Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - SF

requirements. Define and operationalize evaluations, validation evidence, human-review workflows, escalation paths, and launch criteria that measure model and system quality against customer-specific acceptance thresholds. Use evaluation results, error analysis, observability, and customer feedback to improve system reliability, performance, model selection, workflow impact, and production readiness. Distill deployment learnings into reference architectures, interoperability and integration patterns, evaluation harnesses, security controls, and reusable technical primitives for healthcare and other regulated enterprise environments. You might thrive in this role if you: Bring 6+ years of software engineering, ML/AI engineering, solutions engineering, technical consulting, or comparable experience, with the technical depth Have operated as a senior engineer, tech lead, or deployment owner who is trusted to make technical decisions in ambiguous environments. Are deeply hands-on and have personally owned technical discovery, architecture, implementation, evaluation, productionization, and handoff for complex customer-facing or enterprise systems. Have healthcare experience including payer workflows, provider operations, EHR systems, or interoperability standards such as Epic, HL7, and FHIR. Have exposure to provider or health-system workflows such as clinical operations, revenue cycle management, patient access, or contact centers; or to EHR and interoperability technologies such as Epic, Oracle Health/Cerner, MEDITECH, HL7, FHIR, or health information exchanges. Have shipped complex systems as a forward deployed or customer engineer, an engineer inside a payer, provider, or health system, a builder at an EHR, interoperability, revenue cycle, payer-tech, or healthcare infrastructure company, a hands-on technical consultant or integrator, a solutions architect for regulated enterprises, or a technical founder or early engineering leader. Apply strong judgment to AI evaluation, privacy, security, governance, and reliability. Prior FDE titles, clinical credentials, and experience across every healthcare domain are not required. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence

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