Founding Engineer, Agent Systems
Full-time
USD 150k-220k / year + Equity
About the Role
You'll build and own the core agent infrastructure powering Doctours' AI systems—the orchestration layer, tool integrations, retrieval, and evals that run our patient-facing and internal agents. This is a systems and infrastructure role focused on designing agentic workflows that automate clinic-side and internal operations end-to-end, distinct from live conversation AI work. You'll ship reliable agent systems and continuously improve them through monitoring and evaluation.
What You'll Do
- Design and implement the orchestration layer for multi-step agentic workflows across clinic operations and internal processes.
- Integrate external tools and APIs into agent systems, ensuring reliable tool calling and error handling.
- Build retrieval and evaluation infrastructure to measure and improve agent reliability and accuracy.
- Automate recurring manual work by identifying opportunities and shipping systems to eliminate them.
- Monitor agent performance in production and iterate on system design based on real-world behavior.
What We're Looking For
- Strong math and CS fundamentals, demonstrated through elite academic performance, competition experience, or fast self-directed learning.
- Personal projects, research, or open-source work building agent or LLM systems—orchestration, tool integrations, RAG, or evals all count as strong evidence.
- An automation instinct: you spot recurring manual work and naturally think in systems.
- No professional experience required; recent graduates and self-taught builders are welcome.
Compensation & Benefits
$150,000–$220,000 base salary + meaningful founding-team equity.
The Stack
The stack is TypeScript hosted on Vercel, agents built on Mastra, with roughly 10,000 active conversations at any given time.
About Doctours
Doctours is a small team of five to eight people, founded by Girum Tihtina (ex-Meta payments engineering), Maurice Landers III (CTO, Harvey Mudd CS, design-engineer), and Tillman Degens. Tens of thousands of patients have already used Doctours to get care they could otherwise not afford.
Location
Full-time, in-person at our San Francisco headquarters, five days per week.