Opportunity Overview:
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer - AI to join our Engineering team. In this role, you will build the intelligent agents and applications serving health insurance plans covering over 15 million people. You'll partner closely with product, data science, and clinical teams to build the foundation that transforms how clinical intelligence is delivered at scale. This is an opportunity to make a direct impact on healthcare outcomes while working with modern technologies in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

What you’ll do:

Agent Development: Participate in the development, evaluation, and deployment of Cohere’s AI-powered agents and applications.
Data & Retrieval Architecture: Design data and retrieval architectures that give AI agents the right context across diverse healthcare sources.
Hands-On Engineering: Design, review, and own high-quality agentic code — leading releases, production deployments and on-call support.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with ML/DS teams, product teams, and architects to understand requirements and ensure systems meet business needs.
Security & Compliance: Ensure all agentic components comply with healthcare security and privacy regulations (e.g., HIPAA) and adhere to industry best practices for security.
Agile Development: Contribute to sprint planning, execution, and retrospectives, driving efficiency and velocity within the engineering team and collaborating closely with stakeholders to align with product goals and business priorities.

ISMS roles and responsibilities:

Good knowledge of Information practices.
Assist the manager in all the information security activities implementation and maintenance process.
Ensuring the team and imparted with Competence related to Information security
Responsible for implementation of security policies and procedures and report any issues to the Information Security Manager.

Required Qualifications:

Must-haves

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
6+ years of experience in the software development lifecycle, with demonstrated experience working with popular agent frameworks and language models.
Expertise in one or more modern languages for development. Experience with any cloud platform, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools is a plus.
Experience with AI architectures, Multi-agent systems, RAG, and Evaluation frameworks.
Experience shaping engineering standards, frameworks, or libraries used across multiple teams
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-haves:

Familiarity with human-in-the-loop system design and AI safety considerations in production.
Experience with graph-based or multi-modal data retrieval in the context of AI reasoning.

Ability to commute/relocate:

Hyderabad, Telangana: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Interview Process:

Connect with Talent Acquisition
Meet with the Hiring Manager
Behavioral Interview(s)
Case Study
Interview with Senior Leadership

*Subject to change

About Cohere Health:

Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform and agentic AI-powered solutions connect health plans’ strategic goals and providers’ needs, optimizing the speed, cost, and quality of care. With an enterprise approach that streamlines payer-provider decision-making across the care continuum–including policy, prior authorization, payment accuracy, and more–the company improves collaboration and reduces burden, resulting in up to 8x ROI and 94% provider satisfaction.

With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we expanded our AI-native platform with a comprehensive Payment Integrity Suite that spans data mining, clinical and coding validation, authorization and claims reconciliation, and end-to-end payment integrity services across pre- and post-pay workflows. By connecting clinical and payment insights, our transparent, AI-powered solutions help health plans proactively improve payment accuracy, reduce waste and vendor dependency, strengthen provider relationships, and build smarter, more efficient payment integrity programs.

Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry-wide recognition. We’ve been recognized on TIME’s World Top HealthTech Companies 2025 list, the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024.

We can’t wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all. To us, it’s personal.