Valerie Health

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 90 days ago

RESTMachine LearningLLMsComplianceHIPAACommunicationAdaptability

About the role

As a founding engineer, you will get a front seat into building a world-class startup.
You will help shape the technical foundation of Valerie Health, and drive both our product and business from inception to scale.
You will play a lead role in designing and implementing a robust backend infrastructure, building AI models across various modalities and use-cases (OCR, Voice, LLM, RPA) with RLHF, and creating delightful user experiences.

Collaborate closely with the rest of the team to shape product, business, and company direction. Help define and shape the culture of the company.
Own end to end product surface areas that serve external and internal users. Build deeply empathetic and polished user experiences that raise the bar across the industry.
Design, build and scale a HIPAA-compliant backend infrastructure that's highly secure with strong availability and performance.
Demonstrated experience in building end-to-end products.
Collaborate closely with the rest of the team to shape product, business, and company direction.
Self-Starter & Adaptable: Proactively own projects from inception to completion, identify challenges, and offer solutions, thriving in a dynamic work environment.
We partner with leading independent provider groups across the U.S., automating hundreds of thousands of tasks each month.
Beyond our Founders, our team brings decades of experience from Stripe, Uber, and Meta, combining deep expertise in ML systems, large-scale infrastructure, and product design.
Build a production-ready AI infrastructure, integrating and fine-tuning models across voice, text, and desktop agents.

Deep empathy for users, with the ability to translate their needs into product features and prioritize effectively.

10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong background in computer science.
Previous experience in big tech or startups is a plus.

Eagerness to learn new approaches, seek feedback, and continually improve skill sets.

Competitive salary, equity and benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) and PTO

Competitive salary, equity and benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) and PTO
SF office: Daily catered lunch and dinner reimbursement
Vision models to interpret unstructured healthcare data and build a deep clinical ontology
Build a reinforcement learning system with internal and external humans in the loop.

Valerie Health is the AI front office for independent provider groups.
We are reimagining how independent practices operate by using AI to modernize patient/provider communication, enhance care, and drive industry-changing operational efficiencies.
Why join us now?
Team: We are led by Pete Shalek https://www.linkedin.com/in/petershalek/ (2x health tech exits, including a $600M acquisition by Optum) and Nitin Joshi https://www.linkedin.com/in/njoshi023/ (scaled Uber Eats + Health, Stripe Connect, and Bridge-acquired by Stripe for $1.1B). Beyond our Founders, our team brings decades of experience from Stripe, Uber, and Meta, combining deep expertise in ML systems, large-scale infrastructure, and product design.
Trajectory: We partner with leading independent provider groups across the U.S., automating hundreds of thousands of tasks each month. Scaling at 7x year-over-year with 300% NRR as customers consistently expand usage.
Funding: We have raised $39m from world-class investors including Redpoint Ventures, General Catalyst, Primary Ventures, and BoxGroup.
Our technical stack combines:
Language and speech models for automated, empathetic text and voice communication with patients
LLM-based workflows that integrate directly with EMRs
RPA and desktop automation to bridge fragmented and legacy systems
Scaling at 7x year-over-year with 300% NRR as customers consistently expand usage.

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