Applied AI Software Engineer

Blossom Health

$120K — $145K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field
  • 2+ years of professional software engineering experience in high-quality environments
  • Experience building and shipping LLM-powered applications or AI products in production
  • Fluency in Python and/or TypeScript
  • Familiarity with modern LLM APIs and agentic systems
  • Ability to evaluate AI performance based on reliability, latency, and cost
  • Comfortable experimenting with new models and techniques and moving across different tech stacks

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship AI-native product experiences for clinicians and patients
  • Design and develop LLM-powered systems to automate complex healthcare workflows
  • Own AI features from prototyping through production deployment and iteration
  • Create evaluation and monitoring systems to enhance AI quality and performance
  • Collaborate with clinicians and engineers to identify AI impact areas
  • Translate emerging AI capabilities into production-ready solutions
  • Work with various models and tools to address real-world product challenges

Benefits

  • Competitive salary, equity, and growth opportunities
  • Best-in-class health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Outcome-focused work culture with unlimited PTO
  • Team outings and a well-stocked NYC office
Full Job Description
What you\'ll do:
  • Build and ship AI-native product experiences used directly by clinicians and patients
  • Design and develop LLM-powered systems and agents that automate and augment complex healthcare workflows
  • Own AI features end-to-end, from prototyping and experimentation through production deployment, evaluation, and iteration
  • Build robust evaluation, monitoring, and feedback systems to continuously improve AI quality, reliability, and performance
  • Work across models, prompts, tools, retrieval systems, and application infrastructure to solve real-world product problems
  • Move quickly from emerging AI capabilities to production-ready experiences that deliver measurable value
  • Collaborate closely with clinicians and engineers to understand complex healthcare workflows and determine where AI can have the greatest impact
You\'ll thrive here if you:
  • Have a bachelor\'s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field
  • Have 2+ years of professional software engineering experience outperforming in high-quality environments
  • Have experience building and shipping LLM-powered applications or AI products in production
  • Are fluent in Python and/or TypeScript
  • Have worked with modern LLM APIs, agentic systems, tool calling, retrieval, structured outputs, or similar applied AI patterns
  • Think rigorously about evals, reliability, latency, cost, and failure modes, not just whether a prototype works
  • Are comfortable moving across the stack and quickly experimenting with new models, frameworks, and techniques
  • Love autonomy, ambiguity, experimentation, and ownership
  • Are authorized to work in the U.S. and excited to be in-person in NYC 5 days a week
Benefits:
  • Competitive salary, equity, growth opportunities
  • Best-in-class health, dental, and vision insurance
  • A focus on outcomes, not hours, with unlimited PTO
  • Team outings, offsites, and a sunny NYC office stocked with snacks

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