Staff Engineer, Ambience Healthcare
Agent Productivity
$250-300k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
AI operating system for healthcare
Be an early applicant
AI operating system for healthcare
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$250-300k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To supercharge clinicians with breakthrough generative AI technology.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of software engineering experience with Staff-level impact across teams
- Deep experience building developer productivity, platform, CI, test, or internal tooling systems that engineers adopted
- Strong backend/platform fundamentals in TypeScript, Rust, Go, Python, or similar
- Daily user of Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or equivalent on real production codebases
- Clear opinions on where agents help, where they fail, and what infrastructure makes them reliable
- Sound security judgment — can translate risk into practical controls without freezing progress
What the job involves
- Ambience is building AI systems that help clinicians deliver better care
- To do that well, our engineers — and the AI agents working alongside them — need fast, reliable, low-friction systems for building, testing, verifying, and shipping software
- You'll own the developer-productivity substrate for Ambience: dev environments, build/test workflows, CI, internal tooling, repo standards, verification systems, and safe tool access for agent-assisted development
- The core idea: the same infrastructure that makes engineers effective also makes agents useful
- Fast local stacks, deterministic tests, clear repo context, and repeatable verification loops turn agents from code generators into force multipliers
- Developer Environments — Own the local dev experience: devboxes, local DBs, Docker workflows, dependencies, secrets, and agent ergonomics
- Build, Test, and CI — Make feedback loops faster and more reliable. Reduce flaky tests, improve CI failure modes, and align local validation with CI
- Verification Infrastructure — Build reusable checks for high-risk workflows: frontend flows, migrations, schema changes, integration paths, API contracts, and structured evidence that lets reviewers trust agent-generated code
- Internal Tooling — Replace bespoke scripts and tribal knowledge with paved-road workflows: CLIs, scaffolds, templates, codegen, migration helpers, and release utilities that make the right workflow the default
- Agent Tool Access — Create scoped, auditable access to local DBs, browsers, GitHub, CI, logs, and docs while keeping PHI and production-data workflows controlled
Our take
Healthcare providers often find themselves overwhelmed by administrative duties like form filing and record coding, detracting from their primary focus on patient care. While these tasks are essential for billing and compliance, they are time-consuming and prone to errors.
In response to this challenge, Ambience Healthcare offers an AI-powered "operating system" designed specifically for healthcare organizations. Its suite of tools automates documentation, coding, and referrals, streamlining workflows for clinicians while enhancing accuracy.
With substantial funding, the company is expanding its business in the US and hopes top potentially include diagnosis in the future. While facing competition from startups like Corti and Babla, Ambience is well-positioned with strong investor backing and a clear focus.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2025
$243m
SERIES C
Feb 2024
$70m
SERIES B
Total funding: $343m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Nikhil Buduma
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Lean On Me Peer Support where they served as a Board Member for over 8 years and Remedy Health where they served as the Chief Scientist for almost 4 years.
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