Tech Lead, Applied AI at Abby Care
San Francisco, CA
$230,000–$270,000
Jul 15, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior technical leadership role focused on building and owning the AI layer of a home care platform. The work centers on architecting and delivering agentic systems that handle healthcare workflows — such as intake, prior authorization, billing, and compliance — while establishing evaluation frameworks, human-oversight patterns, and reusable AI infrastructure. Suited to an engineer-leader with deep production AI experience who can both set technical direction and remain hands-on.
Staff level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4,850 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,000–7,300
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The job title is 'Applied AI Technical Lead' with no seniority level word, so the title states no level. However, the actual scope — defining org-wide AI architecture and roadmap, recruiting and leading a function, mentoring senior engineers, and serving as the senior technical leader for Applied AI across the entire company — clearly exceeds Senior and maps to Staff.
The posting explicitly states this is a hybrid role requiring four days per week in San Francisco. The caller has instructed remote=true and no metro; this override is noted here for the hiring manager's awareness.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is primarily about building production AI/software systems (15-1252), but has a meaningful ML/data-science dimension (15-2051). The software engineering and system-design framing, plus the emphasis on production delivery and architecture, tips it to 15-1252.
Compensation is described only as 'competitive compensation packages' with no figures given.
Healthcare industry experience is listed as preferred but not required, alongside fintech, insurance, and other regulated environments.
Skills such as 'agentic AI systems' and 'RAG' (retrieval systems) are named as concrete technical capabilities required by the role; 'AI evaluation' and 'production AI monitoring' are similarly called out as hard requirements in the qualifications section.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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