Staff Software Engineer, Color

• 8+ years of industry experience building and scaling complex software systems
• Strong frontend experience (React or similar), with excellent debugging and UI wiring skills
• Strong backend and systems development experience (Python, Django, AWS, REST APIs)
• Experience delivering production-grade AI/ML-enabled features and working with inference pipelines
• A product mindset with the ability to balance speed, quality, and user impact
• Ability to navigate through and thrive in the highly ambiguous environments associated with early stage products
• Experience collaborating with infra, security, and IT stakeholders to build robust systems
• Proven track record of designing software architecture and contributing across the tech stack
• Effective communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• A passion for building tools that make healthcare more equitable, efficient, and impactful

Desirable

• We’re hiring a full-stack Staff AI Product Engineer to build new AI-enabled products that improve the way patients and clinicians interact with healthcare
• You’ll join Color’s Cancer Copilot team, a highly collaborative, cross-functional group of engineers, designers, product managers, and clinicians exploring how the latest advances in AI can drive meaningful impact in cancer care
• Cancer presents unique challenges across the healthcare system—fragmented handoffs between providers, complex diagnostic pathways, and emotionally charged decisions for patients and families
• It's a moment of high uncertainty and vulnerability for those affected
• The Cancer Copilot team is working to improve the efficiency of care delivery, enhancing patient understanding and empowerment, and ultimately helping to improve clinical outcomes
• We're building innovative tools that combine the best of human expertise and machine intelligence to support patients and providers through some of the most complex and important decisions in healthcare
• This is an end-to-end role: you’ll be responsible for architecting and shipping AI features from idea through to production, including AI infrastructure and platform build, collaborating across disciplines and across the stack to build impactful, intelligent systems
• Design and build AI-powered products that enhance clinical workflows and improve patient experience
• Product development across the full stack: wiring the front end experience, developing the Python backend, building APIs, and infrastructure design and engineering
• Collaborate closely with ML engineers to deploy, test, and monitor AI models in production environments
• Architect privacy- and security-conscious systems that meet healthcare compliance standards
• Partner with cross-functional teams to quickly prototype and iterate on user-facing AI interactions
• Attend external partnership meetings, especially with partnering IT teams to establish technical strategy
• Provide technical leadership across engineering, mentoring others and raising the quality bar
• Contribute to the direction of our AI and platform engineering strategy
• Build Cancer Copilot systems that improve efficiency of providers and care teams as patients journey through cancer diagnosis, work-up, treatment, trials, and survivorship
• Build patient-facing tools that leverage a combination of AI and clinical expertise to better educate and guide patients through care
• Design and launch AI products that integrate into Color Medical’s internal operations to improve efficiency and outcomes of Virtual Cancer Care