Founding Engineer (Python)

Neru Health uses AI to tackle one of chronic care’s toughest challenges: helping patients start and stick with treatment, beginning with sleep care. Our conversational AI platform is already live with 3,000+ patients, improving patient outcomes and reducing clinic workload by 45%. We recently closed our oversubscribed seed round, backed by senior tech leaders from Netflix and Google, leading sleep experts, and digital health VCs. Clinics are onboarding quickly, and we’re hiring founding engineers to help scale from 3,000 to 30,000 patients in the months ahead.

• Design and deploy end-to-end workflows using LLMs, APIs, and automation tools
• Customize patient support flows based on clinical and technical requirements
• Identify manual processes (clinical and sub-clinical) and turn them into scalable systems
• Evaluate platform behavior with LLM evals and patient feedback loops
• Collaborate with product and clinical teams to deliver measurable outcomes like improved patient adherence, lower support load, and streamlined clinic ops

Tech stack: Python, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, GCP, Leaping AI, Terraform, React

Your background looks something like:

• Background in engineering at product-driven, early-stage tech companies
• Proficiency in Python, relational databases (PostgreSQL), FastAPI
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP
• Experience building end-to-end AI-driven systems using APIs and automation tools

As a person, you’re:

• A tinkerer/hacker - you explore, test, and iterate rapidly
• Comfortable switching between coding, scripting, and AI tools to get things done efficiently
• Automate everything - from dev environments to personal workflows
• Communicate clearly and thrive in a fast-paced, hybrid/remote startup team
• Value working with people who are kind, ambitious, and pragmatic
• Excited about AI/ML, even if your experience is still growing

Bonus points

• Built projects using Voice AI, v0.dev, or Cursor
• Participated in hackathons or self-driven AI projects
• You think it’d be fun to reimagine healthcare delivery through AI, and have passion for sleep science, digital health, or behavioral change

• Competitive salary (€70K - €90K) and generous equity. We believe in rewarding great talent fairly. Our approach is slightly above market on salary, and above market on equity - because we want you to grow with us.
• A fast-moving team shipping to real patients every week
• Direct mentorship and collaboration with senior advisors from Netflix Games, Google AI, Harvard Medical School
• Global lean team with offices in Munich Urban Colab and Pagliuca Harvard Life Labs.
• Flexible hours and remote work options
• Location: Munich, Boston, Remote