Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Operate - VI

Role: Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Operate - VI
HRforGrowth® is engaged as the talent acquisition partner to conduct this search on behalf of a client organization that is hiring for this role. HRforGrowth is not the employer for this position. HRforGrowth identifies, evaluates, and presents top-tier candidates through its global talent acquisition practice; all employment decisions — including final selection, offer terms, compensation, and conditions of employment — are made solely by the hiring organization.

Our Client is seeking a highly experienced and entrepreneurial Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to own the full technical delivery of AI agent deployments for some of the largest health systems, providers, and pharmaceutical organizations in the United States. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who combines strong software engineering and architecture expertise with exceptional client-facing communication and executive presence.

The successful candidate will work across the full engagement lifecycle — from pre-sales demonstrations and requirements gathering through architecture, integration, implementation, deployment, and post-launch support. The ideal candidate will be comfortable operating independently, making architectural decisions, presenting to senior healthcare executives, and building production software end-to-end in complex healthcare environments.

Location: Remote
Job Type: Full-Time
Compensation: $170,000 – $205,000 base salary (OTE: $190,000 – $240,000)
Equity: Competitive equity
Visa Sponsorship: Not available; U.S. Citizens and Green Card Holders only
 

Key Responsibilities

• Own enterprise client engagements end-to-end, from pre-sales demonstrations and requirements gathering through solution design, integration, implementation, deployment, and post-launch support.
• Architect and build production-grade AI agent systems that integrate with complex healthcare technologies and workflows, including EHR/EMR, claims, specialty pharmacy, and CRM systems.
• Design secure and scalable systems that operate within regulated healthcare environments and comply with HIPAA and applicable security requirements.
• Lead technical working sessions with clients and present architecture, implementation strategies, and technical solutions to executive stakeholders at major healthcare organizations and health insurance companies.
• Serve as a trusted technical partner to client stakeholders, translating complex technical concepts into clear business and operational outcomes.
• Make independent architectural and design decisions, often operating as the primary or only engineer involved in a client engagement.
• Select appropriate technologies, scope integrations, define technical approaches, and solve complex engineering challenges in real time.
• Build and deploy customer-facing software systems from concept through production, including integrations, infrastructure, testing, deployment, and ongoing improvements.
• Develop and maintain complete end-to-end system architectures and architecture diagrams for complex technical solutions.
• Work with data and machine learning pipelines involving ETL/ELT, unstructured data, document ingestion, predictive models, and related data-processing workflows.
• Feed learnings and insights from client deployments back into the core product platform.
• Collaborate with internal product and engineering teams to build reusable components, patterns, and capabilities that can support future deployments.
• Contribute directly to product strategy and roadmap decisions based on real-world customer requirements and deployment experience.
• Take full ownership and accountability for technical delivery across complex, high-value client engagements.
• Operate effectively in an entrepreneurial environment where priorities evolve quickly and engineers are expected to take initiative and wear multiple hats.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5 to15 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven experience building and owning complex production systems end-to-end, beyond demos, proofs of concept, or prototypes.
• Demonstrated ability to design complete system architectures and produce detailed architecture diagrams.
• Experience owning full technical delivery for clients, including pre-sales, requirements gathering, scoping, solution design, implementation, integration, and post-sale support.
• Proven experience building and deploying customer-facing software systems in production through software engineering, solutions engineering, solutions architecture, or technical consulting roles.
• Strong client-facing communication skills and professional presence, with the ability to run technical sessions and present solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working directly with senior and executive-level stakeholders.
• Healthcare or life sciences domain expertise strongly preferred, particularly in areas such as:
• Patient services
• Specialty pharmacy
• Pharmacovigilance
• Clinical operations
• Health insurance
• Healthcare compliance / HIPAA
• Strong proficiency with modern programming languages and frameworks, including Python, JavaScript/Node.js, TypeScript, Next.js, and React.
• Experience shipping production applications and managing cloud infrastructure using platforms such as AWS or GCP.
• Experience building data and machine learning pipelines, including PySpark, ETL/ELT, unstructured data processing, document ingestion, and predictive models.
• Strong understanding of production software engineering practices, cloud infrastructure, integrations, deployment, and system reliability.
• Entrepreneurial, highly accountable mindset with the ability to independently make technical decisions and drive engagements forward.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment where engineers may be responsible for multiple aspects of a client engagement.
• U.S. Citizen or Green Card Holder required

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a founding engineer, startup co-founder, startup CTO, or software engineer at a high-growth startup.
• Experience with formal machine learning or internal data science initiatives involving healthcare-related projects.
• Experience building LLM-powered systems or AI agents, including prompt engineering, function calling, structured outputs, guardrails, and observability.
• Experience working with modern AI/ML infrastructure and orchestration technologies.
• Experience working in entrepreneurial environments where engineers have significant ownership over product and technical decisions.

Technical Skills / Tech Stack

• JavaScript
• Node.js
• TypeScript
• Python
• Next.js
• React
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• WebSockets
• ETL / ELT
• AWS
• GCP
• Docker
• CI/CD
• LLM Orchestration
• Vector Stores
• Claude Code
• Gemini

Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a senior, hands-on engineer who combines deep technical expertise with strong client-facing and executive communication skills. This person should be comfortable designing systems from the ground up, building production software, navigating complex healthcare environments, and taking full ownership of enterprise technical engagements.
Candidates should demonstrate a track record of end-to-end system ownership, customer-facing technical delivery, and production engineering rather than experience limited primarily to consulting, demonstrations, or prototypes.

About HRforGrowth:
HRforGrowth is a full-service HR and talent partner built to support companies that are scaling, transforming, or navigating change. HRFG is globally recognized for delivering quality, speed, and cost-effective talent solutions across every level of the workforce. Through its global talent acquisition practice, HRforGrowth applies world class rigor and precision to identifying exceptional professional and executive talent on behalf of its clients — from temporary staffing to permanent hourly workers through to placing C-suite executives. HRforGrowth is presenting this opportunity in its capacity as the retained search partner and does not serve as the employer of record for this position.

Equal Employment Opportunity:
In its recruiting and search practices, HRforGrowth does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity, and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals. HRforGrowth evaluates and presents candidates to its clients without regard to any protected characteristic.
HRforGrowth endeavors to advise the hiring organization to comply with all applicable federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws — including those enforced by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) — in its hiring decisions, terms of employment, and workplace practices.