Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Life Sciences(m/w/x)

Description

You will bridge the gap between complex life sciences workflows and production-ready AI, leading end-to-end deployments that transform how the company's partners discover and develop new drugs.

Requirements

• •5+ years of software/ML engineering or technical deployment experience
• •Customer-facing ownership in biotech, pharma, clinical research, or scientific software
• •PhD, MS, or equivalent applied experience in life sciences
• •Ownership of customer GenAI deployments from scoping through production
• •Experience in evaluation design, error analysis, and iterative evidence generation
• •Delivery of AI systems in trial design, regulatory writing, or scientific operations
• •Knowledge of validation strategy, auditability, compliance, and reviewer expectations
• •Clear communication across scientific, clinical, technical, and executive audiences
• •Ability to translate technical tradeoffs into decision quality and risk posture
• •Systems thinking with high execution standards
• •Ability to turn failures and audit findings into improved operating standards
• •Willingness to travel up to 50%

Tasks

• •Lead end-to-end model deployments within life sciences organizations
• •Design and ship production systems around models
• •Manage integrations, data provenance, and system reliability
• •Translate ambiguous workflow needs into technical requirements
• •Define and enforce launch criteria for regulated contexts
• •Build architectures for sensitive scientific data environments
• •Run evaluation loops against scientific benchmarks
• •Drive model and product changes based on results
• •Develop hardened primitives and reference architectures for scaling

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