Senior AI Engineer
Heidi
Brisbane
16 Mar 2026
Senior AI Engineer
Senior AI Engineer role at Heidi, a healthtech startup building an AI Care Partner. Responsibilities include architecting backend services for LLM-based agents, designing APIs, optimizing performance, and ensuring reliability. Requires mastery of Python, deep database expertise, cloud fluency, and a track record of shipping systems at scale.
Hybrid
Full-time
Senior
Python
Software-engineering Fundamentals
Salary
Not specified
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Pythonsoftware-engineering fundamentalsdatabase expertiserelational storesNoSQL storescloud fluencycontainersCI/CDinfrastructure-as-codesecurity
Soft Skills
rigorous testingcode-reviewdocumentationhonest feedbacksteady supportshared growth
Tools (Must-have)
GCPAWS
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
AI/LLM servicesreal-time audio/streaming pipelines
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and build backend services that power LLM-based agents and clinical automations.
- Design robust APIs & data models that are secure, observable and easy for other teams to extend.
- Optimise performance and cost—profile hot paths, tune databases and right-size cloud resources.
- Automate quality: write unit / integration tests, craft alerts and own on-call runbooks so clinicians can trust every interaction.
- Partner with product, design and other engineers to ship new capabilities from concept to production in weeks, not quarters.
Senior AI EngineerSoftware DevelopmentEngineering and Information TechnologyHealthtechPythonCloudAILLMBackendRemote