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Get Access To All JobsWho we are: Founded in 2016, K Health's mission is to deliver accessible, high-quality healthcare at scale. As a leading clinical AI company in primary care, K Health has developed a suite of clinical AI agents that enhance provider efficiency and improve patient outcomes. K Health's virtual primary care platform is enhanced by an AI copilot to complete the initial patient intake, summarizing relevant history from the EMR, and generating “the perfect note” to reduce the time providers spend on basic data collection and non-clinical tasks. Unlike other virtual medicine companies, K Health delivers comprehensive, longitudinal primary care in a virtual setting, enabling our clinicians to be true primary care providers without sacrificing scope of practice or continuity of care. As a venture-backed startup trusted with nearly $400 million in funding and a $900 million valuation as of July 2024, K Health is well-positioned for sustained future growth. We are expanding our partnerships with major health systems (Cedars-Sinai, Hackensack Meridian Health, Hartford HealthCare), enhancing accessibility and quality of care by pairing people with technology. Our providers are credentialed at these renowned academic health systems and adhere to their clinical guidelines, ensuring patient-first, evidence-based care. Fully integrated into Epic, our AI platform enables K Health to operate as an extension of existing healthcare systems, benefiting from a built-in network of specialists and social services to seamlessly serve patients within those communities. Our unique care delivery model enables our providers to deliver the same high-quality, accessible care to a mixed-payer population, including those with commercial insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid. Join us in our mission to deliver smarter, simpler healthcare of the future - today!
About the role We are seeking an engineering leader who will drive K's AI-driven core Provider and Ops platform into the future of Primary Care. This critical role sits at the intersection of deep integrations and cutting-edge Generative AI, focusing on creating intelligent automation that radically simplifies complex workflows. You will own the technical strategy, development, and execution of a mission-critical product portfolio, designing transformative AI co-pilots and ambient automation solutions that fundamentally improve provider efficiency and ultimately elevate patient care, all while enabling deep integrations with foundational EMR systems like Epic.
This role requires in-office presence in our New York office four days per week.
What you will do
- Provide decisive technical and organizational leadership, guiding the team through the strategic development and delivery of the entire provider and ops product portfolio.
- Drive the engineering roadmap for advanced AI co-pilot features and provider-facing productivity tools that integrate seamlessly into daily practice.
- Oversee the creation and successful embedding of ambient AI capabilities and deep automations within core Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems, specifically Epic.
- Lead the development of agentic voice and text based AI systems designed to autonomously execute complex operational and administrative workflows, leveraging technologies such as Google ADT, LangFuse, LangGraph, and LangChain, and orchestrating a hybrid model stack that includes OpenAI and Google Gemini alongside self-hosted and fine-tuned smaller LLMs like Gemma and Llama.
- Ensure robust, compliant, and deep integration strategies with EMR platforms (e.g., Epic) to deliver seamless and reliable experiences for both providers and patients. This includes a combination of HL7, Smart on FHIR, Open FHIR APIs and proprietary Epic APIs where relevant.
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, focusing on highly scalable architecture, security, and velocity to deliver transformative results.
What we're looking for
- 3+ years of experience in Engineering Leadership, successfully leading and scaling high-performing teams.
- 7+ years of experience in hands-on Software Engineering roles, preferably with experience building complex, distributed systems.
- Strong architectural, design, and security acumen, ideally within the highly regulated landscape of healthcare or a healthcare-adjacent field.
- Proven ability to evaluate and synthesize multiple architectural approaches to stitch together integrated solutions that are performant, compliant, scalable, and highly reliable.
- Deep experience building, evolving, and operating distributed microservices architectures in TypeScript and Kotlin, including API design, service orchestration, and production-grade observability and resilience.
- Exceptional ability to lead complex discussions across diverse technical and non-technical, internal and external audiences to achieve common goals.
- Demonstrated expertise in communicating highly complex ideas and influencing stakeholders to achieve optimal business and technical outcomes.
Benefits & Perks:
- Hybrid work schedule with weekly lunches and stocked fridges
- Monthly social committees for company events
- 18 vacation days, 9 company holidays, 5 sick days, and 2 personal days
- Stock options for every full-time employee
- Paid parental leave
- 401k benefit
- Commuter Benefits
- Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance options
Compensation: $215,000 USD - $275,000 USD
We offer competitive compensation packages based on industry benchmarks for function, level, and geographic location. Offer amounts are determined by multiple factors such as a candidate's experience and expertise.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider applicants for employment regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, citizenship, military or veteran status, or any other class protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.
We’re deeply committed to building teams as diverse as the patients we serve and strive to cultivate an environment where everyone can bring their most authentic self to work. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our users.
We are committed to maintaining the integrity of our hiring process and ensuring a safe environment for all candidates. All communication for job offers from K Health will come from email addresses ending in @khealth.com. K Health will never ask you to provide financial information about yourself during the recruitment process. We will never use personal email accounts or other domains for official correspondence. Our official job postings are only listed on our official website and reputable job boards. Be cautious of job offers from sources other than these platforms.
Who we are: Founded in 2016, K Health's mission is to deliver accessible, high-quality healthcare at scale. As a leading clinical AI company in primary care, K Health has developed a suite of clinical AI agents that enhance provider efficiency and improve patient outcomes. K Health's virtual primary care platform is enhanced by an AI copilot to complete the initial patient intake, summarizing relevant history from the EMR, and generating “the perfect note” to reduce the time providers spend on basic data collection and non-clinical tasks. Unlike other virtual medicine companies, K Health delivers comprehensive, longitudinal primary care in a virtual setting, enabling our clinicians to be true primary care providers without sacrificing scope of practice or continuity of care. As a venture-backed startup trusted with nearly $400 million in funding and a $900 million valuation as of July 2024, K Health is well-positioned for sustained future growth. We are expanding our partnerships with major health systems (Cedars-Sinai, Hackensack Meridian Health, Hartford HealthCare), enhancing accessibility and quality of care by pairing people with technology. Our providers are credentialed at these renowned academic health systems and adhere to their clinical guidelines, ensuring patient-first, evidence-based care. Fully integrated into Epic, our AI platform enables K Health to operate as an extension of existing healthcare systems, benefiting from a built-in network of specialists and social services to seamlessly serve patients within those communities. Our unique care delivery model enables our providers to deliver the same high-quality, accessible care to a mixed-payer population, including those with commercial insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid. Join us in our mission to deliver smarter, simpler healthcare of the future - today!
About the role We are seeking an engineering leader who will drive K's AI-driven core Provider and Ops platform into the future of Primary Care. This critical role sits at the intersection of deep integrations and cutting-edge Generative AI, focusing on creating intelligent automation that radically simplifies complex workflows. You will own the technical strategy, development, and execution of a mission-critical product portfolio, designing transformative AI co-pilots and ambient automation solutions that fundamentally improve provider efficiency and ultimately elevate patient care, all while enabling deep integrations with foundational EMR systems like Epic.
This role requires in-office presence in our New York office four days per week.
What you will do
- Provide decisive technical and organizational leadership, guiding the team through the strategic development and delivery of the entire provider and ops product portfolio.
- Drive the engineering roadmap for advanced AI co-pilot features and provider-facing productivity tools that integrate seamlessly into daily practice.
- Oversee the creation and successful embedding of ambient AI capabilities and deep automations within core Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems, specifically Epic.
- Lead the development of agentic voice and text based AI systems designed to autonomously execute complex operational and administrative workflows, leveraging technologies such as Google ADT, LangFuse, LangGraph, and LangChain, and orchestrating a hybrid model stack that includes OpenAI and Google Gemini alongside self-hosted and fine-tuned smaller LLMs like Gemma and Llama.
- Ensure robust, compliant, and deep integration strategies with EMR platforms (e.g., Epic) to deliver seamless and reliable experiences for both providers and patients. This includes a combination of HL7, Smart on FHIR, Open FHIR APIs and proprietary Epic APIs where relevant.
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, focusing on highly scalable architecture, security, and velocity to deliver transformative results.
What we're looking for
- 3+ years of experience in Engineering Leadership, successfully leading and scaling high-performing teams.
- 7+ years of experience in hands-on Software Engineering roles, preferably with experience building complex, distributed systems.
- Strong architectural, design, and security acumen, ideally within the highly regulated landscape of healthcare or a healthcare-adjacent field.
- Proven ability to evaluate and synthesize multiple architectural approaches to stitch together integrated solutions that are performant, compliant, scalable, and highly reliable.
- Deep experience building, evolving, and operating distributed microservices architectures in TypeScript and Kotlin, including API design, service orchestration, and production-grade observability and resilience.
- Exceptional ability to lead complex discussions across diverse technical and non-technical, internal and external audiences to achieve common goals.
- Demonstrated expertise in communicating highly complex ideas and influencing stakeholders to achieve optimal business and technical outcomes.
Benefits & Perks:
- Hybrid work schedule with weekly lunches and stocked fridges
- Monthly social committees for company events
- 18 vacation days, 9 company holidays, 5 sick days, and 2 personal days
- Stock options for every full-time employee
- Paid parental leave
- 401k benefit
- Commuter Benefits
- Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance options
Compensation: $215,000 USD - $275,000 USD
We offer competitive compensation packages based on industry benchmarks for function, level, and geographic location. Offer amounts are determined by multiple factors such as a candidate's experience and expertise.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider applicants for employment regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, citizenship, military or veteran status, or any other class protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.
We’re deeply committed to building teams as diverse as the patients we serve and strive to cultivate an environment where everyone can bring their most authentic self to work. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our users.
We are committed to maintaining the integrity of our hiring process and ensuring a safe environment for all candidates. All communication for job offers from K Health will come from email addresses ending in @khealth.com. K Health will never ask you to provide financial information about yourself during the recruitment process. We will never use personal email accounts or other domains for official correspondence. Our official job postings are only listed on our official website and reputable job boards. Be cautious of job offers from sources other than these platforms.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding J-1 Visa Sponsorship as a Staff Engineer
Align your credentials to specialty occupation standards
J-1 Trainee and Research Scholar categories require documented field-specific expertise. Gather transcripts, project portfolios, and employer letters that connect your engineering background directly to the Staff Engineer role you're pursuing.
Target host employers with existing sponsor relationships
Some U.S. employers have already worked with designated sponsors like CIEE or Cultural Vistas on prior placements. Search Migrate Mate to surface Staff Engineer roles at organizations with J-1 hosting experience before cold-applying elsewhere.
Distinguish Trainee from Research Scholar before applying
Trainee status suits engineers within five years of graduation or with relevant work experience. Research Scholar fits senior Staff Engineers embedded in academic or institutional research settings. Applying under the wrong category delays your DS-2019 issuance.
Confirm your host employer will complete the training plan
The J-1 Trainee program requires a signed Form DS-7002 training plan detailing your objectives, supervisors, and evaluation schedule. Verify your prospective host employer understands this obligation before accepting an offer.
Check the two-year home residency requirement early
Staff Engineers sponsored through certain government-funded or skills-shortage programs may be subject to the two-year home residency requirement under INA 212(e). USCIS and the State Department both review this at the DS-2019 stage, so assess your eligibility before committing to a host.
Benchmark your offered compensation against DOL wage data
Your host employer must pay J-1 exchange visitors comparably to U.S. workers in the same role and location. Cross-reference your offer against the OFLC Wage Search and Bureau of Labor Statistics data for Staff Engineer positions in your target metro area.
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Find Staff Engineer JobsStaff Engineer J-1 Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Which J-1 program category fits a Staff Engineer role?
Most Staff Engineers enter on the Trainee category if they're within five years of graduation or relevant work experience, or the Research Scholar category if the role is based at a university, national lab, or research institution. The Specialist category applies in narrower cases where the engineer brings a highly specific, internationally recognized skill set to the host organization.
Who actually sponsors the J-1 visa for a Staff Engineer position?
The visa sponsor is a U.S. Department of State-designated organization, such as CIEE, Cultural Vistas, or IIE, not the hiring company. The company is the host employer. The designated sponsor issues your DS-2019, monitors compliance, and signs the training plan. Your employment contract is with the host, but your visa status is managed through the sponsor.
How do I find Staff Engineer roles where the host employer is open to J-1 placement?
Most general job boards don't filter for J-1 host experience, which means you'll spend time on employers who've never worked with a designated sponsor before. Migrate Mate lets you search specifically for U.S. engineering roles aligned with J-1 sponsorship pathways, narrowing your target list before you invest time in outreach or interviews.
Does the two-year home residency requirement apply to Staff Engineers on J-1?
It can. If your J-1 is funded by your home government, if your home country lists Staff Engineer as a skills-shortage occupation, or if you received U.S. government funding through your exchange program, you may be subject to the two-year home residency requirement under INA 212(e). Confirm your status with your designated sponsor before signing an offer, since this requirement affects future H-1B or green card eligibility.
What does the Form DS-7002 training plan require for a Staff Engineer?
The DS-7002 must detail your specific learning objectives, the engineering competencies you'll develop, your supervisor's name and credentials, and an evaluation schedule. For Staff Engineer roles, the plan typically covers systems architecture, technical leadership, and cross-functional project work. Your host employer completes and signs the form, and your designated sponsor reviews it for compliance before issuing the DS-2019.
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