Staff Engineer, Pair Team
Artificial Intelligence
$205-240k
+ Equity Compensation Package
Platform automating clinical operations
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Platform automating clinical operations
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$205-240k
+ Equity Compensation Package
21-100 employees
Company mission
To simplify healthcare for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Leadership & Influence: A recognized leader, respected for technical ability, direction-setting, and ability to navigate ambiguity
- Leads cross-team initiatives and influences without authority across engineering, product, operations, and medical
- Technical Expertise: recognized as an expert in their domain area but able to operate effectively in other domains when needed
- Execution & Ownership: Owns high-impact, cross-system projects
- Drives progress across a domain and ensures delivery on both technical and business outcomes
- Force Multiplier: Uplifts not only engineers but also PMs and designers
- Leads by example to raise the bar across disciplines
- Communication & Alignment: Communicates clearly across technical and non-technical audiences
- Aligns stakeholders even when goals and definitions are evolving; creates clarity from chaos
- Systems Thinking: Designs scalable solutions with a deep understanding of interconnected systems
- Anticipates downstream effects and communicates complex dynamics clearly
- Business Impact: Deeply understands business and operational goals
- Connects them to day-to-day technical work, ensuring alignment and measurable outcomes
- Player & Coach: Seamlessly shifts between strategy and execution — no problem too big or small
- Equally effective leading execution (e
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- , as a pod lead) or through deep technical contributions
- Analytical & Data-Driven: Extracts and analyzes data independently
- Synthesizes KPIs and qualitative insights to inform decisions and improve products
- Growth-Oriented: Continuously seeks new challenges and growth
- Acts as a multiplier for the team’s impact and helps shape the technical culture
- Bias for Action: Delivers value iteratively, avoiding over-engineering
- Breaks down complex problems into shippable steps and balances planning with execution
- 5+ years of experience as a high-performing builder in a fast-paced startup environment
- Deep familiarity with modern AI tools and frameworks (e.g., OpenAI, Llama, vector DBs, fine tuning pipelines, etc)
- Proven ability to technically lead teams going from zero to one—rapidly prototyping and delivering AI-driven features and systems
- Able to translate complex user needs into creative AI-driven features
- Skilled evaluating model performance, designing feedback loops, and managing trade-offs between speed, quality, and risk
- Comfortable working across the stack; experience with Ruby on Rails or similar backend frameworks is a plus
- Experience working in iterative environments, with a bias toward shipping value early and often
- Passionate about building technology that improves care for individuals navigating chronic health and social challenges—including homelessness, severe mental illness, and substance use disorder
What the job involves
- Pair Team is looking for a builder to deliver value at the intersection of healthcare and artificial intelligence
- In this role, you’ll focus on fast iteration—prototyping and launching zero-to-one AI-powered experiences that directly improve outcomes for patients and unlock scale for our care teams
- You’ll leverage your deep knowledge of AI models, tools, and best practices to design intelligent workflows, automate decision-making, and enhance user experience
- From LLM-integrated features to behind-the-scenes intelligent routing, you’ll be a key agent of Pair’s AI strategy—helping us learn quickly, ship responsibly, and deliver high-quality results even in ambiguous or high-risk environments
- Drive end-to-end development of mission-critical, AI-powered features that improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency
- Lead rapid prototyping efforts while also setting the foundation for scalable, maintainable AI systems
- Apply modern AI patterns (LLMs, embeddings, RAG, agents, fine-tuning, etc.) in creative, practical ways
- Build robust evaluation pipelines to ensure trust, safety, and real-world utility of every AI feature we ship
- Build robust evaluation pipelines and quality gates to ensure we ship AI features that are trustworthy and useful especially in high risk care delivery scenarios
- Set technical direction and mentor others on AI development best practices, experimentation frameworks, and production readiness
- This is a unique opportunity to build mission-critical AI in one of the most meaningful sectors—using cutting-edge tools to increase access to care for vulnerable populations
Our take
Pair Team is a healthcare technology company providing an end-to-end encryption platform that automates clinical operations. The platform is designed to help healthcare providers and organizations streamline their workflows while increasing efficiency and reducing errors.
Built on top of secure, encrypted messaging technology, Pair Team's platform enables healthcare providers to share patient data, medical records, and other sensitive information safely and securely. Another benefit of the platform is its ability to integrate with existing healthcare systems and technologies, allowing healthcare providers to seamlessly incorporate the platform into their existing workflows, without the need for significant changes to their infrastructure.
The company's innovative approach to healthcare technology has attracted the backing of more than 60 healthcare leaders and has witnessed growing success among healthcare providers. Going forward, Pair Team is focused on accelerating its expansion across California and scaling its current team.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2023
$9m
SERIES A
Dec 2021
$7.3m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $19m
Company benefits
- Fully remote team
- 401k
- Health Insurance
- Unlimited PTO
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Neil Batlivala
(CEO)Previously founded the consulting company, Noxon. Also worked as an Advisor at Spect, and as a Software Engineer at Forward.
Cassie Choi
(COO)Currently a member of the Clinician Innovators Roundtable of Health Equity at the White House. Previously worked as a Director of Operations at Circle Medical and in Product and Clinical Operations at Forward.
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