Staff Platform Engineer, AI Enablement

Our Mission Healthcare should work for patients, but it doesn’t. In their time of need, they call down outdated insurance directories. Then wait on hold. Then wait weeks for the privilege of a visit. Then wait in a room solely designed for waiting. Then wait for a surprise bill. In any other consumer industry, the companies delivering such a poor customer experience would not survive. But in healthcare, patients lack market power. Which means they are expected to accept the unacceptable. Zocdoc’s mission is to give power to the patient. To do that, we’ve built the leading healthcare marketplace that makes it easy to find and book in-person or virtual care in all 50 states, across +200 specialties and +12k insurance plans. By giving patients the ability to see and choose, we give them power. In doing so, we can make healthcare work like every other consumer sector, where businesses compete for customers, not the other way around. In time, this will drive quality up and prices down. We’re 18 years old and the leader in our space, but we are still just getting started. If you like solving important, complex problems alongside deeply thoughtful, driven, and collaborative teammates, read on. Your Impact on Our Mission At Zocdoc, we're on a mission to give power to the patient — and that starts with enabling every person at Zocdoc to build, ship, and leverage technology safely, confidently, and with leverage. As a Staff Platform Engineer focused on AI Enablement, you will design, build, and evolve the foundational systems, tooling, guardrails, and paved roads that create leverage across our engineering organization and beyond — accelerating delivery while improving reliability, consistency, and developer experience. Critically, this role has a wider aperture than most platform roles: you will own AI enablement for both technical and non-technical stakeholders , building opinionated platforms and safe onramps that allow every builder at Zocdoc — regardless of their engineering background — to harness AI tools productively and securely. This role sits within the Infrastructure organization. You will collaborate across the business to turn platform strategy into practical, adoptable solutions — working side by side with a parallel squad focused on the technical engineering audience, and bridging the gap between engineering-grade tools and the non-technical teams (People, Operations, Sales, Finance, and others) who increasingly build and depend on AI-powered workflows. The role emphasizes hands-on technical leadership (~80%) with meaningful input into platform direction (~20%). Your work will abstract operational complexity, define guardrails for safe AI usage, improve testability and safety, and streamline the builder journey across both software-engineering and non-engineering surfaces. You'll Enjoy This Role If You... Enjoy building platforms that enable productivity, consistency, and autonomy for diverse audiences Enjoy learning and teaching others about leveraging AI-based technologies to achieve real-world results Are motivated by making other people more effective; not just shipping your own features Like designing cohesive developer and/or non-technical experiences that teams actually want to adopt Care deeply about empathy, usability, and reducing cognitive load Prefer solving real problems through thoughtful design, iteration, and collaboration Are comfortable translating complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders — and enjoy doing it Find satisfaction in building systems that scale predictably and help others succeed Thrive in environments with ambiguity, frequent change, and evolving prioritization — and bring clarity where there was none Are a natural collaborator Your Day to Day Design and build platform services and solutions that are secure, scalable, and intentionally easy to use — including CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, shared infrastructure patterns, and AI-powered developer workflows Contribute…