Member of Technical Staff, Early Career

About Abridge

Founded in 2018, Abridge is the first AI-native clinician intelligence platform organized around the patient, built for clinicians, and designed to help health systems coordinate the clinical, financial, and evidence-based decisions for every moment of care. Powered by purpose-built AI for healthcare, Abridge connects patients, providers, payers, and life sciences companies. This year, the platform will support more than 100 million patient-clinician conversations across more than 300 of the largest and most complex health systems in the U.S. With deep workflow integration, the Abridge clinician intelligence platform has been validated to support encounters in 28+ languages across specialties and care settings.

Abridge is setting the industry standard for the responsible deployment of Al across health systems with continual and transparent Al evaluation. Clinical decision support references and cites gold-standard sources of evidence, and features like Linked Evidence map AI-generated documentation to source data, helping clinicians quickly trust and verify the output.

Abridge was awarded Best in KLAS for Ambient AI in 2025 and 2026, in addition to other accolades, including TIME Best Inventions of 2024 and 2025, CNBC Disruptor 2025, and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies 2025.

We are a growing team of practicing clinicians, AI scientists, PhDs, creatives, technologists, and engineers working together to transform healthcare. We have offices located in San Francisco, New York, and Pittsburgh.

The Role

We're looking for early-career Software Engineers who are highly driven and passionate about making a real-world impact through AI for healthcare. You'll join a cross-functional team of researchers, clinicians, and engineers to help translate cutting-edge language model capabilities into dependable clinical systems. You'll be building AI-powered features that touch real clinical workflows, shipping production code, and growing fast in an environment where GenAI is at the center of everything we build.

You will be given an unusual amount of responsibility and autonomy. You will be surrounded by people who want to do their best work. You will experience accelerated learning and career growth. You will have a path to become a future leader of the company. The journey will be demanding but rewarding.

What You'll Do

• Contribute to backend and frontend systems across Abridge
• Shift projects, tackling a wide variety of challenges as you grow and upskill at a startup operating at scale
• Collaborate across ML, infrastructure, product, and clinical teams — and develop a genuine understanding of the users and clinicians we serve
• Contribute to evaluation frameworks that measure accuracy, robustness, and clinical reliability — including automated pipelines and human-in-the-loop review
• Think with an agent-first approach. Continuously learn and relearn agentic coding.
• Fine-tune your judgment on where the human in the loop is critical.
• Help prototype with new models, prompting techniques, and open-source orchestration tools (LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.)
• Build and iterate on agentic LLM systems — including retrieval pipelines, structured tool use, and chained LLM workflows — as part of a collaborative engineering team
• Contribute to monitoring and observability systems that keep our LLM workflows healthy in production
• Learn from senior engineers and bring curiosity and fresh perspective to every problem

What You'll Bring

• A degree in CS or a related field, or equivalent experience (projects, bootcamp, open source — we care about what you can build not where you learned it)
• Hands-on GenAI experience — through coursework, personal projects, internships, or hackathons. You've integrated an LLM API, built a RAG pipeline, experimented with agents, or shipped something AI-powered and can speak to what you learned
• Familiarity with LLM orchestration concepts (prompt chaining, tool use, retrieval) even if you haven't yet used them in a production setting
• AI tooling is already part of how you work — you use it to write, debug, and learn faster, and you know when to trust it vs. verify
• Curiosity about model evaluation, failure modes, and what it actually takes to make an LLM system reliable
• Collaborative, low-ego mindset — we move fast, and we need teammates who pitch in wherever needed

How we work
We’re a fast-moving team. New grads join us in the office five days a week in [SF/NYC] because we learn fastest, and ship fastest, when we’re side by side. You’ll own real work early. Within your first weeks expect to build and ship out features. The pace is high, and there are stretches (launches, production issues, tight deadlines) when the team stays late to get it done. We care about the outcome, and we support each other through those stretches.

You’ll thrive here if you:

• Take initiative and don’t wait to be told what’s next
• Stay with a hard problem when you’re stuck
• Care about the outcome, not just finishing the task
• Want to learn quickly and are comfortable with high expectations

Why Work at Abridge?

At Abridge, we’re transforming healthcare delivery experiences with generative AI, enabling clinicians and patients to connect in deeper, more meaningful ways. Our mission is clear: to power deeper understanding in healthcare. We’re driving real, lasting change, with millions of medical conversations processed each month.

Joining Abridge means stepping into a fast-paced, high-growth startup where your contributions truly make a difference. Our culture requires extreme ownership—every employee has the ability to (and is expected to) make an impact on our customers and our business.

Beyond individual impact, you will have the opportunity to work alongside a team of curious, high-achieving people in a supportive environment where success is shared, growth is constant, and feedback fuels progress. At Abridge, it’s not just what we do—it’s how we do it. Every decision is rooted in empathy, always prioritizing the needs of clinicians and patients.

We’re committed to supporting your growth, both professionally and personally. Whether it's flexible work hours, an inclusive culture, or ongoing learning opportunities, we are here to help you thrive and do the best work of your life.

If you are ready to make a meaningful impact alongside passionate people who care deeply about what they do, Abridge is the place for you.

How we take care of Abridgers:

• Generous Time Off: 14 paid holidays, flexible PTO for salaried employees, and accrued time off for hourly employees
• Comprehensive Health Plans: Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for all full-time employees and their families.
• Generous HSA Contribution: If you choose a High Deductible Health Plan, Abridge makes monthly contributions to your HSA.
• Paid Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave for all full-time employees.
• Family Forming Benefits: Resources and financial support to help you build your family.
• 401(k) Matching: Contribution matching to help invest in your future.
• Personal Device Allowance: Tax free funds for personal device usage.
• Pre-tax Benefits: Access to Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Commuter Benefits.
• Lifestyle Wallet: Monthly contributions for fitness, professional development, coworking, and more.
• Mental Health Support: Dedicated access to therapy and coaching to help you reach your goals.
• Sabbatical Leave: Paid Sabbatical Leave after 5 years of employment.
• Compensation and Equity: Competitive compensation and equity grants for full time employees.
• ... and much more!

Equal Opportunity Employer

Abridge is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability.

We're committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the interview process. Once you submit your application, we'll follow up with details on how to request an accommodation for interviewing, completing any assessments, or otherwise participating in the selection process.

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Compensation: $167K - $184K