Founding Applied AI Lead

This job post is for our Toronto location. For our NYC location job post, go here https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Pear-VC/489d22ab-558f-4702-975b-e44c4d413205. We are flexible on the precise job title. It could include "forward deployed," "engineer," "technical writer," "implementation lead," etc. For example, if you're a technical writer and want to keep that job title, we can accommodate that. Paxos Health https://www.paxoshealth.com is a Seed-stage healthcare AI startup that has raised >$6M in venture capital funding, with AI agents already operating in production with customers. Our founding team comes from Stanford, Meta, Microsoft, Medtronic, Columbia, University of Waterloo, and has founded previous startups and healthcare nonprofits. We are building the AI-native operating system for getting patients access to the medical technologies their doctors prescribe. Too often, even when a physician decides a patient needs a healthcare product (cancer tests, genetic diagnostics, prosthetics, heart valves, neurostimulation devices, home medical equipment, etc.), health insurance companies deny coverage, and breakthrough technologies struggle to reach the people they were built to help. We help healthcare manufacturers fight for coverage patient-by-patient. Before LLMs, this work was too difficult to use AI technology for, and human teams were forced to cut corners to get through all of the patient cases. But now, AI can help manufacturers meet increasingly complex insurer requirements and get more patients access to care. Our progress so far: - Five medtech and lab diagnostics companies as customers, with 40+ companies in pipeline. $182K in recognized revenue, with line of sight to $1M ARR by late summer - Raised >$6M across two VC rounds, including our recently closed Seed - Won the Stanford Impact Founder and IDIF fellowships. Check out the Stanford article about us https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/experience/news-history/haley-king-mba-24-addressing-gaps-us-health-insurance-coverage and Haley’s LOWkeynotes talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28azd1OqC9Y&ab_channel=StanfordGraduateSchoolofBusiness So far, we've deployed LLMs for written documentation workflows and voice AI, and we want to expand those and build out computer-use agents as well. ABOUT THE ROLE Paxos Health https://www.paxoshealth.com/ is looking for a hands-on Founding Applied AI Lead. You'll work directly with the founders and help define the applied AI function at a seed-stage company before the playbook exists. (Note that the job title itself is flexible based on candidate preferences.) The challenge is turning probabilistic LLM behavior into reliable, auditable workflows that customers trust in production. We've succeeded with the customers we've had so far, and we want to scale our AI to many more. This role is deeply hands-on, but the core output is not production backend code. It is the written and structured system design layer around our AI: precise agent instructions, workflow specs, output schemas, implementation playbooks, and decisions about how messy customer processes should be translated into reliable product behavior. As an early employee, there is a significant opportunity to grow the scope of your role. For example, you could become more product-adjacent, or more engineering-adjacent, depending on your interests. (See the AI-generated diagram directly below.) [https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/cca476c0-947e-4006-a2cb-409350de667a/3987065b-ed92-4846-943d-1944ff951fa2/05ab7a08-10d8-4d6b-b510-b87de7d9ba21.png] We are open to many backgrounds for this role, not just software engineering. For example, a strong senior technical writer can be a great fit for this role. Much of the work is about precise instructions, structured outputs, reusable specs, and customer-facing implementation logic. If you have owned complex documentation systems, API or developer docs, information architecture, docs-as-code workflows, or cross-functional technical co