Staff AI Engineer, Sirona Medical

• Ideally, you are comfortable working across the stack, with a preference toward backend systems and infrastructure, but with experience or interest in frontend development
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent building AI/ML-powered systems in production
• Extensive experience designing and implementing scalable APIs, with strong experience in SQL and/or NoSQL databases
• Deep understanding of MLOps best practices including model serving, observability, versioning, and lifecycle management
• Experience designing and implementing agentic workflows, leveraging multi-agent systems, LLM-based orchestration, and tools like LangChain, CrewAI, or AutoGen
• Strong understanding of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), planning-execution loops, and decision-making architectures for task automation
• Proficiency in Python and modern backend frameworks (e.g., Django, FastAPI)
• Strong understanding of data structures, distributed systems, and asynchronous processing (e.g., Celery)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience writing design documents, RFCs, and collaborating across disciplines

Desirable

• We are seeking a Staff AI Engineer to architect, develop, and lead the implementation of groundbreaking AI-driven capabilities at Sirona Medical
• In this pivotal role, you’ll work at the forefront of applied AI—leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), multimodal AI, and advanced agentic workflows to build real-world healthcare solutions that improve clinical outcomes and operational efficiency
• You’ll collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary team of engineers, AI researchers, product designers, and radiologists to deliver high-impact features, scalable APIs, and next-generation AI-integrated tooling
• As a senior member of the team, you’ll help define our technical architecture, shape the roadmap, mentor engineers, and lead the application of cutting-edge AI in one of the most consequential areas of medicine
• Develop and scale internal and external APIs and SDKs that power intelligent features and real-time clinical automation
• Architect, prototype, and implement agentic AI workflows using cutting-edge LLM and multimodal AI technologies
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and AI research teams to ship production-ready LLM- and CV-powered features in a modern cloud environment
• Own and evolve our AI training, evaluation, benchmarking and inference infrastructure, helping the team continuously raise the bar on performance, quality and safety
• Support applied research and R&D efforts through internal tooling development
• Work cross-functionally with product and domain experts to prototype novel use cases (e.g., imaging workflow automation, clinical summarization, EMR integration)
• Mentor other engineers and help set technical direction across AI product initiatives

• Stock Options
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Medical / Dental / Vision / Life Insurance
• 401K Matching
• Best-in-Class Productivity Tools
• Flexible Work Schedules
• Career Development

Total funding: $104.5m

Radiology and medical imaging - which accounts for a massive amount of all medical data - has been relying on legacy techs for decades, with fragmented software and applications piled on top of each other without integration. Sirona intends to revolutionize tech for radiology, with its all-in-one AI-enabled OS platform.