Founding Engineer - In Person Boston

About Arul Health
Arul Health helps patients with serious illness and their caregivers get the care they need. Our AI agents and human care navigators do the healthcare logistics for patients: scheduling, prior authorizations, insurance navigation, transportation, and financial assistance. We work out of the Harvard i-lab. Top healthcare investors back us, including Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel.
The role
We are hiring a Founding Engineer. You will build our core product with the founder and a small team. You will own features from start to finish: you scope them, build them, ship them, and make them better with feedback from patients.
What you will do
Build and ship full-stack features for our patient platform and internal tools.
Build AI agents that do real healthcare tasks for patients (Google ADK, Gemini, Vertex AI).
Design back-end services and data models in Python (FastAPI) on GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub).
Build clear, simple front-end experiences in React for patients, caregivers, and care navigators.
Help set our engineering standards, including security and HIPAA compliance.
Talk with patients and navigators to understand their problems.
What we look for
Strong full-stack skills across front end, back end, and infrastructure.
Products you shipped: at a startup, at a strong engineering company, or in your own projects.
Experience with LLMs or AI agents (a strong plus).
Good product sense and care for the user experience. Interest in design is a plus.
You take ownership, you move fast, and you are comfortable when things are not clear.
You want to help patients and families who manage serious illness.
How we work
In person in Boston, 5 days a week, at the Harvard i-lab in Allston.
Small team, fast decisions, and direct contact with patients.
What we offer
Competitive salary and significant founding equity.
Medical, dental, and vision benefits from day 1.
The chance to shape the product, the team, and the culture from the start.
Interview process
Intro call.
A 60-minute live product conversation with our founder.
A short take-home brief.
A 60-minute presentation to our founder and an advisor.

Skills
Python, React, FastAPI, GCP, SQL

Work arrangement
No