Forward Deployed Engineer, Team Lead

The role

You will embed with customers to understand workflows and design AI-powered solutions. You will build production systems and set technical standards for the FDE team.

What you will do

• Embed directly with customers to understand workflows, constraints, and success criteria
• Design, build, and deploy AI-driven solutions tailored to real operational problems
• Build and maintain production systems including APIs, integrations, monitoring, and feedback loops
• Translate business requirements and customer needs into technical architectures and implementations
• Operate in high-stakes environments where reliability, speed, and judgment matter
• Identify patterns across customer deployments and feed insights back into core product and platform development
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering to influence roadmap, abstractions, and long-term system design
• Own deployments end-to-end, from initial scoping through launch and iteration
• Set technical direction and best practices for the FDE team
• Mentor and unblock other FDEs

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in Python
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into working, production-ready systems
• Strong communication skills
• Comfort working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• High ownership mindset

Nice to have

• TypeScript / JavaScript experience
• Experience with AI systems (LLMs, vector databases, prompt engineering, or agent frameworks)

About the company

Luminai provides an integrated intelligence layer to automate manual workflows for healthcare organizations. The company has raised $60M in funding.