OpenAI
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - NYC
$185K–$300K
New York City · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 6, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years; software engineering, ML/AI engineering, solutions engineering, technical consulting, or comparable experience.
About the job
Own end-to-end deployment of production AI systems for healthcare organizations, translating workflows and regulatory constraints into integrated, evaluated solutions.
What you'll do
- Lead customer discovery, architecture, implementation, evaluation, production deployment, adoption, and handoff.
- Build AI applications and agentic systems integrated with healthcare infrastructure, APIs, data platforms, EHRs, and operational tools.
- Establish safeguards, evaluation processes, and launch criteria; use results and customer feedback to improve reliability and workflow impact.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of software engineering, ML/AI engineering, solutions engineering, technical consulting, or comparable experience.
- Hands-on ownership of technical discovery, architecture, implementation, evaluation, productionization, and handoff for complex customer-facing or enterprise systems.
- Ability to make technical decisions as a senior engineer, tech lead, or deployment owner in ambiguous environments.
- Strong judgment in AI evaluation, privacy, security, governance, and reliability.
Nice to have
- Healthcare experience with payer workflows, provider operations, EHR systems, or interoperability standards.
- Experience shipping complex systems in forward-deployed engineering, healthcare organizations or companies, consulting, integration, regulated enterprise architecture, or technical founding roles.
Pay
$185K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
Epic, Oracle Health/Cerner, MEDITECH, HL7, FHIR
AI focus
Deploy and evaluate production AI applications and agentic systems in healthcare workflows, including customer-specific benchmarks, safeguards, human review, and reliability improvements.
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