About Linear Health
We are an AI-native healthcare operations platform in the US. We sit above the electronic health record and automate the outbound work clinics do by hand today: referrals, prior authorization, scheduling, care gap closure, and patient outreach across voice, SMS, and email. Our customers are healthcare providers across the US, including federally qualified health centers serving patients who often have nowhere else to go. We are lean, profitable, and moving fast.
What you would build
- Production checks that ask simple yes or no questions every few minutes, across every customer: did the referral reach a final state, did the prior authorization get a payer acknowledgement, did the appointment the voice agent confirmed actually land in the EHR
- A configuration file for every customer, with a checker that proves the live deployment matches it
- Our shared test framework in Python, pytest and Playwright for Python, published as a versioned package that every project installs
- Workflow tests for every customer that run nightly and before every release, behind one command that comes back green or red
- Test scenarios for our voice and chat agents, run against simulated patients
- The standards our engineers and their AI coding tools follow, so every change ships with its own tests
Who we are looking for
We have learned exactly what makes someone succeed here, so we screen for it on purpose.
You pick things up fast.
We explain a workflow once and you run with it. If you need it explained three times, or need to be walked through every step, this is not the seat.
You take full ownership.
You carry work all the way to done without being chased, you keep your files and your work where they belong, and you close your own loops. Nobody should have to chase you for basics.
You are proactive.
You spot gaps, ask the right questions early, and flag problems before they grow, instead of going quiet or waiting to be told.
You communicate.
Strong, clear written and spoken English, because you will be on live calls, in customer meetings, and writing customer-facing messages.
You take deadlines and reliability seriously.
You do not need US healthcare experience. You do need to ramp fast and be comfortable in a regulated, high-stakes domain.
Must have, and be ready to prove
- 5+ years in test automation, including designing a framework that other engineers depend on
- Real depth in Python, pytest and Playwright for Python. We do not use Selenium, WebDriver, Cypress or Java
- You test workflows whose results arrive minutes later, using deadlines and state checks, never fixed sleeps
- You have run test suites in CI on every pull request and kept them fast and reliable
- Fluent, confident spoken and written English
Experience testing healthcare software, HL7 or FHIR integrations, or AI and voice agents. Synthetic test data, AWS and GitHub Actions. You do not need SOC 2 or HIPAA experience, but you should be aware of what they are.
This is an individual engagement
You will do this work yourself. No agencies, no teams, no consultancies, no subcontracting, and no passing the work to anyone else. If you are an agency, or you plan to route this through other people, please do not apply.
We check for this throughout the engagement. If we find at any point that you misrepresented yourself, or that someone else is doing the work, the engagement ends immediately.
The engagement
- Long-term and full-time. The first 90 days are a paid trial while we both confirm the fit. We invest heavily in the people who clear it
- We cover the AI tooling you need to do the work, including your Claude licence
- You must overlap at least 6 hours every working day with US Central Time. For most of the world that means working into your evening or night. Only apply if that genuinely fits your life
- The work is intense and the bar is high. We move fast
- Compensation is discussed directly with you early in the process
How we work
We are a small, flat, fast team and we hold a real bar. Apply only if this is the environment you want, or the one you are hungry to grow into.
- We live on Slack all day. You are online, reachable, and quick to respond during working hours
- Daily standup is mandatory. A weekly team meeting is mandatory
- We build spec-first with AI in the loop. You write clear specs and direct AI coding agents, and you remain responsible for understanding everything that ships. You should be able to explain any of it and debug it quickly
- We are iterative. Pick something up, close it, move on. We do not believe in long cycles
- You are customer-facing: customer calls, customer emails, customer presentations
If you want a quiet, heads-down, low-communication role, this is not it.
Our hiring process
We move quickly and we tell you where you stand at every step.
- 01
Submit your CV
for screening.
- 02
Short review task
We send you a short testing scenario based on a real kind of workflow we run. Record a Loom of up to 2 minutes, camera and audio on, walking through how you would test it. There is no answer sheet. We are listening for how you think.
- 03
Panel interview, 25 minutes
You meet the founder and members of our engineering team. Expect to talk through your approach and write a small piece of Python test code live. Fast-paced and strictly timed, so short, clear answers win.
- 04
Offer or decline in the same week.
Either way you get a clear answer, not silence.