Founding Engineer, Second Hire (Dental AI Startup)
ScrumAID
San Francisco, CA · Posted November 1, 2026
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About the job
An early-stage startup creating AI staff for dental offices that handle patient recall outreach and appointment scheduling, is bringing on engineer number two. Expect to work hand in hand with the founders and own meaningful parts of the product from day one.
What you’ll do
Create and launch AI agents that converse with patients by phone and text message
Create and manage integrations with the systems practices already use
Own product features from idea through production
Help the company scale as it takes on more practices
What you bring
Zero to five years of experience as a full-stack engineer, with both front-end and back-end work shipped in a product
Has shipped and owned at least one real product or major feature end to end, whether at a company or through substantial projects such as hackathon, club or open-source work
Has built and deployed an LLM or agent system that real users or customers actually used
Working knowledge of Python, TypeScript and AWS
Plus: healthcare or health-tech software experience, early or founding engineer background, a CS degree or equally strong experience
On-site in the San Francisco Bay Area. No visa sponsorship or transfers.