Founding AI Engineer
About the job
- At least 4 years of backend, platform, or product engineering experience.
- Have shipped personal projects, open-source work, or launched apps.
- Experience working on small teams and building products from zero.
- Comfort with prompts, evaluations, tool calling, retrieval-augmented generation, and common large language model APIs, including judgment about when to use each tool.
- Strong product instincts, including the ability to scope and ship work independently.
- Strong TypeScript and Python skills.
- Build and maintain backends for existing applications and stand up new backends as specialty applications launch.
- Own backend systems end to end, from schema design through production.
- Build clinician-facing dashboards and tooling for the medical team to review AI output.
- Develop internal tools used daily by clinical operations and physicians.
- Work on prompts, tool calling, and inference optimization for AI features in the applications.
- Build evaluations and observability to assess deployed AI systems and define quality criteria.
- Implement abstention, routing, and fallback strategies that favor safety and correctness.
- Support work across payments, user flows, clinical infrastructure, and model deployment.
- Help architect systems that support product expansion into new verticals, states, and clinical modalities.
- Experience in a regulated industry such as healthcare or fintech.
- Comfort with infrastructure and deploying software, including Docker and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
- Familiarity with Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, Health Level Seven, or healthcare data standards.
- Experience with observability stacks such as Langfuse, Sentry, or similar tools.
- Prior work in clinical AI, digital health, or other regulated domains.
About the company
Nolla Health provides remote dermatology care through a direct-to-consumer subscription service that includes an AI skin scan, clinician-reviewed treatment plan, and personalized compounded topical prescriptions shipped to patients with ongoing monitoring. The AI uses Vision Transformers and multimodal models trained on over a million cases covering 1,600+ skin conditions; licensed professionals review diagnoses and treatment plans to ensure HIPAA compliance. It differentiates itself by combining automated analysis with clinician oversight, a $59/month no-insurance model, and delivery of customized compounded medications. Its goal is to make personalized dermatology accessible worldwide by scaling remote care, expanding in the US, and providing continuous data-informed treatment.
Company Size
1-10
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$4.5M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2024
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Nolla reached 55,000 Norwegian patients within six months, proving demand.
- August 2026 added Harvard-trained Dr. Zaid Fadul to its advisory board.
- The New York base and $4.5 million seed from General Catalyst accelerate U.S. expansion.
What critics are saying
- A state board or FDA crackdown can stop Nolla's prescription model entirely.
- Compounded acne prescriptions invite FDA scrutiny and pharmacy supply interruptions.
- Bigger platforms like Amazon Clinic and Ro attack Nolla's $59 subscription economics.
What makes Nolla Health unique
- Nolla pairs AI skin scans with licensed clinicians across 40+ U.S. states.
- Its 2026 app tracks acne monthly and ships customized prescriptions directly.
- Founders combine Worldcoin engineering, MIT dermatology AI research, and Apple software execution.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Flexible Work Hours
- Meal Benefits
- Company Equity
- Remote Work Options