Key skills
Generative AILarge Language ModelsReactTypescriptPython/DjangoTechnical LeadershipEntrepreneurial MindsetEngineering Best PracticesProblem-solvingCommunication SkillsTypeScriptPythonAIGenAIDjangoLeadershipMentoringPrototypingCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Cedar is a leading healthcare technology company focused on improving the healthcare system. The role involves driving innovation through Generative AI, enhancing a voice AI agent, and providing technical leadership while mentoring peers.
Responsibilities:
- Driving Innovation: Experimenting with and launching GenAI-powered features in collaboration with AI scientists
- Harnessing Generative AI: Engineering development and production workflows by integrating LLMs, providing necessary context and constraints using modern practices, and evaluating output for further refinement
- Advancing Patient Understanding: Enhancing Kora, our first-in-class voice AI agent, to deliver personalized billing guidance via empathetic and compassionate communication
- Inspiring and Leading Others: Actively contributing to team chartering, managing technical projects, and mentoring peer engineers to take ownership of their own projects
- Raising the Technical Bar: Taking creative initiative, such as by evaluating new approaches to agent-based engineering, or developing rapid prototyping techniques for new features
Requirements:
- Strong technical leadership with a track record of driving measurable impact across the stack
- Experience in Generative AI and Large Language Models, either via use to increase productivity and efficiency or by integrating APIs into a product
- Demonstrated proficiency in independent, hands-on coding and problem-solving, including handling complex edge cases, optimizing for efficiency, and delivering robust solutions within time constraints
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly, concisely, and with compelling examples, as well as asking insightful clarifying questions
- A strong commitment to engineering best practices, including writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, and a proactive approach to managing technical debt
- Entrepreneurial mindset – You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and love solving complex problems
- Experience with modern languages and frameworks – React, Typescript, Python/Django or similar
- Passion for our mission – You care about making healthcare simpler, fairer, and more transparent for patients
- 4-6 years of experience preferred, but not required