Job description
Forward Deployed Engineer β Stealth-mode AI Startup, Life Sciences
π SF/Bay Area or NYC preferred (open to remote, with periodic travel)
π° $140β200K base | ~$300K total comp with equity
A fast-growing, well-funded early-stage startup (~30 people, just past seed) is building fully AI-native products, including conversational voice/video products, for the pharma industry to help commercial teams engage doctors, support patients, and streamline field enablement. They're already working with several top-10 global pharma companies and are scaling their NYC presence alongside their Bay Area HQ.
They're hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit at the intersection of AI engineering, deployment, and direct client work. This is someone who can build production AI applications and be the technical face of the company with enterprise clients.
What you'd do:
Build and ship AI-powered applications using LLMs and modern AI frameworks
Design and deploy production infrastructure (cloud-agnostic, AWS preferred)
Work directly with enterprise clients to scope, customize, and implement solutions
Own a significant piece of product/deployment from day one
What they're looking for:
Experience in software engineering and building AI products/agents
Python & Typescript (AWS preferred)
Real experience building with LLMs/AI agents (side projects count)
Experience shipping something to production, on any cloud
Excellent communication skills (this is a highly client-facing role)
Startup DNA preferred (comfort with ambiguity, high ownership); big tech/consulting backgrounds welcome if youβre hungry to join a startup
Pharma/regulated industry experience is a nice-to-have, not required
Why it's interesting:
Ground-floor opportunity β you'd help shape not just the product but the culture
Regular exposure to Director/VP-level stakeholders at major pharma companies
Solving genuinely hard, novel AI problems (e.g., voice agents that need to correctly pronounce drug names)
High-ownership, high-transparency environment
