AI Engineer
nu image medicalMahwah (NJ)
About the role
Nu Image Medical is hiring an AI Engineer (founding member) to help open its new NJ office and build production AI agent workflows in an in-person role in the Mahwah/Wyckoff area.
Responsibilities: Own AI engineering and hands-on code development end to end.
Review diffs from agents running in parallel on branches ; push back on bad code and write the tricky parts yourself.
Work with the CTO on architecture and priorities, then turn decisions into shipped code.
Own the code agents generate by reading every line, debugging by hand, and fixing production issues when agents get it wrong.
Handle production breakages directly rather than relying on what 'the agent wrote'.
Investigate weird bugs using logs, queries, and a debugger to find root causes.
Find and resolve issues nobody asked for, such as slow queries, flaky jobs, or tools that could save hours.
Communicate outcomes: show what shipped, what broke, and what you want to try next.
Build a modern web platform and internal tools that people actually enjoy using.
Build integrations and automation to connect systems and reduce busywork.
Develop AI-powered workflows including agent setups, guardrails, and review steps that enable a small core to build faster.
Build secure, reliable, well-tested systems with healthcare-grade privacy and security baked in from day one.
Take initiative: identify problems, build improvements, and deliver fixes.
Requirements:
Ability to ship with AI coding agents daily, including Cursor and the Grok ecosystem (including Grok Bot ), plus similar tools.
Stay current with modern AI tooling and rapid changes month to month.
Build real agent workflows : task breakdown, parallel agents, prompt and agent orchestration, and review loops to catch bad output before release.
Verify agent output using tests first, reading diffs line by line, and not trusting output that only 'looks right'.
Protect sensitive data (customer information, secrets, credentials) by keeping it out of prompts, logs, and tools not approved for it.
Comfort debugging and building without AI when needed: read unfamiliar code, step through it, and fix by hand.
Strong software architecture instincts: explain design choices and recognize when an agent’s approach will hurt later.
Strong PHP and Laravel experience: queues, jobs, scheduler, events, and Eloquent without N+1 issues.
Strong SQL skills with MySQL : schema design, indexing, migrations, reading query plans, and writing queries yourself.
Hands‑on debugging: logs, stack traces, Xdebug or similar, reproducing issues, and root‑cause analysis.
Security and privacy best practices: authentication and authorization, input validation, encryption, least privilege, OWASP Top Risks, and secrets handling.
Commute to the Mahwah / Wyckoff area and prefer in‑office work.
Technologies
Cursor, Grok, Grok Bot
PHP, Laravel, Vue, Tailwind
MySQL, Xdebug
REST APIs, Redis
AWS
Pest, PHPUnit
GitHub Actions
Laravel Nova, Filament
AWS CDK, Terraform, Pulumi
OWASP Top Risks
Nice-to-Haves: Infrastructure as code experience (Terraform, AWS CDK, Pulumi, or similar).
Observability background (structured logs, metrics, tracing, alerts).
Experience building MCP servers, agent tools, or custom agent integrations.
Prompt and agent eval experience.
Experience with Laravel Horizon, Octane, Pulse, or Reverb.
Advanced threat modeling and secrets management beyond the basics.
Open‑source work, side projects, or talks at meetups.
What You’ll Build (with the CTO)
A modern web platform and internal tools that people actually enjoy using.
Integrations and automation that connect systems and reduce busywork.
AI-powered workflows, including agent setups, guardrails, and review steps.
Secure, reliable, well‑tested systems with healthcare‑grade privacy and security.
Role Details
Location: Mahwah, NJ 07430 (onsite)
Salary: USD 75,000 - 105,000 per year
Schedule style: Agents running in parallel while you review diffs, push back on bad code, and write the tricky parts yourself
Benefits: Health insurance
Paid time off (PTO)
About Nu Image
US telehealth company founded in 2004 and online since 2008.
LegitScript certified and serving all 50 states.
Opening a new office in the Mahwah / Wyckoff area of New Jersey; this role is in person.
Website: https://nuimage.com
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