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Sully.ai Inc.

Senior Software Engineer, Research (Contract to Hire)

Sully.ai Inc., San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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About Us At Sully.ai,

We’re Building the Most Impactful Healthcare Company on Earth

We believe that access to a great doctor is a basic human right. Today, that’s not a reality. Delays, misdiagnoses, administrative chaos, and burnout plague the system.

Our Mission:

One Human, One Doctor

Our Traction

450+ organizations signed 16 months

AI agents cut admin by ~2.8 hours daily and reduce onboarding 85%

5M+ Clinical Tasks completed to date, serving 36+ specialties

Raised $25M from YC, Eric Yuan, Amity, Semper Virens

Patented AI architecture (MedCon-1)

outperforms GPT-4.5, Gemini, Claude

on clinical reasoning tasks

Sully requires A-players capable of 4 months = 1 year output.

This role is structured as a Contract-to-Hire position with a 60-day trial period. Sully.ai maintains an exceptionally high performance bar, and this structure ensures mutual alignment before transitioning to full-time

What You’ll Do

Build and optimize core research infrastructure: evaluation pipelines, agent workflows, hallucination detectors, coding benchmarks, and research→production integrations.

Design, implement, and scale agentic systems across backend, frontend, and model integrations, collaborating closely with research and co-founders.

Own reliability, observability, and performance across agents (logging, tracing, instrumentation, safety checks).

Ship research-proven features into production within 7 days, end-to-end.

Develop shared tools, SDKs, and internal products that accelerate iteration across Research, QA, and Engineering.

What You Must Bring

Senior-level full-stack engineering experience in

React, TypeScript, and Node.js .

Proven ability to design, ship, and scale

LLM-powered applications .

Expertise in

API design, streaming, and CI/CD pipelines .

Strong cloud infrastructure background ( AWS, GCP, or Azure ).

Track record of building

reliable systems

with measurable performance and error budgets.

First-Month Focus

Audit all cross-agent flows for UI/UX consistency, correctness, and performance gaps.

Implement shared components, typed schemas, and contract-driven interfaces for reliability.

Establish instrumentation for frontend performance, agent consistency, latency, and model round-trip tracing.

Improve or replace brittle evaluation or agent pipelines identified during onboarding.

Partner with Research to productionize at least one new capability.

90 Day OKRs

Deliver production-grade agentic workflows with

Launch a cross-agent

design system + SDK

adopted by at least 2 internal teams.

Establish a weekly

deploy + measure

cadence with performance dashboards, latency budgets, and error budgets.

Reduce agent latency and failure rates across at least two high-volume workflows.

Ship multiple research-to-production integrations with measurable CSAT or accuracy gains.

Who Thrives Here

Entrepreneurial to your core : You think in outcomes, thrive in chaos, and take ownership without limits

Mission-obsessed : You’re here to save lives, not just ship features — patients and doctors are your why.

Impact-driven & fast-moving : You sprint toward hard problems and ship with sharp judgment.

Elite teammate : You raise the bar through high standards, direct feedback, and craft excellence.

Why Join Sully.ai? Revolutionizing the antiquated $800B+ Healthcare market

50%+ of us are ex-founders. We hire A-players, not passengers

⚡️ Speed matters - we operate with urgency, autonomy, and ownership

You’ll work on real, first-of-their-kind problems at the edge of AI and medicine

❤️ Your work helps doctors reclaim their time - and patients get better, faster care

Sully.ai is an equal opportunity employer. In addition to EEO being the law, it is a policy that is fully consistent with our principles. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to status as a protected veteran or a qualified individual with a disability, or other protected status such as race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, pregnancy or age. Sully.ai prohibits any form of workplace harassment.

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