Forward Deployed Engineer at Arini (W24)
$150K - $300K  •  0.10% - 0.50%
AI receptionist for dentists
San Francisco
Full-time
US citizen/visa only
3+ years
About Arini

At Arini, we are building the AI-native operating system for dental groups. Arini is the AI receptionist for dentists that answers phone calls and schedules appointments. Most dental appointments are scheduled over the phone by overworked receptionists who put patients on hold and miss a third of incoming calls.

Arini is the AI-native operating system for dental groups. We've built agents that take over the patient engagement journey through calls and texts, and we are on a mission to build deeper dental agents that focus on revenue cycle management, top-of funnel, and more.

Over the last few months, we went from answering a few calls a day, to answering 100% of calls. Today, dentists all over the US and Canada are trusting us with their phones, calendars, and revenue.

We are making generative AI available to those who need it the most.

About the role

The AI Operating System for Healthcare

Healthcare runs on legacy software that was last updated a decade ago. Systems don’t talk to each other. Interfaces lag. “Automation” means someone copy-pasting data between tabs.

At Arini , we’re leap-frogging the SaaS era. No more EHRs, no more outdated dashboards, just agents and a database. We’re building the AI operating system for healthcare systems , starting with dental enterprises. Our platform automates phones, scheduling, insurance verification, and workflows across the stack.

We partner with the largest healthcare enterprises, understand their bottlenecks, and build well architected system to optimize their operations.

The Team

We’re a small, elite team of builders and operators who move fast and own outcomes. Our team comes from Meta, SpaceX, Tesla, MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, and other YC startups and were previously founders who’ve built and exited healthtech companies.

We’re obsessed with reliability, real impact, and replacing slow legacy systems with software that just works.

The Role

You’ll work side-by-side with some of the largest healthcare enterprises in North America. Embedding yourself with their teams to understand workflows, automate them, and deploy production-grade AI systems. Think Palantir-style engineering, but for healthcare automation.

This roles requires a special flavor of engineers: those are are technical enough, yet also sociable enough to own customer relationships. You will present to board rooms, CEOs, and VPs at some of the largest healthcare enterprises.

What you’ll do

  • Lead discovery with operations and revenue cycle teams to deeply understand problems.

  • Design, prototype, and deploy AI agents and automation workflows directly with customers.

  • Write production code to integrate into enterprise systems.

  • Own outcomes: you ship automation that saves millions in cost and/or hours.

Preferred Qualifications

  • A systems thinker with strong communication and empathy for operators.

  • Comfortable writing code, analyzing data, and owning enterprise outcomes.

  • Excited by fast iteration, ambiguity, and delivering visible business impact.

  • Willing to travel for on-site deployments (1–2 weeks every month).

Benefits

  • Competitive salary with meaningful equity

  • Travel/lodging is 100% covered

  • Free health, dental, and vision insurance

  • Free in-office lunch and dinners

  • Unlimited PTO

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