Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking exceptional Senior Forward Deployed Engineers to work at the intersection of AI, software systems, and biology. In this role, you will partner directly with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to solve high-impact problems by designing, building, and deploying production-grade solutions on top of our agentic AI platform, Owkin K. This is a deeply hands-on engineering role: you will write code, build integrations, design system architectures, and rapidly prototype new capabilities that bring advanced AI into real scientific workflows. A significant portion of this work will be conducted at the customer’s premises. You will collaborate with internal domain experts to design and deliver together on the client expectations. You will also help shape the roadmap of our product by distilling insights from the field back into the platform

.This is an opportunity to set the standard for how the team operates, and contribute to the growth of more junior engineers. in a dynamic environment, all while learning from experienced team members with diverse, interdisciplinary backgrounds, and contributing to turning frontier research work into reliable, deployable solutions

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You will operate across three core dimension

• s:Build real systems: Design, implement, and deploy production-grade AI systems on top of Owkin K. You will write code, build integrations, design data pipelines and APIs, and turn ambiguous problems into reliable software used in critical scientific and operational workflow
• s.Solve problems with users: Work directly with engineers, data scientists, biologists and clinicians from our customers: leading pharma and biotech companies, as well as within Owkin. You will translate ambiguous scientific and operational challenges into concrete software solutions, rapidly prototyping, iterating with users, and delivering results that have measurable impac

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Core responsibilit

• iesEmbed deeply with external customers to solve high-leverage problems by customizing and extending Owkin’s agentic platform
• K;Design, build, and deploy tailored solutions on top of Owkin K, guiding them from conception through final delive
• ry;Drive rapid prototyping and iteration to validate solutions early and frequent
• ly;Balance scope, speed, and quality, adapting plans to ensure successful delive
• ry;Act as a technical cornerstone for the team, championing best practices, setting high engineering standards, helping others grow and mentor more junior FD
• Es;Communicate clearly across technical and non-technical stakeholders to align expectatio
• ns;Collaborate with Customer Success Managers, Domain Experts, Product and Engineering teams to guarantee effective delivery, client satisfaction, and sustained adoption of Owkin’s produ
• ct;Turn proven patterns into reusable, scalable components, tools, and playboo
• ks;Bridge the gap between field realities and product strategy - bringing structured, actionable insight feedback that drives roadmap direct

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Sk

illsAbove all, we seek curious individuals who are driven to learn through hands-on experience and who embrace a strong bias for action. In addition to this, the following skills are requi

• red:Strong engineering background: 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a focus on backend sys
• temsFluent in Python and modern engineering tools and coding co-pilots: write clean, production-grade code, drive architectural decisions, lead technical design discuss

ion.Candidates not meeting all criteria, but who can demonstrate exceptional skill in key areas, are invited to ap

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Bonus skills/experi

• ence:Proven experience building and deploying on cloud plat
• formsUnderstanding of the drug development pipeline and related scientific workf
• lows.Full stack exper
• ienceFamiliarity with biostatistics, computational biology, or medical im