Senior AI Software Engineer
Join Sword Health as a Senior AI Software Engineer to design and improve AI agents for innovative healthcare solutions.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 14 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 14 hours ago
What you'll build
- Design and improve AI agents
- Build and scale production backend
- Integrate agents into software flows
- Own architecture and design decisions
- Grow the AI function
Must have
- 4+ years building and running production software
- Deep expertise in software architecture and design
- Solid experience with Python and SQL
- Experience leading complex projects
- Fluent communication in English
Nice to have
- Experience shipping LLM-powered features
- Experience in healthcare or regulated domain
- Experience designing experiments
- Experience serving several clients from one codebase
AI in the day-to-day
AI fluency is a core expectation; candidates must demonstrate how AI is part of their work.
Requirements
- Experience
- 4+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior AI Software Engineer at Sword Health focuses on designing and enhancing AI agents, including real-time voice systems, while ensuring the backend infrastructure is robust and scalable. Key skills include expertise in software architecture, real-time voice integration, and familiarity with large language models, alongside proficiency in Python and cloud platforms like GCP. This position is ideal for experienced engineers with a background in leading complex projects and mentoring others, particularly those with experience in healthcare or regulated environments. Sword Health is advancing its AI-driven healthcare solutions, emphasizing a collaborative and innovative tea
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 1, 2026. Last confirmed on Sword Health's careers page October 1, 2026.
- Starts above 1% of 443 comparable senior ai/ml roles we track (median $180,200 across 120 companies).
Quick facts
- Is the Senior AI Software Engineer role remote?
- Yes — Sword Health lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Sword Health lists €50,400–€79,200 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 4 years of relevant experience for this Senior AI Software Engineer role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: GCP, Python, SQL.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Sword Health targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior AI Software Engineer role at Sword Health.
From the original posting
At Sword, we’re building AI to heal billions and unlock humanity’s full potential. In doing so, we’re pioneering AI Care, a fundamentally new approach to healthcare built for medical reasoning, safety, and real-time treatment, not generic technology applied after the fact. As both a clinical-centric frontier AI lab and an applied AI platform, Sword is reimagining how care is delivered at scale, removing traditional barriers like appointments, waiting rooms, and stigma so more people can access the care they need—and ultimately get back to lives lived in full.
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What you’ll be doing:
- Design, deliver and continuously improve our AI agents, including real-time voice agents, and the LLM-powered products around them;
- Build and scale the production backend and platform behind the agents, with high volume, high throughput and reliability in mind;
- Integrate agents into our software flows, and bring new models into the platform with the benchmarks and evals to assess them;
- Own architecture and design decisions across agents, voice pipeline and platform;
- Grow the AI function by defining practices, raising the bar in review and mentoring colleagues.
What you need to have:
- 4+ years building and running production software;
- Deep expertise in at least one of the following:
- software architecture and design of high-throughput, scalable systems;
- building agents and integrating them into production software;
- real-time voice agents (telephony, STT, TTS, latency budgets);
- Working understanding of how LLMs are built and how they behave;
- Solid experience with Python, SQL and event-driven design;
- Experience with cloud platforms (ideally GCP);
- Experience leading complex, ambiguous projects from ideation through to maintenance;
- Experience providing technical oversight and mentoring colleagues;
- Fluent, confident communication in English.
- Experience shipping LLM-powered features with proper observability and evals;
- Experience in healthcare or another regulated domain;
- Experience designing experiments and reading their results correctly;
- Experience serving several clients from one codebase.
*The range below reflects base, variable, and equity for this role.
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