Software Engineer, Applied AI

AKASA is building AI-native healthcare solutions for complex clinical documentation and medical coding work. The Applied AI Engineer will build AI-powered features, services, APIs, and tools across the company’s SaaS products, including LLM-driven systems and agentic revenue cycle workflows. The role also involves deploying evaluation frameworks, experimentation loops, and production-grade AI systems in partnership with product, clinical, and revenue cycle experts.

Responsibilities

Build features and products driven by LLMs. You will touch the whole stack, from designing agentic systems for revenue cycle workflows to the infrastructure that runs them in production across hundreds of hospitals

Work alongside strong subject matter experts on complex, challenging problems that span from high-stakes clinical diagnoses to regulated medical billing with no easy answers

Deploy the evaluation frameworks and experimentation loops that deliver reliable, production-grade systems. You'll use data-driven and statistical approaches to balance across medical coding guidelines, user feedback, and auditability

Partner directly with product, clinical, and revenue cycle experts to push the frontier of what AI can do inside the healthcare revenue cycle

Preferred

Healthcare technology experience (EDI,HL7,FHIR)

Healthcare Technology

EDI

HL7

FHIR

Benefits

Flexible paid time off (PTO)

Expansive coverage for health, dental, and vision

Employer contribution to Health Savings Accounts (HSA)

Generous parental leave policy

Full employee coverage for life insurance

Home office stipend

Cell phone/internet reimbursement

Company-paid holidays

401(K) plan

Equity

Company

Generative AI for healthcare revenue cycle management

South San Francisco, California, USA

https://akasa.com/

Founded in 2019

51-200 employees

Qualifications

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science/Software Engineering or related field

3+ years in a technical role with a strong foundation in AI and data analysis or backend systems

1+ years shipping production AI systems to end users

Experience designing offline/online evaluations and landing agentic systems

Proficiency in Python

Thrives in a startup environment working on challenging problems

Healthcare technology experience (EDI,HL7,FHIR)

Required skills

Represents the skills you have, click on the tags, Artificial Intelligence, Production AI Systems, Data Analysis, Backend Systems, Offline and Online Evaluation, Agentic Systems, EDI, HL7, FHIR

Preferred skills

Healthcare technology experience (EDI,HL7,FHIR)

Experience

3+ years