WebPT · 3 days ago
Principal Engineer, Agentic AI
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$170K/yr - $200K/yr
10+ years expWebPT is a company focused on empowering rehab therapy professionals. They are seeking a Principal Engineer specializing in Agentic AI to define architectural goals and implementation strategies for AI-driven workflows, enhancing clinical efficiency and patient experience.
Electronic Health Record (EHR)Health CareSoftwareTherapeutics
Responsibilities
Problem Decomposition: Excel at decomposing complex clinical workflows into discrete, reasoning-based AI agents, organizing the architectural strategies needed to implement them
Agentic Orchestration: Define the root business problems and use that knowledge to design integrated AI solutions (e.g., ambient listening for documentation or automated waitlist management) across multiple applications
Reference Architecture Alignment: Work with the company’s architecture team to ensure AI agents are built on shared services and systems, reducing waste and maintaining a cohesive software ecosystem
Innovation & Competitiveness: Set goals around emerging AI standards and agentic frameworks to keep the business competitive in the rapidly evolving AI-native EMR market
Collaborative Leadership: Partner with internal Data Scientists and third-party AI engineers to drive project execution, serving as the technical anchor for the team during the staff augmentation phase and beyond
Agile AI Development: Apply agile and lean principles to AI development, timeboxing experiments and focusing on delivering immediate clinical value through iterative agent refinement
Cross-Functional Alignment: Work with stakeholders outside of engineering to align AI capabilities with Product and UX goals, ensuring agents are streamlined and intuitive for healthcare providers
Documentation & Evangelism: Maintain strong documentation practices to evangelize new AI development patterns and gain adoption of agentic practices across the department
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, or a related technical field
10+ years of professional engineering experience, including significant time spent in a Principal Engineer or Lead Architect capacity
Deep technical proficiency in designing multi-agent orchestration systems
Hands-on experience with frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI)
Sophisticated understanding of agentic patterns like planning, tool-use, and self-reflection
Proven ability to provide technical 'anchor' leadership in a hybrid environment
Expert-level ability to take a messy clinical workflow and decompose it into a structured data model and a sequence of AI-driven reasoning steps
A track record of 'Deep Dives' into complex business domains, translating nebulous clinical needs into precise technical requirements
Experience moving AI from 'prototype/notebook' to 'production-grade'
Implementing evaluation frameworks (LLM-as-a-judge)
Monitoring for agent drift
Ensuring deterministic outcomes in non-deterministic systems
Preferred
Familiarity with clinical documentation standards, HIPAA compliance, and the nuances of EMR data sets
High-level understanding of retrieval strategies (RAG) to support agentic reasoning and long-term memory
Previous experience leading a hybrid team of internal and external resources
Ability to take full ownership of the technology stack post-vendor disengagement
Company
WebPT
WebPT is a web-based physical therapy EMR providing integrated documentation, scheduling, billing solutions and more for therapists.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$44.05MKey Investors
Battery VenturesBrookstone Venture Capital
2019-08-27Acquired
2015-05-15Debt Financing· $0.05M
2014-06-25Series Unknown· $43M
Leadership Team
Andrea Facini
Chief Executive Officer
Heidi Jannenga
Co-Founder and Chief Clinical Officer
Recent News
2026-01-15
Company data provided by crunchbase