AI Engineer

About this role

PicnicHealth is simplifying clinical research with AI, making it faster and cheaper to get new treatments to patients. We’re bringing a patient-centered, AI-first approach to a $100b market otherwise dominated by old-school, services-driven incumbents. We’re creating a streamlined operating system for clinical research, built on top of our AI for medical record data in trials and a personal health assistant that keeps patients engaged.


The Opportunity
Clinical research is ripe for reinvention. Running a study today involves countless labor-intensive workflows—work that's slow, expensive, and often frustrating for everyone involved. We believe AI can change that.


Our AI team builds real systems with critical business impact. We process millions of pages of medical records, turning messy real-world data into structured patient timelines. We automate complex study workflows—from protocol setup to ongoing operations. The goal isn't incremental efficiency—it's drastically reducing the human labor required to run a study.


This is a high-leverage role. You'll work closely with product managers and our study delivery team to identify high-impact opportunities—and own the AI solutions that address them. If you're excited about applying the latest AI capabilities to problems that genuinely matter, this is the place to do it.


As an AI Engineer you will:

• Build AI agents that automate labor-intensive clinical study workflows—like drafting clinical trial documentation
• Extend and improve our agent framework (built on pydantic-ai) and the infrastructure that supports it
• Build data pipelines that give our agents access to the research and context they need
• Collaborate directly with study project managers, clinicians, and other stakeholders to understand problems and deliver solutions
• Do whatever it takes to ship—including scrappy UI work when that's what's blocking progress

What you’ll bring:

• 5+ years of experience writing productio...