OpenAI
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - Seattle
$185K–$300K
Seattle · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 6, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years; comparable experience is accepted across the listed disciplines.
About the job
Own end-to-end deployment of production AI systems for healthcare organizations, from discovery and implementation through evaluation, launch, adoption, and handoff.
What you'll do
- Translate healthcare workflows and constraints into technical requirements, architectures, and measurable outcomes.
- Build and integrate production AI applications and agentic systems with customer infrastructure, while addressing privacy, security, and regulatory safeguards.
- Define evaluations and launch criteria; use evaluation results and customer feedback to improve reliability and production readiness.
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 and work with customers in ambiguous environments.
Nice to have
- Healthcare experience, such as payer workflows, provider operations, EHR systems, or interoperability standards.
- Experience with Epic, Oracle Health/Cerner, MEDITECH, HL7, FHIR, or health information exchanges.
Pay
$185K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
Epic, Oracle Health/Cerner, MEDITECH, HL7, FHIR
AI focus
Design, deploy, evaluate, and improve production AI applications and agentic systems for healthcare workflows, with safeguards and customer-specific quality benchmarks.
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