AI Infra Engineer
$200k - $275k USD
About Healthleap
HealthLeap builds AI that helps clinicians prioritize patients, surfaces the right data, and gets patients the care they need earlier, so they can leave the hospital sooner.
We integrate with hospital electronic health record systems, screen 100% of patients daily, and risk-rank them in real time. Clinicians at Cedars-Sinai and Penn Medicine start every morning with HealthLeap — with Houston Methodist, Emory, and Intermountain Health deploying now.
Real results: 39% more diagnoses. 4 days earlier detection. $11M/year ROI for our first site at Cedars Sinai. 7× revenue growth in 7 months.
We started with malnutrition. We're expanding to every major condition to ensure no patient falls through the cracks. Sequoia and First Round are backing us to build the platform that screens every patient for everything and drives tangible outcomes.
We're ~15 people. >$7M raised. SF-based, hybrid-friendly. Early enough to shape the product. Late enough to know it works. Results that are changing lives.
About the Role
Build the infrastructure that screens every hospital patient, every day.
HealthLeap processes billions of data points from hospital EHRs. Data flows through secure connections, transforms through data pipelines, and powers ML models that clinicians rely on every morning. You'll work alongside our data scientists and ML engineers to build and operate the infrastructure that makes this possible.
Why you
You've built AI infrastructure at a startup where you owned everything. The person who set up the AWS accounts, wrote the Terraform, deployed the ML models, and debugged the VPN at 2am. You've taken models from Jupyter notebooks to production. You're the person who figures things out when the docs don't help.
What you'll do
Deploy new hospitals: site-to-site VPNs, networking, container services, data pipelines
Build reliable data infrastructure that ingests, transforms, and serves data at scale (S3, Iceberg, Spark, Dagster, Airflow)
Partner with data scientists and ML engineers to productionize models and get them running reliably at scale
Own AWS infrastructure: multi-account orgs, ECS/EKS, Terraform, networking
Set up observability: monitoring, alerting, logging that actually helps debug issues
Make hospital deployments faster and more reliable
What we're looking for
5+ years engineering experience, with significant infrastructure work
Deep AWS experience: networking, IAM, ECS/EKS, S3, and the rest
Solid with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code
Experience with data pipelines and orchestration (Dagster, Airflow, or similar)
You've operated production systems, not just built them
You figure things out, even when documentation doesn't exist
Nice to have
MLOps experience: deploying and monitoring ML models in production
Healthcare data standards (FHIR, HL7v2)
Experience with Kubernetes, service mesh, or complex networking
Background at an early-stage startup where you owned infra end-to-end
This role is NOT for you if
Startup unpredictability feels like chaos to you. We find it exciting.
You've never owned something end-to-end. Here, you own outcomes, not tasks.
You wait to be told what to do next. We need people who see what's needed and do it.
You're looking for a 9-5 with predictable hours. We care about deep work and deep rest (we have a minimum leave policy), but when a hospital go-live is on the line, we show up - even if that means a 60+ hour week.
You've only worked on platform teams at large companies. We need someone who's built infra from scratch.
You see collaboration as interruption. We see it as leverage. The best engineers here are constantly pulling each other in. If you prefer to work in isolation, this isn't the right fit.
Interview process
Intro call - Get to know each other
Technical - 1-2 interviews
Onsite - Coding, case study, team meet (~4-5 hours)
Decision - Same week as onsite
We respect your time. If there's a fit, you'll know fast.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary: $200,000 - $275,000 base
Equity: Meaningful ownership in an early-stage company
Healthcare: 100% of premiums covered
PTO: Unlimited, with a recommended minimum of 20 days
401(k): 4% match
Equipment: Laptop + budget for your home office
Location
San Francisco - in person.
If you're passionate about applying frontier AI to real-world impact, join us in building healthcare's future.