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Our customers include the most innovative health systems in the country, like Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, NewYork-Presbyterian, Duke, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins. Our customer base represents 1 in 10 inpatient discharges across the United States and more than $180B+ in net patient revenue.\nOur products help health systems comprehensively capture and communicate the full patient clinical journey. By empowering health systems to streamline their operations, they can focus on what matters most - delivering quality patient care.\nWe train internal models and build domain-specific harnesses to power our products and best capture clinical nuance for each customer. We hire people with high agency and good judgment. Everyone here is an owner and builder who is looking to help solve high stakes challenges every day.\nWe have raised over $250M in funding from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, BOND, and Coatue. Our deployments have been recognized nationally as \"one of the most comprehensive real-world uses of GenAI in healthcare finance to date\" (link). \nSome of our recent recognitions include being named one of America's Top Startup Employers 2026 by Forbes, a Top Healthcare Technology Company of 2026 by Healthcare Technology Report, the #1 most promising healthcare RCM startup of 2025 by Black Book Market Research, and we have been certified as a “Great Place to Work” for the past 6 years in a row.\nAbout the Role\nAs a Forward Deployed Engineer, you’ll deliver client deployments that empower healthcare revenue cycle teams to work faster, more accurately, and with greater insight. You will work on the lifecycle and deployment of the ML models that power our products.\nYou’ll work closely with client engagement, product, and R&D teams to ensure smooth deployments, ongoing production stability and expansion of our deployment platform.\nWhat You'll Do\nExecute implementation tasks for new deployments - from requirements analysis to configuration, testing, rollout, and support of production health.\n\nWork with client engagement teams to guide customers through technical onboarding, integration setup, troubleshooting, and data acquisition\n\nBuild and own evaluation frameworks to continuously measure and improve LLM performance across customer deployments\n\nContribute feedback and insights that shape product and platform improvements\n\nWork closely with R&D engineering teams to build robust scalable client solutions\n\nSkills & Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar\n\n3+ years of professional Python experience\n\nExperience designing and running LLM evals (offline and online) to measure model quality and performance.\n\nComfortable working with relational databases, APIs, and ETL pipelines\n\nStrong communication and interpersonal skills with meticulous attention to detail\n\nNice to haves\nFamiliarity with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Postgres.\n\nProficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, AWS.\n\nCI/CD experience with GitHub Actions.\n\nExperience with healthcare data exchange (FHIR, HL7, EDI)\n\nFrontend experience (React)\n\nWhat We Offer\nFlexible paid time off (PTO)\n\nExpansive coverage for health, dental, and vision\n\nEmployer contribution to Health Savings Accounts (HSA)\n\nGenerous parental leave policy\n\nFull employee coverage for life insurance\n\nHome office stipend\n\nCell phone/internet reimbursement\n\nCompany-paid holidays\n\n401(K) plan\n\nCompensation\nBased on market data and other factors, the salary range for this position is $150,000-$170,000 + Equity. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.\n\nThe above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors\nWe’re committed to doing the best work of our lives, together. Come see if we're the right team for you.\nAKASA is a proud equal opportunity employer and we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is an imperative. We welcome people of different backgrounds, genders, races, ethnicities, abilities, sexual orientations, and perspectives, just to name a few. We do not discriminate based upon any protected class and we encourage candidates of all identities and backgrounds to apply. AKASA considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.\nAKASA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. 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