
Hippocratic AI has developed a safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare. The company believes that a safe LLM can dramatically improve healthcare accessibility and health outcomes in the world by bringing deep healthcare expertise to every human. No other technology has the potential to have this level of global impact on health. The company was co-founded by CEO Munjal Shah, alongside a group of physicians, hospital administrators, healthcare professionals, and artificial intelligence researchers from El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Microsoft, Google, and NVIDIA. Hippocratic AI has received a total of $278 million in funding and is backed by leading investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA’s NVentures, Premji Invest, SV Angel, and six health systems. For more information on Hippocratic AI, www.HippocraticAI.com.

Hippocratic AI has developed a safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare. The company believes that a safe LLM can dramatically improve healthcare accessibility and health outcomes in the world by bringing deep healthcare expertise to every human. No other technology has the potential to have this level of global impact on health. The company was co-founded by CEO Munjal Shah, alongside a group of physicians, hospital administrators, healthcare professionals, and artificial intelligence researchers from El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Microsoft, Google, and NVIDIA. Hippocratic AI has received a total of $278 million in funding and is backed by leading investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA’s NVentures, Premji Invest, SV Angel, and six health systems. For more information on Hippocratic AI, www.HippocraticAI.com.
Founded: February 2023
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Core product: Safety-focused LLMs and generative-AI agents for patient-facing, non-diagnostic healthcare tasks
Reported total funding: Approximately $278M–$404M (reported figures vary by source)
Employees (reported): 267
Healthcare staffing shortages and patient-facing clinical communication
2023
Hospitals and Health Care
$141 million
Reported post-money valuation about $1.64B
$53 million
Reported prior 2024 financing
$17 million
Reported prior 2024 financing
$126 million
Reported Series C amount; specific date and lead not stated in provided evidence
“Backed by prominent financial investors and health-system investors including Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, Premji Invest, SV Angel, NVIDIA’s NVentures and multiple health systems”
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About Us Hippocratic AI is the leading generative AI company in healthcare. We have the only system that can have safe, autonomous, clinical conversations with patients. We have trained our own LLMs as part of our Polaris constellation, resulting in a system with over 99.9% accuracy.
Why Join Our Team Reinvent healthcare with AI that puts safety first. We’re building the world’s first healthcare‑only, safety‑focused LLM — a breakthrough platform designed to transform patient outcomes at a global scale. This is category creation.
Hippocratic AI was co‑founded by CEO Munjal Shah and a team of physicians, hospital leaders, AI pioneers, and researchers from institutions like El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.
Backed by the world’s leading healthcare and AI investors. We recently raised a $126M Series C at a $3.5B valuation, led by Avenir Growth, bringing total funding to $404M with participation from CapitalG, General Catalyst, a16z, Kleiner Perkins, Premji Invest, UHS, Cincinnati Children’s, WellSpan Health, John Doerr, Rick Klausner, and others.
Build alongside the best in healthcare and AI. Join experts who’ve spent their careers improving care, advancing science, and building world‑changing technologies — ensuring our platform is powerful, trusted, and truly transformative.
Location Requirement We believe the best ideas happen together. To support fast collaboration and a strong team culture, this role is expected to be in our Palo Alto office five days a week, unless otherwise specified.
About The Role As an AI Engineer at Hippocratic AI , you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of voice-based generative AI in healthcare . You’ll design and build the intelligent systems that power our clinically safe healthcare agents , working at the intersection of large language models, real-time voice, and human-centered product design.
This is a deeply hands-on and cross-functional role , partnering closely with AI researchers, product managers, and clinical experts to bring advanced language and speech models into production. From building scalable RAG and multi-agent pipelines to conversational interactions, your work will directly influence how patients and providers safely interact with generative AI at scale.
We’re looking for experienced engineers who are passionate about AI in the real world —people who love taking cutting-edge research, turning it into robust products, and advancing the frontier of what’s possible in safe, agentic healthcare systems .
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If you’re an AI engineer who thrives at the intersection of cutting-edge research and real-world product impact , we’d love to hear from you.
Join Hippocratic AI and help shape the future of clinically safe, voice-enabled AI systems that are already transforming patient care at scale.
Please be aware of recruitment scams impersonating Hippocratic AI. All recruiting communication will come from @ hippocraticai.com email addresses. We will never request payment or sensitive personal information during the hiring process.