Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (USA)

The role

You will be deployed inside practices, clinics, and hospitals to build integrations and product features. You will work directly with customers to understand workflows and turn them into working software.

What you will do

• Deploy and set up Optexity inside practices and clinics
• Sit with doctors and staff to understand workflows and requirements
• Build and improve data pipelines and integrations with EMRs and other clinical systems
• Work with the core team on search and chat system
• Debug and resolve customer issues
• Help drive customer success through onboarding, training, and increasing usage
• Make general solutions from one-off customer problems
• Share learnings with founders to shape product direction

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s in computer science or a related field
• Strong in Python
• Comfortable with backend work, data and APIs
• Comfortable working directly with customers, including non-technical ones
• Energized by open-ended problems and takes ownership without needing to be guided
• Genuinely wants a startup over big tech

Nice to have

• Prior founder, founding engineer or solutions engineering experience
• Experience with browser or desktop automation, or reverse engineering systems with no APIs
• Built LLM-powered products before
• Familiarity with healthcare data, EMRs, or HIPAA
• Strong product taste
• Ambitions to start your own company someday
• Preferred to be based in SF

Benefits

• Direct, daily work with the founders
• Exposure to board and investor conversations
• Real ownership of technical direction
• Full compute and data to do the work properly

About the company

Optexity is a product-driven research lab building clinical reasoning and computer use models. They deploy directly inside clinics and hospitals to obtain proprietary clinical reasoning trajectories.