--- title: 'Staff Software Engineer, Brain Health, AI at Hinge Health' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-software-engineer-brain-health-ai-hinge-health-san-francisco-tvjysmrz9887' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Staff Software Engineer, Brain Health, AI at Hinge Health - **Company:** [Hinge Health](https://feeny.ai/companies/hinge-health) - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Compensation:** $222k–$334k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-05-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hinge-health/da6da560-9790-45a5-b805-a780c2aba505/application **Skills:** Python, TypeScript, NestJS, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Cloud Microservices, Machine Learning, Data Infrastructure, Terraform, CloudFormation, Spark, Kafka, ETL Pipelines, Open Source Contributions > Lead the architecture and development of agentic AI systems for pain reprocessing therapy and mindfulness interventions. Bridge clinical science and software engineering to build scalable, fault-tolerant AI-driven products in a regulated healthcare environment. ## Job description The Opportunity Join the team transforming how we treat chronic pain by addressing its root cause: the brain. Hinge Health is expanding beyond physical therapy to build a comprehensive Brain Health ecosystem. In this mission-critical role, you will lead the architecture and development of agentic AI systems that deliver personalized pain reprocessing therapy and mindfulness interventions. You will bridge the gap between clinical science and software engineering, building the engine that helps millions of members retrain how their nervous systems process pain. ## What You'll Accomplish - Architect Next-Gen AI Therapies: Build and scale the agentic AI systems that power multi-session conversational therapy, ensuring they maintain context, demonstrate emotional intelligence, and align with clinical protocols. - Build a Unified Education Platform: Design the centralized service that delivers personalized pain science education and mindset strategies, adapting content to each member's therapeutic goals. - Drive Technical Strategy: Define the long-term technical vision for Brain Health in partnership with product and clinical leadership, balancing immediate delivery with scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure. - Lead & Mentor: Act as a technical beacon for the team, mentoring engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, and driving cross-functional collaboration across data science, clinical, and platform teams. ## Who You Are - A Strategic Builder: You don't just write code; you architect systems that scale. You have a deep understanding of distributed systems and can navigate the complexity of building AI-driven products in a regulated healthcare environment. - A "Learn-it-all": You stay on the bleeding edge of AI and software engineering, constantly evaluating emerging technologies to optimize performance and improve the platform. - A Cross-Functional Leader: You thrive in multidisciplinary environments, translating complex technical concepts for clinical and product stakeholders to ensure our solutions are both clinically sound and technically robust. - An Owner-Operator: You take pride in your work, from architecture to production support, embodying a DevOps culture where you own the reliability and performance of your code. ## Basic Qualifications - Have 4+ years of practical software engineering experience, including meaningful time shipping AI-powered products to real users. - At minimum a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or related field - Have led the design and delivery of complex, user-facing products end-to-end — across product surfaces, backend services, and AI/ML systems. ## Preferred Qualifications - Have worked in early-stage or fast-moving, rapidly evolving environments, and have ideally built products from 0 to 1. - Are technically proficient in modern AI application development, with demonstrated depth in working with LLMs (prompt engineering, RAG, agentic systems, evals) and a strong fullstack foundation (e.g., Python, TypeScript/NestJS). - Take a product-focused approach to building AI solutions that are robust, safe, and genuinely useful in users' hands. - Have successfully driven cross-team alignment to get impactful work shipped, and work with influence over authority. - Have experience establishing engineering standards, system architectures, and development best practices — especially around evaluation, safety, and reliability for AI systems. - Thrive in fast-paced environments and can navigate ambiguity to deliver high-quality products. - Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. - Contributions to open-source AI or software engineering projects. ## About Hinge Health Hinge Health leverages software, including AI, to largely automate care for joint and muscle health, delivering an outstanding member experience, improved member outcomes, and cost reductions for its clients. The company has designed its platform to address a broad spectrum of MSK care—from acute injury, to chronic pain, to post-surgical rehabilitation—and the platform can help to ease members’ pain, improve their function, and reduce their need for surgeries, all while driving health equity by allowing members to engage in their exercise therapy sessions from anywhere. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Learn more athttp://www.hingehealth.com/http://www.hingehealth.com ## What You'll Love About Us - Inclusive healthcare and benefits: On top of comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, we offer employees and their family members help with gender-affirming care, tools for family and fertility planning, and travel reimbursements if healthcare isn’t available where you live. - Planning for the future: Start saving for the future with our traditional or Roth 401k retirement plan options which include a 2% company match. - Modern life stipends: Manage your own learning and development Culture & Engagement Hinge Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We make employment decisions without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you feel you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, let us know by reaching out to your recruiter. By submitting your application you are acknowledging we are using your personal data as outlined in the [personnel and candidate privacy policy.](https://www.hingehealth.com/about/personnel-and-candidate-privacy-policy/) Beware of Phishing Attempts: We've noticed an increase in phishing where fraudsters impersonate employees and send fake job offers to steal sensitive information. We'll never ask for financial details during the hiring process and only use "@[hingehealth.com](http://hingehealth.com)" emails. If you receive a suspicious offer, stop communication and report it to the US FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center. To verify an email from our recruiting team, forward it to [security@hingehealth.com](https://app.ashbyhq.com/admin/organizational-settings/theme#). ## About Hinge Health ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Hinge Health delivers personalized virtual physical therapy and musculoskeletal (MSK) care by combining AI-powered motion tracking, an FDA-cleared wearable device, and a dedicated clinical care team. - **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: HNGE) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Gabriel Mecklenburg (Co-founder & Executive Chairman / CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Digital Healthcare – Musculoskeletal (MSK) and pelvic health. - **Target Customers**: B2B – employers, health plans, and benefits brokers. Indirectly B2C through members. - **Mission**: To create a new healthcare system built around the individual – moving beyond traditional physical therapy to deliver accessible, scalable, evidence-based pain care. ## Products & Services - **Virtual Physical Therapy Program**: Personalized care plans with guided exercise sessions using 3D motion tracking for real-time feedback and precision movement analysis. Includes access to a physical therapist, health coach, and orthopedic specialist. - **Enso® Wearable Device**: FDA-cleared device that uses patented waveforms for drug-free pain relief; exclusive to Hinge Health. - **AI Care Assistant**: An AI agent that helps members stay on track with their care plans. - **Pelvic Floor Therapy**: Virtual care for pelvic health, integrated with MSK services. - **Enterprise Implementation**: Seamless eligibility, billing, and reporting through partnerships with 5 out of 5 national health plans and 3 out of 3 PBMs. Value-based pricing and frictionless contracting. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available (post-IPO; specific market cap not disclosed in provided sources). - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$587.9M** (2025) – [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hinge-health). Total funding raised: **$1.46B**. - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Tiger Global Management, Coatue, Alkeon Capital, Whale Rock Capital Management. - **Growth Signals**: IPO in May 2025; headcount of 1,254 (+1.2% YoY); 75 active job postings (+31.6% year over year); expanded into pelvic floor therapy; operates in 11 countries. ## Competitive Advantages - **Clinically validated ROI** – independently validated 2.4x hard dollar return on investment for employers. - **AI-first care model** – uses 3D motion tracking, autonomous AI agents for reasoning and feedback, and regulatory-grade systems. - **Exclusive FDA-cleared device** (Enso®) that differentiates from traditional PT offerings. - **Deep integration** with major national health plans and PBMs, creating high switching costs. - **Business model aligned with outcomes** – revenue is tied to healing people, not billing procedures, enabling investment in direct care automation. ## Strategic Focus - Scale and automate healthcare delivery by building AI agents that perceive movement, reason biomechanics, and adapt clinical guidance in real time. - Expand into adjacent conditions (pelvic health) and deepen partnership integrations. - Continue engineering a culture where “designers code” and “engineers build interactive prototypes,” deploying agent-first workflows across hundreds of engineers. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Emphasis on autonomy, mastery, and purpose. The R&D blog describes an environment where engineers review reasoning logs instead of diffs and where AI agents ship PRs without human line edits. - **Work Model**: Hybrid/office presence – HQ in San Francisco with offices in India, Canada, UK, and Colombia. Specific remote policy not detailed in sources. - **Impact**: Opportunity to work on regulatory-grade AI that directly improves clinical outcomes for millions of people. - **Reviews**: Employer rating of 3.8/5 on LinkedIn; strong scores for work-life balance (3.7) and compensation (3.7). - **Notable Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the culture of “impact at scale” and investment in R&D suggests strong engineering support. ## Sources 1. [hingehealth.com](https://www.hingehealth.com/) 2. [hingehealth.com/about](https://www.hingehealth.com/about/) 3. [rnd.hingehealth.com](https://rnd.hingehealth.com/) 4. [linkedin.com/company/hinge-health](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hinge-health) 5. 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