Staff Software Engineer, AI Engineering
Tebra · Heredia, Heredia, Costa Rica
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 81 days Tebra's roles stay open a median of 82 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Tebra's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Tebra
- high 25 stale, 1 reposted of 25 open
- Hiring momentum
- 35 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-24
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Tebra's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Tebra.
About this role
The Staff Software Engineer for AI Engineering will lead the design and development of AI-native capabilities within Tebra's billing and revenue cycle platform. This role involves integrating AI technologies, such as Large Language Models, into backend services and workflows to enhance operational efficiency. The engineer will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect scalable solutions and mentor junior engineers while ensuring adherence to best practices in software development.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Tebra as an employer.
What you need
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building scalable distributed systems
- Absolute mastery of Java, Spring Boot, and Python for developing secure, high-throughput, cloud-native backend systems
- 2–3+ years of hands-on experience designing, shipping, and maintaining production AI-enabled or AI-native applications
- Practical experience with orchestration frameworks and a deep understanding of RAG, tool calling, prompt engineering, context/state management, and human-in-the-loop patterns
- Strong background in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, and messaging platforms
- Proven experience implementing enterprise AI guardrails, including real-time observability, latency/cost monitoring, automated evaluation pipelines, and robust fallback mechanisms
Nice to have
- Experience building autonomous, multi-step agentic systems utilizing multi-tier memory networks and recursive reasoning
- Prior background in Healthcare IT, Revenue Cycle Management, billing, claims processing, fintech, or similarly regulated, high-compliance transaction environments
- Hands-on experience with vector databases, semantic search architectures, and enterprise knowledge graph construction
- Exposure to PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, custom embedding models, fine-tuning methodologies, or model serving optimization
- Past experience serving as a Founding Engineer, Principal Architect, or early-stage platform lead driving organization-wide AI/ML adoption frameworks
What you get
- Wellness and childcare subsidy
- University/Education discount
- Access to health and fitness apps through Gympass
- Mental health resources through Telus Employee Assistance Program
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Role requires a combination of technical leadership and hands-on implementation
- Expectations for mentoring junior engineers may require additional time commitment
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Listed by Tebra on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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