
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
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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”
About Us
Hippocratic AI is developing the first safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare. Our mission is to dramatically improve healthcare accessibility and outcomes by bringing deep healthcare expertise to every person. No other technology has the potential for this level of global impact on health.
Why Join Our Team
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 a Senior Backend LLM Engineer at Hippocratic AI, you will play a key role in building the core infrastructure that powers our AI-driven healthcare products. You’ll join a collaborative team of engineers, applied scientists, and healthcare professionals working at the intersection of Generative AI and clinical workflows. Your work will focus on designing, developing, and scaling backend systems that ensure our products are safe, reliable, and ready for high-stakes use in healthcare environments.
This role is deeply cross-functional—you will work closely with ML engineers, data scientists, product managers, designers, and clinical experts to transform complex requirements into secure, high-performance backend services. From data processing pipelines to API design and system reliability, your contributions will directly shape how patients and providers interact with next-generation AI systems.
We’re looking for engineers who are passionate about innovation, thrive in fast-paced environments, and want to build real-world healthcare solutions with cutting-edge AI technologies.
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If you’re an engineer passionate about building high scale AI-powered experiences and ready to work on cutting-edge B2B products that make a real impact in healthcare, we’d love to hear from you.
Join our team at Hippocratic AI and help shape the future of clinically safe, production-grade AI systems