Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Life Sciences - NYC
OpenAI
about 1 month ago
New York, NY, USA
Senior
Base Salary
$198k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and ship production systems around AI models, ensuring reliability and data provenance.
- Lead discovery and scoping from pre-sales through post-sales, translating workflow needs into actionable plans.
- Define and enforce launch criteria for regulated contexts, including validation evidence and outcome metrics.
- Build systems in sensitive scientific data environments with a focus on auditability and access controls.
- Run evaluation loops to measure model quality against scientific benchmarks and drive improvements.
- Distill deployment learnings into scalable templates and architectures for regulated environments.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software/ML engineering or technical deployment experience in biotech, pharma, or clinical research.
- Experience owning customer GenAI deployments from scoping to production adoption.
- Familiarity with AI systems in trial design and regulatory writing, focusing on validation and compliance.
- Strong communication skills across scientific, technical, and executive audiences.
- Ability to apply systems thinking and improve operating standards based on failures and audit findings.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with 3 days in the office per week.
- Relocation assistance offered.
- Travel up to 50% required.
Categories
AI & MLBackendData Science