Asepha is an AI healthcare startup based in New York, USA and Toronto, Canada; focused on automating manual tasks in community pharmacies to boost efficiency and improve patient care. We create proprietary AI tools, trained on real-world pharmacy data, to streamline medication reviews, prescription intake, and medication reconciliation.
We are seeking 2 talented and innovative senior software engineers to join our growing team. As one of our early hires, you'll play a critical role in shaping our engineering efforts, making key architectural decisions, and writing code to expand our AI product line. You will play a pivotal role in balancing speed of execution with product quality, and have the opportunity to wear multiple hats, from frontend and backend development to devops and customer interactions. Your work will have a direct impact on improving pharmacy workflows and health outcomes.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Training and fine-tuning Large Language Models performing a wide range of tasks in the domain of healthcare.
- Interfacing Large Language Models to external systems, APIs, and tools such as Vector Databases.
- Working on our data processing pipeline to ensure efficient and accurate handling of unstructured medical data.
- Developing methods to improve efficiency, correctness, and quality of LLMs.
- Building tools to measure model quality and performance.
- Experience with existing large language models and generative models is a must.
- Experience developing and training models in PyTorch is ideal.
Qualifications:
- 4+ years experience
- Strong fundamentals in Python and Typescript (we use FastAPI and Node.js)
- Experience with GCP
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with prompt engineering, RAG, or fine-tuning (personal projects count!)
- Proven track record of building high-performance, data-driven APIs.
- Experience with event-driven architecture.
- A great communicator and team player.
- Located in either New York, USA or Toronto, Canada.
Perks:
- Competitive compensation package, including $150-200k annual salary + stock options
- Unlimited days off to maintain a healthy work-life balance
- Complimentary breakfast provided daily in the office and weekly team lunches
- Work laptop provided (Macbook)
- Exciting opportunities for professional growth and career development
Note: Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.