Sr. Staff AI Engineer (Remote)

We believe that mental health is just as important as physical health. We recognize that mental health issues can be complex and multifaceted and we are dedicated to treating the whole person not just the symptoms.

We aim to create a world where mental health is no longer stigmatized or marginalized but rather is embraced as an integral part of one's overall well-being. 

We believe that by providing quality care that is both evidence-based and compassionate we can empower individuals to take charge of their mental health and achieve their full potential. We are passionate about making a positive impact on the lives of those struggling with mental health issues and we strive to be a force for positive change in the field of mental healthcare.

Rula is a remote-first company. We currently hire in most U.S. states with the exception of Hawaii.

About the Role

At Rula this role owns the AI foundation that determines how and how well AI shows up across mental healthcare. The focus isn’t on prototypes or isolated features but on building durable production-grade generative AI systems that directly power patient engagement provider workflows and clinical operations at scale.

You’ll operate where architecture applied research and real-world constraints meet. The work includes designing core AI platforms setting technical standards for safety reliability and performance and making principald decisions about how advanced AI is introduced into a regulated high-stakes care environment. The goal is simple but hard: make AI genuinely useful in clinical contexts without compromising trust or outcomes.

This is a deeply hands-on role with real technical ownership. You’ll define system architecture unblock complex engineering problems and act as a technical multiplier for other engineers working across product surfaces. Success here means creating foundations that others can build on confidently and that hold up under scale scrutiny and real patient impact.

The opportunity is less about chasing the frontier for its own sake and more about shaping how AI responsibly becomes part of everyday mental healthcare setting direction not just for what we build next but for how AI evolves inside the care ecosystem over time.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering including 7+ years of experience with Public Cloud (AWS GCP etc.) 5+ years designing and scaling distributed systems.

• 5+ years of deep experience in Python and at least one backend language (preferably JavaScript TypeScript Java or Go)

• 2+ years of proven track record building AI-powered products at scale including hands-on experience with foundation models (OpenAI Anthropic Bedrock Gemini etc.).

• 2+ years of strong experience in LLM integration patterns (RAG function calling agents memory routing etc.) or AI orchestration frameworks (eg. LangChain LlamaIndex DSPy Haystack) or vector databases (eg. Pinecone Weaviate FAISS Milvus).

• 3+ years in working with MLOps data pipelines evaluation and observability systems for continuous model improvement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting secure and compliant AI solutions in regulated environments (HIPAA GDPR etc.).

• Familiarity with human-in-the-loop systems and clinical decision support frameworks.

• Experience designing evaluation pipelines for human alignment factual accuracy or model interpretability.

• Contributions to open-source AI frameworks or applied research in NLP healthcare AI or GenAI safety.

• Experience contributing to early-stage team growth (0 → 1)

• Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams in AI ML platform or applied research domains.

We're serious about your well-being! As part of our team full-time employees receive:

• 100% remote work environment: Working hours to support a healthy work-life balance ensuring you can meet both professional and personal commitments (must be based in United States currently not hiring in Hawaii)

• Attractive pay and benefits: Full transparency of pay ranges regardless of where you live in the United States

• Comprehensive health benefits: Medical dental vision life disability and FSA/HSA

• 401(k) plan access: Start saving for your future

• Generous time-off policies: Including 2 company-wide shutdown weeks each year for self-care (for most employees)

• Paid parental leave: Available for all parents including birthing non-birthing adopting and fostering

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Support for your mental and physical health

• New hire home office stipend: Set up your workspace for success

• Quarterly department stipend: Fun team-building activities or in-person gatherings

• Wellness events and lunch & learns: Explore a variety of engaging topics

• Community and employee resource groups: Participate in groups that celebrate employee identity and lived experiences fostering a sense of community and belonging for all

Our team

We believe that diversity equity and inclusion are fundamental to our mission of making mental healthcare work for everyone.  We are dedicated to having a culture of inclusion that will support our employees in feeling safe seen heard and valued.

What We Do

We believe that when access to quality mental healthcare improves patients providers and payers all benefit. And that’s why we’re on a mission to make mental healthcare work for everyone. We remove barriers and strengthen connection points between patients providers and payers to improve mental health outcomes. With Rula it’s easy for patients to find a high-quality therapist or psychiatric practitioner who meets their unique needs accepts insurance and is taking new patients. For providers Rula offers the flexibility of private practice while also filling caseloads and offering the necessary behind-the-scenes support. Rula handles the marketing credentialing billing and admin tasks so providers can focus on what they do best: providing care to those in need. Rula is a remote-first company with teams who specialize in the areas of Clinical Partnerships Operations Marketing Engineering Product and more. We’re committed to reimagining how mental health is treated.

Why Work With Us

As a remote company we're intentional about the culture we're building. We write things down we communicate clearly we follow-up and we follow-through. We have high expectations for our team and empower individuals with a high degree of trust and autonomy. In turn we expect that individuals operate with a sense of ownership in everything.

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