Founding Full Stack AI Engineer

INDUSTRY: Stealth AI / Healthcare Technology

LOCATION: Remote Across Canada

SALARY: Competitive Base + Meaningful Early-Stage Equity

About You:

- You’re a strong full stack engineer who has shipped AI-powered products into production and wants true ownership in a 0→1 environment.
- You’re comfortable building across the stack - from product interfaces and backend services to LLM integrations and agentic workflows.
- You want to work closely with an experienced AI Lead while having the autonomy and impact of a founding engineer.

About Our Client:

- Our client is a stealth AI health tech company building next-generation technology for clinical mental health therapy and patient support.
- They are building highly responsible AI products for high-trust, sensitive environments where reliability, safety, and user experience matter.
- This is an opportunity to join at the founding engineering stage and directly influence the product, architecture, and engineering culture.

Responsibilities:

- Build and ship AI-native product experiences from 0→1.
- Own features end-to-end across frontend, backend, APIs, infrastructure, and AI integrations.
- Work closely with the AI Lead to develop agentic and multi-step AI workflows.
- Integrate LLMs, RAG pipelines, AI agents, and orchestration systems into production applications.
- Build intuitive product experiences around complex AI capabilities.




- Develop scalable backend services and APIs primarily in Python.
- Build systems with strong observability, reliability, security, and handling of sensitive user data.
- Move quickly from prototype to production while maintaining high engineering standards.
- Help establish the technical foundations and engineering practices of an early-stage company.

Qualifications:

- Robust full stack engineering experience building and shipping production applications.
- Experience building production LLM-powered products, including agentic or multi-step AI workflows.
- Experience building healthcare technology that handles PHI within HIPAA-regulated environments.
- Strong understanding of secure architecture, data privacy, access controls, and auditability for sensitive patient data.
- Robust backend engineering experience with Python and APIs, alongside modern frontend development.
- Experience with LLM APIs, RAG systems, and AI orchestration frameworks.
- Experience building reliable, scalable, and observable production systems.
- Ability to operate with significant ownership and move quickly in a 0→1 startup environment.

Compensation Range:

- Up to 220k base
- Meaningful early-stage equity.
- Fully remote across Canada.
- Founding-level ownership with the opportunity to help shape the product and engineering organization.

📌 Founding Engineer (Remote) (Canada)
🏢 SearchLabs
📍 Canada