Forward Deployed Engineer, Healthcare

The role

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Healthcare will own customer-facing technical engagements from scoping through post-engagement support. This person will build custom solutions, navigate healthcare data environments, and translate customer needs into technical execution.

What you will do

• Lead technical work from initial scoping through implementation, data ingestion, and continued refreshes.
• Become the primary technical partner for assigned healthcare data partners.
• Build trusted relationships with customer engineering and technical teams.
• Manage multiple concurrent healthcare engagements.
• Develop and deploy integrations, data transformations, and applications.
• Navigate customer technical environments and adapt platform capabilities.
• Translate ambiguous customer needs into technical plans and implementation paths.
• Identify repeatable product opportunities from customer-specific work.
• Surface actionable product feedback to product and engineering teams.
• Handle healthcare data environments including PHI and regulatory considerations.

Required qualifications

• Experience in software engineering, solution architecture, forward deployed engineering, technical implementation, or a similar customer-facing technical role.
• Ability to own customer engagements from scoping to repeated support.
• Strong technical execution across custom solutions, integrations, data transformations, and/or applications.
• Comfort operating in healthcare data environments, including sensitivity to PHI and regulatory considerations.
• Strong customer-facing communication and ability to build trust with technical stakeholders.
• Ability to bridge customer needs with product and platform capabilities.
• High ownership, adaptability, and comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Bias toward creating reusable systems, playbooks, tooling, and best practices.

About the company

Protege is building a platform to facilitate the secure, efficient, and privacy-centric exchange of AI training data. The company is a lean, fast-moving team of builders.