Associate Director, Forward Deployed GenAI

About the Role

As a Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer at Trinity Life Sciences, you are embedded directly inside biopharma and commercial Life Sciences teams: absorbing their hardest problems, then building working solutions fast. You'll move from ambiguous business challenge to running prototype in days, not quarters. You'll demo it, iterate live with clients, and make it better. You'll write real code, own real deployments, and be accountable for real outcomes.

You will also mentor and coach a group of 3–4 engineers, helping them ramp up faster, navigate client complexity, and grow into the role. You lead by doing and make the people around you sharper.

Responsibilities

• Technical delivery:
  • Embed with clients at top biopharma and life sciences organizations to surface unmet needs and translate them into engineered solutions
  • Prototype at speed: stand up GenAI-powered applications, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and data integrations within two weeks
  • Own delivery end-to-end: from whiteboard session through production-ready code, demo, feedback loop, and handoff
  • Flex between missions: move between active client engagements and product sprints as priorities shift
  • Document patterns, share playbooks, and push field learnings back into the product, including reusable components
• Team Development:
  • Mentor and coach a group of 3–4 junior FDEs: pairing on hard problems, reviewing their work, and giving direct, useful feedback
  • Help new FDEs ramp up through the onboarding path: accelerate their time to product fluency and first live pod contribution
  • Serve as a technical sounding board when junior FDEs are stuck, guiding them to solutions
  • Model the culture: demonstrate great client engagement, clean iteration, and knowledge-sharing

Requirements

• 8–12 years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping production-quality systems
• Demonstrated experience mentoring or leading small engineering teams, formal or informal
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or Node.js/React.js; fluency with cloud services (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Hands-on experience building or integrating GenAI systems: LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, agentic architectures, or multi-modal pipelines
• Real comfort operating in client-facing environments: presenting to non-technical stakeholders and navigating feedback
• Experience in Life Sciences or Biotech strongly preferred
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

Qualifications

• Thrive on pace: compressed timelines energize rather than exhaust you
• Understand before you build: invest time to genuinely absorb client needs before writing code
• Iterate freely: treat client feedback as signal, not criticism
• Collaborative by default: pull in teammates, ask for help early, and share credit
• Learn fast in unfamiliar domains: have cracked new industries, stacks, or problem spaces quickly before
• Make others better: have coached or mentored engineers with patience, directness, and generosity

What Makes This Role Unique

• Direct input on how the team, its culture, and its practices take shape as a senior FDE in the incoming cohort
• Work in pods with a Solution Lead and domain SME—never alone on a client
• Intentional onboarding: product fluency first, then shadowing, then leading
• Direct feedback loop to products: the best field-built solutions become product features

About Trinity

Trinity powers the future of life sciences commercialization through the fusion of human and artificial intelligence. By blending deep therapeutic expertise and trusted human ingenuity with a purpose-built technology platform, Trinity accelerates clarity and confidence at every step of the commercialization journey—from pre-launch to scale to loss of exclusivity.

For more than 30 years, the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotech, and medtech companies have relied on Trinity’s foresight, execution, and partnership to deliver confident product launches, decisive market advantage, and measurable patient impact. Trinity has grown to 1,300 professionals across 14 offices and five continents, setting new industry standards in quality, responsiveness, and client partnership.

Pay

A reasonable estimate of the current salary range is $192,000 - $288,000. In addition to your base salary, you will also be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus.