Job description
PicnicHealth is simplifying clinical research with AI, making it faster and cheaper to get new treatments to patients. We’re bringing a patient-centered, AI-first approach to a $100b market otherwise dominated by old-school, services-driven incumbents. We’re creating a streamlined operating system for clinical research, built on top of our AI for medical record data in trials and a personal health assistant that keeps patients engaged (NPS 76).
Founded in 2014, PicnicHealth has raised over $100 million from investors including YC, Amplify Partners, Felicis Ventures and B Capital Group. Our business running observational studies more than doubled last year and we expect to grow even faster this year. We’ve gained real traction in a conservative industry: 12 of the top 20 pharma companies use PicnicHealth, we’ve got 60+ publications across 40 disease areas, and we just had our first FDA approval that included our data in the submission.
The Opportunity
As our first AI Tools Engineer, your mission is to enable PicnicHealth to operate dramatically more effectively with AI. You’ll identify promising AI tools, quickly prototype integrations, build robust yet lightweight workflows, and ensure these tools reliably enhance day-to-day work across every function. Your success will be measured by how effectively your teammates adopt these tools, automate routine tasks, and focus their energy on high-value work.
What You’ll Do
- Discover, test, and deploy AI SaaS products: Rapidly evaluate tools and roll out those that provide immediate impact.
- Build streamlined workflows and agents: Use no-code/low-code platforms (Retool, Gumloop, Zapier) or deploy quick Python/TypeScript services on platforms like Cloud Run or Vercel when needed.
- Integrate widely-used tools: Ensure seamless integration of PicnicHealth sources of context, e.g. Asana, Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Google Drive, Linear, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Salesforce.
- Own reliability and performance: Actively monitor and ensure the uptime of AI-driven workflows. When something breaks, you’ll know first.
- Drive adoption: View success as the tools you deploy being adopted and driving their intended outcomes.
- Educate and empower: Lead practical workshops, regular office hours, and develop internal resources so every teammate confidently becomes an AI power user.
- Stay ahead of the curve: Keep PicnicHealth at the forefront by continually testing and iterating with new tools and practices.
You’ll Thrive in This Role If You:
- Have a CS background or equivalent experience with demonstrated ability to ship practical, functional projects quickly.
- Prototype ideas using LLMs and automation tools as naturally as breathing
- Can spin up a small web service but prefer rapid solutions or SaaS tools that avoid unnecessary complexity
- Care most about delivering business successes, and enjoy making others more effective. You’ll feel successful when your internal customers thrive.
- Take pride in your desire to digging into the details of messy & sometimes mundane business processes to make sure you deliver real value
- Are plugged into AI spaces (Twitter/X, Discord) and can separate the signal from the noise.
- Follow The Way of Code, and believe people should apply vibing to many parts of life beyond coding
- Have excellent judgment, strong communication skills, and a bias for action
Nice-to-haves: Hackathon background, experience with Retool (or similar low/no-code tools), knowledge of vector databases, comfort with regulated data environments.
We expect all team members to be amazing in their roles and, ultimately, to move the PicnicHealth mission forward.
What is clinical research and why will PicnicHealth win?
Clinical research is the industry responsible for conducting studies to evaluate the effectiveness of drugs and treatments. Better trials lead to faster, more cost-effective drug development, ultimately resulting in more and improved treatments for patients. However, the process remains highly inefficient. Trials are a major bottleneck in drug development, and the promising advancements in biotech cannot achieve their full potential unless clinical research becomes more effective
The industry runs on outdated technology and manual processes. Research sites (hospitals, academic centers, doctors’ offices) are a major bottleneck, and contract research organizations (CROs) spend most of their time wrangling sites and cobbling together vendor software.
PicnicHealth has built technology that uniquely positions us to run faster, cheaper, and more flexible studies without requiring sites:
- PicnicAI (trained on 350M+ clinician annotations over 100k+ patient records) is the only system that can effectively access and structure all participant EMR data trials need
- Our AI health assistant (NPS of 76) guides participants through study activities and enables most to be done at home
- We’re an integrated solution — virtual site, CRO, and software platform — with AI built in from the ground up, initially focusing on observational research.
The other perks & benefits you get when you work at PicnicHealth
We pay competitive salaries. Everyone on the team is an owner: all full time employees get competitive equity.
Target Base Salary Range: $120K – $150K
The base salary PicnicHealth offers may vary depending upon the scope, complexity, and autonomy of the position and on the candidate’s job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
We’re a remote first company, with teammates spread across the US. We support in-person gatherings, including co-working spaces and multi-day onsites, to build connections and move forward strategic initiatives. Expect to travel 2-4 times a year. For our team members in the Bay Area, who prefer to work in person we can offer a hybrid set up to work from the SF office on a flexible schedule.
You also get:
- Comprehensive benefits including above market Health, Dental, Vision
- Family friendly environment
- Flexible time off
- 401k plan
- Free PicnicHealth account
- Equipment and internet funds for home office set up
- Wellness Stipend
PicnicHealth is committed to promoting an inclusive work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We value a diverse and balanced team where everyone can belong.
