Staff Software Engineer — AI Clinical Trial Products (Hybrid)

Job overview

The Staff Software Engineer — AI Clinical Trial Products role is hybrid, with three in-office days each week in San Francisco, CA. The base salary is $210,000–$260,000 per year, plus 1–1.5% equity. The role supports a small engineering team building AI agents to automate clinical trial workflows for a healthcare and life-sciences company. As the team’s technical anchor, this hands-on engineer builds and reviews code, mentors three junior engineers, and establishes engineering practices. The role contributes to shipping customer-facing AI products by partnering with product, customer success, and company founders and delivering full-stack applications and production AI features.

What you'll do

• Build and own AI-powered products end to end, including agentic workflows and LLM features with production evaluations
• lead and mentor three junior engineers
• establish code review and engineering practices
• partner with the CTO, product manager, customer success, and founders
• architect and deliver full-stack applications across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data pipelines.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

staff software engineer

ai agents

llm features

full-stack engineering

clinical trials

healthcare technology

technical leadership

mentorship

hybrid

san francisco ca

$210k–$260k

equity

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Base salary plus 1–1.5% equity.
• The posting does not specify additional benefits.

Why this role

Founding technical-lead opportunity on a small team; the platform is described as being used across more than 400 research sites.

About the employer

David Joseph & Company is hiring for this role. Industry: Software Publishers. Sector: 51.