Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - Seattle

Overview

Forward Deployed Engineer to own end-to-end deployments of production AI models within healthcare organizations in Seattle (hybrid).

What you'll do

• Own technical solutions end to end, from customer discovery and workflow scoping through handoff.
• Partner with customer engineers and operators to frame ambiguous problems and define measurable outcomes.
• Design and implement production AI applications and agentic systems integrating with customer infrastructure and APIs.
• Build safeguarded systems for protected health information (PHI) and regulated delivery requirements.
• Define and operationalize evaluations, validation evidence, human-review workflows, escalation paths, and launch criteria.
• Improve reliability, performance, model selection, workflow impact, and readiness using evaluation results and observability.
• Distill learnings into reference architectures, integration patterns, evaluation harnesses, and reusable primitives.

What you'll need

• 6+ years of software engineering, ML/AI engineering, solutions engineering, technical consulting, or comparable experience.
• Experience operating as a senior engineer/tech lead/deployment owner trusted to make technical decisions in ambiguous environments.
• Hands-on experience owning discovery, architecture, implementation, evaluation, productionization, and handoff for complex systems.
• Healthcare experience including payer workflows, provider operations, EHR systems, or interoperability standards (Epic, HL7, FHIR).
• Exposure to provider/health-system workflows such as clinical operations, revenue cycle management, patient access, or contact centers.
• Experience with regulated AI topics including AI evaluation, privacy, security, governance, and reliability.

Details

• Based in Seattle.
• Hybrid work model: 3 days in the office per week.
• Travel up to 50% required.