Staff Software Engineer, Brain Health, AI

The Opportunity

Join the team transforming how we treat chronic pain by addressing its root cause: the brain. Hinge Health is expanding beyond physical therapy to build a comprehensive Brain Health ecosystem. In this mission-critical role, you will lead the architecture and development of agentic AI systems that deliver personalized pain reprocessing therapy and mindfulness interventions. You will bridge the gap between clinical science and software engineering, building the engine that helps millions of members retrain how their nervous systems process pain.

What You'll Accomplish

• Architect Next-Gen AI Therapies: Build and scale the agentic AI systems that power multi-session conversational therapy, ensuring they maintain context, demonstrate emotional intelligence, and align with clinical protocols.

• Build a Unified Education Platform: Design the centralized service that delivers personalized pain science education and mindset strategies, adapting content to each member's therapeutic goals.

• Drive Technical Strategy: Define the long-term technical vision for Brain Health in partnership with product and clinical leadership, balancing immediate delivery with scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure.

• Lead & Mentor: Act as a technical beacon for the team, mentoring engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, and driving cross-functional collaboration across data science, clinical, and platform teams.

• Participate in the team’s weekly on-call rotation, helping ensure the reliability and timely support of the systems we build.

Who You Are

• A Strategic Builder: You don't just write code; you architect systems that scale. You have a deep understanding of distributed systems and can navigate the complexity of building AI-driven products in a regulated healthcare environment.

• A "Learn-it-all": You stay on the bleeding edge of AI and software engineering, constantly evaluating emerging technologies to optimize performance and improve the platform.

• A Cross-Functional Leader: You thrive in multidisciplinary environments, translating complex technical concepts for clinical and product stakeholders to ensure our solutions are both clinically sound and technically robust.

• An Owner-Operator: You take pride in your work, from architecture to production support, embodying a DevOps culture where you own the reliability and performance of your code.

Basic Qualifications

• Have 4+ years of practical software engineering experience, including meaningful time shipping AI-powered products to real users.

• At minimum a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or related field

• Have led the design and delivery of complex, user-facing products end-to-end — across product surfaces, backend services, and AI/ML systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Have worked in early-stage or fast-moving, rapidly evolving environments, and have ideally built products from 0 to 1.

• Are technically proficient in modern AI application development, with demonstrated depth in working with LLMs (prompt engineering, RAG, agentic systems, evals) and a strong fullstack foundation (e.g., Python, TypeScript/NestJS).

• Take a product-focused approach to building AI solutions that are robust, safe, and genuinely useful in users' hands.

• Have successfully driven cross-team alignment to get impactful work shipped, and work with influence over authority.

• Have experience establishing engineering standards, system architectures, and development best practices — especially around evaluation, safety, and reliability for AI systems.

• Thrive in fast-paced environments and can navigate ambiguity to deliver high-quality products.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Contributions to open-source AI or software engineering projects.

Hinge Health Hybrid Model

We believe that remote work and in-person work have their own advantages and disadvantages, and we want to be able to leverage the best of both worlds. Employees in hybrid roles are required to be in the office 3 days per week, for the full 8 hours of a typical business day. The San Francisco office has a dog-friendly workplace program.

About Hinge Health

At Hinge Health, we’re using technology to scale and automate the delivery of healthcare, starting with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, which affect over 1.7 billion people worldwide. Our AI-powered, human-centered care model spans MSK, pelvic health, gastrointestinal (GI) and migraine care. With over 60 partnerships with health plans, PBMs and other ecosystem partners, Hinge Health is available to over 25 million people across more than 2,900 employers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Montreal and Bangalore. Learn more at hingehealth.com.

What You’ll Love About Us

• Inclusive healthcare and benefits: On top of comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, we offer employees and their family members help with gender-affirming care, tools for family and fertility planning, and travel reimbursements if healthcare isn’t available where you live.

• Planning for the future: Start saving for the future with our traditional or Roth 401k retirement plan options which include a 2% company match.

• Modern life stipends: Manage your own learning and development.

• Grow with us: Grow with us through discounted company stock through our ESPP with easy payroll deductions.

Culture & Engagement

Hinge Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We make employment decisions without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you feel you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, let us know by reaching out to your recruiter.

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