Manager.

Required Qualifications:

Must-haves

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of experience in the software development lifecycle, with demonstrated experience working with popular agent frameworks and language models.
- Expertise in one or more modern languages for development. Experience with any cloud platform, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools is a plus.
- Experience with AI architectures, Multi-agent systems, RAG, and Evaluation frameworks.
- Experience shaping engineering standards, frameworks, or libraries used across multiple teams
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-haves:

- Familiarity with human-in-the-loop system design and AI safety considerations in production.
- Experience with graph-based or multi-modal data retrieval in the context of AI reasoning.

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Hyderabad, Telangana: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Interview Process:

- Connect with Talent Acquisition
- Meet with the Hiring Manager
- Behavioral Interview(s)
- Case Study
- Interview with Senior Leadership

*Subject to change

About Cohere Health:

Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform and agentic AI-powered solutions connect health plans’ strategic goals and providers’ needs, optimizing the speed, cost, and quality of care. With an enterprise approach that streamlines payer-provider decision-making across the care continuum–including policy, prior authorization, payment accuracy, and more–the company improves collaboration and reduces burden, resulting in up to 8x ROI and 94% provider satisfaction.

With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we expanded our AI-native platform with a comprehensive Payment Integrity Suite that spans data mining, clinical and coding validation, authorization and claims reconciliation, and end-to-end payment integrity services across pre- and post-pay workflows. By connecting clinical and payment insights, our transparent, AI-powered solutions help health plans proactively improve payment accuracy, reduce waste and vendor dependency, strengthen provider relationships, and build smarter, more efficient payment integrity programs.

Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry-wide recognition. We’ve been recognized on TIME’s World Top HealthTech Companies 2025 list, the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024.

We can’t wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all.  To us, it’s personal.

## About Cohere Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cohere Health provides an AI-powered clinical intelligence platform that automates prior authorization, payment integrity, and care management for health plans.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed, funding details not publicly available)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, USA (with a second office in Hyderabad, India)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Healthcare technology (health plan operations, utilization management, payment integrity)
- **Target Customers**: B2B – health plans (insurers), providers, and physician groups
- **Mission**: Simplify healthcare by enabling patients, physicians, and health plans to efficiently collaborate on getting the right care at the right time, place, and value.

## Products & Services
- **[Cohere Unify™ Platform](https://www.coherehealth.com/)**: A unified clinical intelligence platform that connects utilization management, payment integrity, appeals, care management, quality, and claims operations. It uses domain-specific AI to digitize care requests, automate prior authorization (85% real-time approvals), shift payment integrity upstream, and improve decision accuracy. Type: SaaS/Platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not publicly available; operational metrics include 94% provider satisfaction, 70% faster patient access to care, 63% lower denial rates, and 18x ROI for prior authorization.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed in provided sources
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Named a 2025 Built Best Place to Work and one of "150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare."
  - Employees span 47 U.S. states and India, fluent in over a dozen languages.
  - Claims auditor and data science teams actively hiring across multiple roles (67 open positions as of search date).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Domain-specific AI** trained on proprietary clinical context, enabling high real-time approval rates (85%) and low provider abrasion.
- **Connected intelligence** across multiple health plan workflows (UM, payment integrity, appeals, quality, claims) from a single platform, reducing silos.
- **Human-in-the-loop** design ensures clinical oversight for the remaining 15% of prior authorization submissions.
- Proven ROI: 5x ROI for utilization management, 8–9x for payment integrity, and 18x for prior authorization.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand platform capabilities to further automate and streamline health plan operations, with emphasis on medex risk management and upstream payment integrity.
- Maintain remote-first US culture while expanding India-based engineering and operations teams.
- Continue investing in AI and machine learning to improve decision accuracy and audit efficiency.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: US team is 100% remote with a physical office in Boston available for voluntary use; India team works in-office in Hyderabad.
- **Benefits**: Medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance, 401(k) with employer match, up to 23 days PTO + holidays, up to 14 weeks paid parental leave, pet insurance, and employee assistance program.
- **Culture**: Values-driven (humility, rethink status quo, purpose drives performance, connect collaborate cohere). Emphasis on mission-driven work that directly impacts patient care.
- **Career Development**: Manager/leadership training, bi-annual promotion cycles, internal mobility, and learning opportunities.
- **Recognition**: Awarded "Best Places to Work" and "Top Places to Work in Healthcare" in 2025.

## Sources
1. [Cohere Health Careers](https://www.coherehealth.com/careers)
2. [Cohere Health Homepage](https://www.coherehealth.com/)
3. [Our Story – Cohere Health](https://www.coherehealth.com/our-story)
4. [Cohere Health LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coherehealth)
5. [Jobs at Cohere Health – Greenhouse](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/coherehealth)

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