Senior Engineer

Company Description

Beacon is a Canadian healthcare AI company developing structured Advance Care Planning for patients with serious illness or advanced age. Most patients over 70 have never engaged in a substantive conversation about what they value, what trade-offs they would accept, or how they want to be cared for if they cannot speak for themselves. When a crisis arrives, families and clinicians are forced to make consequential decisions with very little to guide them.

Our platform conducts guided conversations with patients and synthesizes their responses into Value Portraits: structured, fully cited documents in which every clinical inference traces back to a specific patient statement. These portraits support substitute decision-makers and clinical teams during the highest-stakes moments of care, while preserving the patient's authentic voice.

Beacon is positioned as a Clinical Decision Support software under Canadian regulatory standards, is governed by PIPEDA and PHIPA, and is preparing to be pilot-ready (TRL 5-6).

Role Description

Beacon is hiring its first engineer to lead end-to-end development of the platform. The role spans the full stack and focuses on the engineering systems that make the product clinically defensible: the conversational AI that elicits patient values, the citation and verification infrastructure that ties every output to specific patient statements, and the clinical-facing applications used by substitute decision-makers and care teams.

What you'd do:

• Lead engineering across design, implementation, and production deployment
• Own the verification systems that ensure clinical outputs are traceable and grounded
• Make consequential architectural decisions on system design, data handling, and infrastructure, and live with them long-term
• Translate clinical workflow requirements from advisors and pilot partners into technical specifications
• Establish testing, monitoring, and incident response practices appropriate to a regulated healthcare environment

Who we are looking for:

• Senior full-stack engineer, comfortable working directly with LLMs and conversational AI systems
• 5+ years of experience, with at least one full 0-to-1 product cycle
• Strong instinct for identifying and addressing failure modes early in design.
• Cares about the problem. This is end-of-life care. If the mission does not move you, this role will burn you out

Qualifications

• Strong full-stack engineering background, frontend and backend
• Production experience with LLM-powered features
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and systems architecture (GCP, Amazon Bedrock)
• Comfortable owning architecture, infrastructure, and data-handling decisions without a senior engineer to defer to
• Bonus: prior healthcare, regulated-industry, or 0-to-1 startup experience
• Ability to lead technical projects from start to finish

Ontario-based preferred.

Compensation is a mixture of salary and equity.

To apply, send us a DM with your resume, GitHub, and one thing you've built that you're proud of.