AI Engineer

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

How to Apply

• Email [email protected] with the subject line “AI Engineer – NJ”.
• Include: your GitHub, portfolio, or anything you have shipped.
• Include: a short note (a few paragraphs) on the coolest thing you built with AI agents, what you built, what went wrong, and how you fixed it.
• Include: where you’re based.
• No cover-letter templates; write it as you would explain it to a friend.