Sierra
Software Engineer, Agent - Healthcare Integrations
About this role
Sierra is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build healthcare integration capabilities that enable AI agents to safely connect with EHRs and healthcare systems. You'll own production integrations with Epic, athenahealth, Oracle Health, and similar platforms, establishing standards for secure, compliant healthcare workflows.
What you'll do
- Design and build core healthcare integration primitives and reusable platform capabilities for data access, authentication, and authorization
- Own production integrations with major EHR systems using FHIR, HL7, APIs, and customer-specific patterns
- Partner with Agent Engineers to ship healthcare workflows like appointment scheduling, patient intake, and CRM updates
- Serve as technical SME with customers' EHR, IT, security, and operations teams on interoperability requirements
- Define Sierra's standards for safe healthcare agent actions including validation, permissions, human-in-the-loop review, and PHI safeguards
- Build platform capabilities for write-back workflows, audit logging, observability, testing, and deployment across customers
What they're looking for
- Healthcare interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7, OAuth/SMART authorization, patient identity matching)
- Production EHR integration experience (Epic, athenahealth, Oracle Health, eClinicalWorks, MEDITECH)
- HIPAA, healthcare security, privacy, and compliance constraints
- Backend systems design and production systems architecture
- API design and data mapping in complex healthcare environments
- Customer-facing technical communication and problem-solving
- AI/LLM systems in production (preferred)
- Platform and product judgment for abstraction design
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Sierra
Sierra builds production-grade AI agents for enterprise clients in insurance, financial services, and other industries, enabling companies to automate complex business processes and enhance customer experiences. The company is hiring Software Engineers to design and deploy mission-critical AI systems, develop platform infrastructure, and work directly with enterprise customers on agent development and optimization.
View all jobs at SierraLikely interview questions
- Walk us through a healthcare integration you built—what were the key challenges with HIPAA compliance, data mapping, or EHR-specific quirks?
- How do you approach designing reusable primitives when different healthcare customers have very different workflows and system constraints?