AI Engineer

🏢 Collate · 📍 San Francisco · 💼 onsite
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

About Collate
 
Collate is an AI document generation platform for life sciences. We automate paperwork with AI, helping our customers get life-saving innovations to patients years faster. Collate is an end-to-end solution, powering every step of drug, diagnostic, and medical device development—from concept to market.
 
Our CEO Surbhi Sarna is a former General Partner at Y Combinator. Surbhi founded nVision Medical, which developed a new method to detect ovarian cancer and was acquired by Boston Scientific. Our CTO Nate Smith is a former Visiting Partner at Y Combinator and founder of Lever. Our AI researchers, engineers, and designers have worked at Google, Nvidia, Meta, Netflix, Amazon, AirBnB, Hippocratic AI, and Grail, and 40% of our team are former founders.
 
We’re an elite team, with $125M in funding from top investors (Redpoint, First Round Capital, CRV, Conviction, Y Combinator) and leaders in healthcare and AI. This is a rare chance to join an early-stage company with world-changing potential, experienced founders, and resources to execute at scale.
 
 
About the Role
 
We’re looking for an AI Engineer to help build and productionize the models and systems that power Collate’s products. You’ll work at the intersection of machine learning, software engineering, and product — turning cutting-edge research into reliable, user-facing capabilities.
 
This is an opportunity to shape how advanced AI is applied in Life sciences — a space where performance, safety, and trust matter as much as innovation. As one of the first AI-focused engineers at Collate, you’ll define the standa
🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Collate Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Testing rapid architectural problem-solving, developer-first empathy, and the capability to build high-performance data integration pipelines.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Over-engineering simple solutions or failing to consider the end-user developer experience.
  • 2. Getting defensive when code is challenged or refactored live by engineering leads.
  • 3. Lack of foundational knowledge in distributed systems and asynchronous data processing.
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I build resilient, low-latency data pipelines that make complex integrations feel entirely seamless for the end developer.

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