Founding Engineer

Founded by a practicing psychiatrist and repeat health-tech entrepreneur, Metta Science is building clinically grounded AI systems for mental health care. We're focused on the intersection of clinical insight, AI safety, and real-world care delivery — building technology that keeps clinicians in control.

We're hiring a Founding Engineer (Full-Stack / AI) to architect and build the first production version of a therapist-integrated AI platform.

This is a 0→1 build with meaningful ownership over architecture, model orchestration, and system design. You'll work directly with a practicing clinician to translate clinical judgment into safe, reliable systems. Clear path to senior technical leadership for the right person.

• End-to-end system architecture (backend + frontend)
• RAG pipeline design and evaluation
• LLM orchestration (Lang Chain / Lang Graph or similar)
• Clinical safety guardrails and human-in-the-loop workflows
• Cloud infrastructure and deployment

• 5–10 years engineering experience
• Deep hands-on work with RAG systems, vector databases, LLM orchestration
• Strong judgment around AI reliability, guardrails, and edge cases
• Experience in healthcare, regulated systems, or safety-critical AI is a strong plus
• Comfortable building in ambiguity with founder-level ownership

• Founding-level equity and early influence on product and culture
• Direct collaboration with a clinical founder deeply embedded in the field
• IP, roadmap, and pilot sites already in place — ready to build
• A chance to define how safe, human-aligned AI shows up in mental health