Posted on:January 14, 2026

Senior Clinical Context Engineer at Doctronic

Doctronic is hiring a Senior Clinical Context Engineer in Los Angeles, CA, US. Remote. Pay: USD 200k-350k/yr.

About Doctronic

Doctronic is an AI-powered healthcare platform that provides free, anonymous, HIPAA-aligned AI consultations for symptom checking and treatment plans based on peer-reviewed medical research. It also connects users with licensed doctors for online video or text visits for a fee, with insurance accepted, available across all 50 states.

Senior Clinical Context Engineer job description

Senior Clinical Context Engineer

Doctronic Physicians Group (DPG) & Doctronic Inc.

Position Overview

We seek a physician-leader to bridge clinical medicine and artificial intelligence. This role combines hands-on context engineering with strategic leadership, requiring both deep medical knowledge and comfort with AI/LLM technologies.

Key Responsibilities

Medical AI Development (50%)

  • Write and refine medical guidelines and prompts that enable our LLMs to provide accurate clinical responses

  • Translate medical knowledge into structured formats for our agentic workflows and knowledge graph

  • Ensure AI outputs align with current medical standards across urgent care, primary care, chronic disease management, and medication management

Systems & Evaluation (30%)

  • Organize medical databases supporting our AI agents and consensus models

  • Develop evaluation frameworks to assess LLM performance in clinical contexts

  • Create metrics specific to diagnosis accuracy, treatment appropriateness, and prescription safety

Cross-functional Collaboration (20%)

  • Day-to-day interaction with engineering team to develop and refine architecture

  • Gather feedback from our physician network to identify improvement opportunities

  • Partner with engineering on integration between AI doctor and EHR system


Required Qualifications

Medical Background

  • MD, DO, or equivalent; completed residency in any specialty

  • Strong clinical decision-making skills with experience in urgent care, primary care, or internal medicine preferred

Technical Expertise

  • Data science background and a deep understanding of managing large databases

  • Demonstrated deep knowledge of AI and large language models

  • Experience with or strong interest in prompt engineering

  • Comfort with iterative testing and rapid prototyping

  • Familiarity with EHR systems and clinical workflows

Leadership Skills

  • Proven ability to manage multidisciplinary teams

  • Exceptional writing and editorial skills for medical content

  • Experience developing clinical protocols or guidelines

Preferred Qualifications

  • Previous experience at healthcare technology companies or digital health startups

  • Understanding of HIPAA compliance and healthcare data privacy

What We Offer

  • Direct impact on healthcare accessibility for millions of patients

  • Opportunity to shape AI medical standards at a pioneering company

  • Work with world-class AI technology unique in the industry

  • Competitive equity package

  • Salary commensurate with experience

  • Parental Leave: 12 weeks fully paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender or path to parenthood — no distinction between birthing and non-birthing parents

About Doctronic

Doctronic is the #1 AI Doctor, revolutionizing direct-to-patient healthcare through our proprietary AI system. Doctronic is the first AI legally authorized to practice medicine. We're processing millions of consultations monthly with 99%+ treatment plan accuracy validated by board-certified clinicians. Our platform (doctronic.ai) provides free, anonymous, HIPAA-compliant AI consultations alongside affordable human physician visits ($40) available 24/7 across all 50 states via instant video, scheduled video, or async text.

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