Agent Deployment Engineering Residency

Build the Future of AI in Healthcare

The Deployment Engineering (DE) Residency is a selective, high-impact training program for early-career engineers who want to work at the cutting edge of AI deployment in healthcare. Over 3+ months, residents rotate across Hippocratic AI’s most innovative teams, learn how to operate large-scale agentic systems, and directly contribute to projects shaping the future of healthcare.

The residency is an opportunity to learn, build, and grow alongside world class engineers, product leaders, and researchers. Our residents gain deep exposure to real-world AI deployments and have the opportunity to convert into full-time roles at one of the fastest-growing healthcare companies in history.

Why Join the Residency
  • Competitive compensation: Residents can earn $55/hr.
  • Work on real world deployments: Collaborate with teams building agentic systems that are transforming patient care.
  • Learn across disciplines: Gain hands-on experience with Product, Engineering, Model, and Agent Architecture teams.
  • Be mentored by experts: Learn directly from leaders who have shipped enterprise grade AI systems.
  • Accelerate your career: The top-performing residents are invited to join Hippocratic AI full-time.
  • Shape healthcare’s AI future: Be part of a mission driven company building safe, intelligent voice agents for healthcare.
Who We’re Looking For
We’re looking for ambitious, technically sharp, and curious engineers who want to build meaningful AI systems that make a difference.

Qualifications

  • Recently graduated or are early in your engineering career.
  • Have a strong record of academic or technical excellence.
  • Are eager to deepen your expertise and knowledge of language models and agentic systems.
  • Thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments.
  • Are passionate about applying AI to improve healthcare.
  • You have solid programming/prompt engineering skills and love solving hard problems.
Program Details

If you’re driven by impact, excited about cutting edge AI, and ready to grow faster than you ever thought possible, we want to meet you.

Overview
  • Duration: 3-month initial period with potential for extension or conversion.
  • Structure: Rotational programs. Residents move through multiple teams, building broad technical and product knowledge.
  • Conversion: Top performers are offered full-time positions after the residency.
Rotations Include
  • Product Immersion: Start with Go-To-Market and deployment teams to understand how our agents operate in real healthcare settings.
  • Technical Deep Dive: Work on hands-on projects in Product, Engineering, Model, and Deployment Architecture.
  • Specialization & Leadership: Deepen your expertise and lead initiatives or mentor new residents.
How to Apply
  1. The Submit your application and tell us why you’re excited about building AI for healthcare.
  2. Complete a short technical assessment and prompt engineering exercise.
  3. Meet our team in interviews focused on collaboration, problem solving, and curiosity.

We review applications on a rolling basis, with new cohorts launching throughout the year.

What Makes This Different

The DE Residency is for exceptional early-career talent — those who could go anywhere, but choose to build with us. It’s for builders, problem-solvers, and optimists who want their work to matter from day one.

Residents are treated as core contributors, with access to the same tools, mentors, and challenges as full-time engineers. You’ll work on real production code, developing and iterating on agents that have tens of thousands of conversations a day.

This is a launchpad into other roles within Hippocratic AI. The Residency program acts as a central hiring pool where residents who excel will have the opportunity for full-time roles across the company in Product, Engineering, Model, or Deployment Architecture.

FAQ

What is the Deployment Engineering (DE) Residency?
The DE Residency is a 3+ month, high impact training program for early career engineers who want to work at the cutting edge of AI in healthcare. Residents rotate across Hippocratic AI’s most innovative teams, learning how to deploy and develop agentic systems that are transforming patient engagement and care.
It’s designed for recent graduates and early career engineers who are ambitious, technically sharp, and passionate about applying AI to real world healthcare problems. If you’re curious, collaborative and eager to learn from world class engineers, LLM researchers and product leaders, you’ll thrive here.
You’ll work on real world AI deployments, contributing directly to projects that shape how voice agents are used in healthcare. Expect exposure across Go To Market, Product, Engineering, Model, and Deployment Architecture, gaining hands-on experience and broad technical understanding.
The residency lasts three months, with the possibility of extension or conversion into a full time role based on performance.
Residents earn $55 per hour for the duration of the program.
Unlike most residencies or internships, the Deployment Engineering Residency treats participants as core contributors; you’ll work on production systems used by real healthcare partners. You’ll have direct mentorship from experts who’ve shipped enterprise grade AI and get exposure to the full lifecycle of AI deployment.

You should have:

  • Strong programming and problem solving skills
  • Interest or experience with language models and agentic systems
  • A track record of academic or technical excellence
  • A collaborative mindset and curiosity about healthcare and AI
The program is onsite, in-person at our office in Palo Alto, California.
  1. Submit your application and share why you’re passionate about building AI for healthcare.
  2. Complete a short technical assessment and prompt engineering exercise.
  3. Participate in interviews focused on collaboration, problem solving, and curiosity.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and new cohorts launch throughout the year.

Because you’ll be building something that truly matters. Hippocratic AI is on a mission to create safe, intelligent voice agents that improve patient care, and as a resident, you’ll play a key role in shaping that future.