Forward Deployed Engineer

Technovatime
Technovatime

Software Engineering

San Francisco, CA, USA · Washington, DC, USA · New York, NY, USA · Remote

Posted on Aug 28, 2026
Forward Deployed Engineers work directly with customers to rapidly understand their hardest problems and build solutions against them. Projects often start with an open-ended question: how do we take a high-stakes healthcare workflow that still depends on a specific human and turn it into a reliable production system? Your job is to show up and solve it. This role sits at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. You will own discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout alongside our most strategic customers — often looking a lot like a startup CTO inside the engagement: whiteboarding architecture, shipping integrations and workflows, debugging live systems, advising operators and executives, and driving strategy with the team, sometimes all in the same day. Success is measured by production adoption, measurable workflow impact, and field feedback that sharpens our product and agent behavior. You embed closely with customer teams, contribute directly in the code when progress depends on it, make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality, and codify what works into playbooks and building blocks the rest of the company can reuse. Healthcare privacy, reliability, and operational consequence are not afterthoughts; they are part of the engineering job. Good fit if: You thrive in ambiguous, high-stakes environments and can turn messy operational reality into shipped systems; You write production-grade code across the stack and are comfortable owning delivery from first prototype to stable production; You communicate clearly with engineers, operators, and non-technical stakeholders — and can be a trusted technical partner on-site or remote; You want your customer work to feed back into product, infrastructure, and AI behavior, not disappear into one-off consulting.