Forward Deployed Engineer, Healthcare

Protege is building a platform to address the need for efficient AI training data exchange, backed by top investors. The Forward Deployed Engineer will take ownership of customer engagements in healthcare, managing relationships, technical delivery, and ensuring successful implementations.

Responsibilities:

• Own healthcare customer engagements end-to-end
• Lead customer-facing technical work from initial scoping through implementation, delivery, and post-delivery support
• Become the primary technical partner for assigned healthcare customers
• Build trusted relationships with customer engineering and technical teams
• Manage multiple concurrent healthcare engagements while maintaining delivery quality and customer confidence
• Build custom solutions for complex customer needs
• Develop and deploy integrations, data transformations, and applications that solve customer-specific challenges
• Navigate customer technical environments and adapt Protege’s platform capabilities to real-world deployment constraints
• Translate ambiguous customer needs into clear technical plans, delivery milestones, and practical implementation paths
• Bridge customer needs with product and platform capabilities
• Identify where customer-specific work points to repeatable product opportunities
• Surface actionable product feedback based on implementation patterns, customer pain points, and delivery blockers
• Partner with product and engineering to turn bespoke solutions into reusable platform capabilities where appropriate
• Operate with strong healthcare data judgment
• Handle healthcare data environments with appropriate care, including PHI and regulatory considerations
• Make sound technical decisions in complex, regulated settings
• Communicate clearly with customers and internal teams about tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and implementation choices
• Create reusable delivery leverage
• Contribute playbooks, tooling, templates, and best practices that improve future healthcare deal execution
• Document repeatable patterns and lessons from customer engagements
• Help Protege move faster over time by turning one-off implementation work into reusable delivery assets

Requirements:

• Experience in software engineering, solution architecture, forward deployed engineering, technical implementation, or a similar customer-facing technical role
• Ability to own customer engagements from scoping through delivery and support
• Strong technical execution across custom solutions, integrations, data transformations, and/or applications
• Comfort operating in healthcare data environments, including sensitivity to PHI and regulatory considerations
• Strong customer-facing communication and ability to build trust with technical stakeholders
• Ability to bridge customer needs with product and platform capabilities
• High ownership, adaptability, and comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Bias toward creating reusable systems, playbooks, tooling, and best practices rather than solving the same problem repeatedly