Staff AI Engineer (Orchestration)

Healthcare needs a better rhythm: one that keeps care continuous and deeply human. Heidi is building an AI Care Partner that works alongside clinicians to make that possible.

We’re a team of doctors, engineers, designers, researchers, and creatives building tools that help clinicians stay focused on what matters most: their patients.

In just 18 months, Heidi has given back more than 18 million hours to healthcare professionals — supporting 73 million patient visits in 116 countries. Today, more than two million patient visits each week are powered by Heidi worldwide.

Backed by nearly $100 million in funding, we’re growing in the US, UK, Canada, and Europe, partnering with leading health systems including the NHS, Beth Israel Lahey Health, and Monash Health.

You will operate as a Staff+ AI scientist/engineer on the Orchestration team. You will own the design and delivery of a clinician‑grade retrieval and question‑answering stack across data ingestion, indexing, ranking, grounding, and safe deployment.

You will set technical direction, establish quality bars, and lead cross‑functional execution with engineering, product, and clinical experts.

You will move between research and production, turning prototypes into reliable services with clear SLAs, traceable outputs, and unit/acceptance metrics that matter in clinical contexts.

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• Search relevance expertise for long‑form, citation‑heavy domains.

• Knowledge of biomedical ontologies and standards (e.g., SNOMED CT, UMLS, ICD, RxNorm, FHIR).

• Prior work with literature and guideline corpora, de‑duplication, and document lineage tracking.

• Experience with hybrid retrieval stacks (e.g., BM25 + ANN) and learned re‑rankers.

• Familiarity with clinical evaluation methods, EBM hierarchies, and annotation workflows.

• Strong cost‑performance tuning for LLM inference, caching, and batching in production.

We design for safety and reliability so clinicians, patients, and our teams can trust what we build every day.

Ideas rise on merit, not title, and everyone shares responsibility for the standards we set together.

We move quickly but never at the cost of trust. Progress only matters if people can depend on what we make.

Honest feedback, steady support, and shared growth keep our teams improving together.

• Flexible hybrid working environment, with 3 days in the office.

• A generous personal development budget of $500 per annum

• Learn from some of the best engineers and creatives, joining a diverse team

• Become an owner, with shares (equity) in the company, if Heidi wins, we all win

• The rare chance to create a global impact as you immerse yourself in one of Australia’s leading healthtech startups

• If you have an impact quickly, the opportunity to fast track your startup career!

Heidi is dedicated to creating an equitable, inclusive, and supportive work environment that brings people together from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Our strength is in our differences.

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants as we're committed to promoting a culture of opportunity for all.