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UpDoc is building the first clinically validated, physician-supervised AI agent for chronic disease management, founded by Stanford physicians. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Automation to identify and eliminate high-friction processes across engineering, operations, and compliance, replacing them with reliable software solutions and AI-enabled workflows.
You will own high-leverage automation projects end-to-end: identifying friction points, understanding real needs, challenging existing processes, shipping solutions, and iterating based on usage. Key responsibilities include automating regulatory and compliance workflows (compliant releases, evidence collection, traceability, documentation, approvals); improving engineering productivity through faster CI, release tooling, debugging tools, and developer experience enhancements; and building AI-enabled internal workflows for conversation annotation, data labeling, evaluation, structured extraction, review, triage, and agentic processes. You'll integrate internal and external systems, building reliable, maintainable production software with appropriate testing, observability, auditability, and failure handling.
You are an exceptional generalist engineer who notices friction and can't resist eliminating it. You can take messy, poorly specified cross-functional processes and turn them into reliable technical solutions. You move quickly, communicate well across teams, and are excited about using AI to automate workflows that were previously impractical.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in backend, platform, developer productivity, internal tools, or other generalist engineering roles
- Excellent software engineering fundamentals and strong Python skills, with experience building backend services, APIs, databases, and reliable production systems
- Ability to take ambiguous operational or engineering problems, challenge assumptions, and independently turn them into shipped technical solutions
- Strong judgment around system design, testing, reliability, and maintainability, with a track record of moving quickly and taking end-to-end ownership
- Strong written and verbal communication and ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical teams
HIGHLY DESIRED:
- Experience building production AI- or LLM-enabled automation, including structured outputs, tool use, evaluation, monitoring, and safeguards
- Experience building developer productivity, CI/CD, release engineering, or internal tooling
- Experience with regulatory, compliance, quality, security, or other auditable workflows (e.g., FDA-regulated software, SOC 2)
- Experience building internal systems at early-stage or rapidly scaling companies
