Forward Deployed Engineer (BioPharma/Lifescience)

The role

You will embed with biopharma customers to understand workflows and design AI-powered solutions. You will build production-grade capability by shipping code directly to the core platform.

What you will do

• Embed with biopharma customers to understand finance and clinical operations workflows
• Uncover and validate new use cases in the field
• Design, build, and deploy AI-driven solutions
• Turn ambiguous customer requirements into technical architecture and ship to core platform
• Build and maintain production systems including Django services, APIs, and AWS Bedrock workflows
• Build customer-facing systems end-to-end from UI to backend to data to AI
• Own deployments end-to-end from scoping through launch and iteration
• Identify patterns across deployments and codify field work back into core product
• Partner with Product and Engineering to influence roadmap and system design

Required qualifications

• Experience in a forward-deployed, founding-engineer, or similar zero-to-one customer-facing role
• 4–10 years of software engineering experience
• Experience building and owning end-to-end production systems
• Experience using LLMs and agent frameworks to build systems
• Strong proficiency in Python and Django
• Solid data modeling and SQL on PostgreSQL
• Comfort building on AWS (Bedrock, ECS/Fargate, Lambda)
• Strong communicator at ease with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to operate independently in a fast-changing, ambiguous environment

Nice to have

• Background from companies known for the FDE or zero-to-one model
• Experience with vector search and retrieval (Pinecone, pgvector)
• Experience with graph/relationship stores (Neo4j)
• Exposure to clinical operations, biopharma R&D, financial systems, or other regulated, high-correctness data domains
• Experience integrating with clinical and financial systems (ERP, CTMS, EDC, procurement, vendor feeds)
• Experience building evaluation and observability for LLM applications
• React for customer-facing UI

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity participation
• 100% company-paid health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) with a 3% company match that vests immediately
• Unlimited PTO

About the company

Condor is a high-growth Series A company building a financial intelligence layer for clinical development. The platform connects clinical operations, vendor activity, and financial signals into a single, real-time intelligence layer.