Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) Health
We Are:
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You Are:
An AI Native Engineer that brings deep technical and domain expertise to AI programs at provider organizations - designing solutions that work inside the realities of the electronic medical record and clinical workflows, extending to the administrative side of care where AI can ease the burden of documentation, prior authorization, coding, and revenue cycle. You'll help providers put AI to work across both the clinical and operational realities of their environment and help define the future of healthcare interoperability.
The Work:
Embed with provider teams. Work forward-deployed inside health systems, hospitals, and physician groups - alongside clinical informatics, physicians and nurses, and revenue-cycle and operations leaders - redesigning processes around AI and co-creating solutions using AI tooling to move quickly from idea to working solution.
Scope the program. Define the problem, the intended outcome, and what good looks like - and identify where AI can automate or augment clinical and administrative work.
Set the technical architecture. Lead the technical architecture of AI programs in provider environments and articulate it clearly, on paper and in diagrams, for engineers and clinical leaders alike.
Design for trust. Make sure the solutions you shape are safe, compliant, and clinically sound - building the human oversight, transparency and PHI safeguards that AI in care settings demands.
Reimagine the ways of working. Reimagine the future way of working for clinical and operational teams, rather than simply automating today's processes.
Shape interoperability. Help define the future of healthcare interoperability - how the broader ecosystem can connect to the health record in a deep, meaningful way.
Turn engagements into reusable approaches. Distill what works across providers into repeatable methods and accelerators, so each program starts further ahead than the last.
Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.
What you need:
3+ years of hands-on engineering experience with cloud-native systems - APIs, microservices, containerization, and serverless - including working with AI platforms (Claude, OpenAI, Vertex AI, or open-source models) and at least 1 year designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production
Minimum 1 year of experience delivering AI or technology programs inside payer organizations.
Minimum 1 year hands-on experience using Claude or an equivalent frontier AI tool to do the work.
3+ years of experience hands-on coding in at least one general-purpose language (e.g., Python, Java) and the ability to pick up others as engagements demand
3+ years of experience with hands-on production deployment experience - CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging - with demonstrated end-to-end delivery ownership in a client-embedded environment
Bachelor's degree (or equivalent minimum 12 years work experience, or minimum 6 years' work experience with Associate's degree) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
Professional Skills Requirements:
Deep understanding of how core administrative and claims platforms work and how claims and member data are structured, with direct QNXT, Facets, HealthEdge, or comparable experience
Fluency with data - non-trivial SQL, relational modeling, and reasoning about data quality and data lineage
Working knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards and EDI mechanisms: X12 transaction flows (837, 835, 270/271, 276/277, 278, 834), FHIR APIs, and the broader exchange landscape
Deep understanding of payer workflows - how coverage and payment actually work across eligibility and enrollment, claims adjudication, prior authorization and utilization management, provider network and reimbursement, appeals and grievances, and risk and quality programs - including a real sense of where administrative burden and cost accumulate and where AI can meaningfully relieve it, and how the regulatory environment (HIPAA and CMS requirements) shapes what solutions can look like
AI solution architecture and AI program scoping, with strong written and presentation skills
Comfortable working forward-deployed, embedded directly with health plans in a fast-iterating model
High tolerance for ambiguity and the patience to make things work inside slow-moving, high-stakes IT environments
Technical fundamentals:
The technology fundamentals expected of any capable full-stack engineer building AI solutions in a healthcare environment:
How the web works end to end: HTTP/HTTPS, the request/response lifecycle, REST APIs, and JSON.
API design and integration: authentication, pagination, rate limits, retries, versioning, and event-driven patterns (webhooks, batch file feeds); comfortable reading and building against unfamiliar API documentation, including FHIR and payer platform and clearinghouse APIs.
Data fundamentals: relational and NoSQL databases, data modeling, and SQL - applied to the messy, real-world claims, eligibility, and clinical data these programs run on.
Working with frontier AI: the fundamentals of building with large language models - prompting, grounding responses in real data (retrieval / RAG), structured outputs and tool use, and evaluating quality while designing around non-determinism and the need for human oversight.
Security and handling PHI: authentication vs. authorization, token-based auth (OAuth / JWT), validating all input (never trust the client), and the essentials of protecting sensitive health data - encryption in transit and at rest, least-privilege access, and audit logging.
A practical feel for system tradeoffs: caching, queues and background jobs, idempotency, and when work should run in-request versus asynchronously.
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