Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Life Sciences - NYC
Core
Deploy production-grade AI systems for drug discovery and development workflows within regulated life sciences organizations.
Role type
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Customer Delivery & Platform Scaling)
Builds
Production AI systems for target identification, molecular design, trial design, and clinical operations
Domain
Life Sciences (Pharma/Biotech) + Generative AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Software/ML engineering, end-to-end customer deployment, evaluation design, regulatory validation strategy, systems thinking, technical communication
Preferred skills
PhD/MS in life sciences, experience in trial design or regulatory writing, audit readiness expertise
Technologies
Generative AI frameworks, production ML infrastructure, evaluation benchmarks
Responsibilities
Design and ship production systems with integrations and on-call readiness; Lead discovery and scoping from pre-sales to post-sales; Define launch criteria for regulated contexts; Build in sensitive scientific data environments with strict access controls; Run evaluation loops against scientific benchmarks; Distill deployment learnings into reference architectures and validation templates
