Forward Deployed Engineer Healthcare

AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.

Recently funded151 current maintainers88 active leads20 new active leads99 lead step-downs12 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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About the Role

You will own healthcare AI deployments from technical discovery through architecture, implementation, evaluation, productionization, and handoff. You will integrate applications with customer systems, apply safeguards for protected health information, define launch criteria and human-review workflows, and use evaluation results and customer feedback to improve reliability and readiness.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of software engineering, ML or AI engineering, solutions engineering, technical consulting, or comparable experience
  • Senior engineering, technical leadership, or deployment ownership experience
  • Experience owning discovery, architecture, implementation, evaluation, productionization, and handoff for complex customer-facing or enterprise systems
  • Healthcare experience with payer workflows, provider operations, EHR systems, or interoperability standards
  • Knowledge of Epic, HL7, FHIR, Oracle Health or Cerner, MEDITECH, or health information exchanges
  • Knowledge of AI evaluation, privacy, security, governance, and reliability

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical solution from customer discovery through handoff
  • Translate healthcare workflows into technical requirements and measurable outcomes
  • Design and implement production AI applications and agentic systems
  • Integrate systems with customer infrastructure, enterprise APIs, data platforms, electronic health records, claims systems, and operational tools
  • Apply safeguards for PHI, HIPAA, privacy, security, authorization, governance, and auditability
  • Define evaluations, validation evidence, human-review workflows, escalation paths, and launch criteria
  • Use evaluation results, error analysis, observability, and customer feedback to improve systems
  • Create reusable reference architectures, integration patterns, evaluation harnesses, and security controls

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
  • Flexible PTO or up to 15 days of annual PTO, depending on exemption status
  • Paid company holidays, office closures, and sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Daily office meals and eligible meal-delivery credits
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may be provided