Principal Applied AI Engineer
Redesign Health · New York, NY
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Jul 22, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on designing and shipping agentic AI systems that support a healthcare venture firm's core workflows — sourcing and evaluating investments, talent, and partnerships. The work involves building long-horizon, stateful agents with custom tooling, context engineering, and self-improving feedback loops, rather than conventional software. Suited to a deeply experienced applied AI engineer with a founder or startup background who has already rebuilt their own development practice around AI-native tools.
Senior level · 10+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 270 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 140–420
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.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499).
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 (8)
The role is titled 'Principal Applied AI Engineer' but the requirements — 10+ years in a senior technical role, end-to-end ownership of agentic systems, and potential people management — are consistent with a Senior individual contributor rather than a true org-wide Principal. The title is taken at face value for advertised seniority; actual scope supports Senior.
Python and TypeScript are presented as interchangeable ('Python and/or TypeScript'), so they are captured as a single required skill with TypeScript as the alternative.
Agent frameworks are required but the JD names several interchangeable options ('Lang* / Deep Agents, the Anthropic Agent SDK, or similar'). LangChain is used as the primary name with Anthropic Agent SDK as the alternative; 'or similar' signals the specific tool is flexible.
MCP servers, custom agentic tooling, durable/sandboxed execution, observability, and self-learning loops are all described as hard requirements under the 'What You'll Need' section and are captured accordingly.
Claude Code is listed as a bonus/illustrative example ('coding agents like Claude Code') rather than a hard gate, so it is marked preferred.
Machine learning background, knowledge graphs, and semantic search are explicitly flagged as 'Bonus points' and are therefore preferred.
The posting lists three possible office locations (New York, San Francisco, Bengaluru). New York is used as the primary CBSA since the company is headquartered there; the role is hybrid, not fully remote.
Compensation is described qualitatively ('world-class… mix of cash and fund equity') with no figures given; no comp range is extracted.
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