Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

We are seeking exceptional Junior 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and deploy production-grade AI systems on top of Owkin K with senior engineers.
• Write code, build integrations, design data pipelines and APIs, and turn ambiguous problems into reliable software used in critical scientific and operational workflows.
• Work directly with engineers, data scientists, biologists and clinicians from our customers: leading pharma and biotech companies, as well as within Owkin.
• Rapidly prototype, iterate with users, and deliver results that have measurable impact.
• Integrate solutions into large, complex, and regulated organizations.
• Support customer engagements alongside more senior team members, progressively taking on more ownership 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 delivery.
• Contribute to rapid prototyping and iteration to validate solutions early and frequently.
• Balance scope, speed, and quality, adapting plans to ensure successful delivery.
• Communicate clearly across technical and non-technical stakeholders to align expectations.
• Collaborate with Customer Success Managers, Domain Experts, Product and Engineering teams to guarantee effective delivery, client satisfaction, and sustained adoption of Owkin’s product.
• Turn proven patterns into reusable, scalable components, tools, and playbooks.
• Share feedback from the field to help shape the roadmap.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a focus on backend systems.
• Fluent in Python and modern engineering tools and coding co-pilots.
• Experience working with LLMs and agentic AI frameworks.
• Ability to simplify complexity and make fast, sound decisions under time pressure.
• Communicate effectively across diverse audiences: technical teams, product managers and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Thrive in fast-evolving environments by staying flexible, embracing ambiguity, and proactively driving progress despite incomplete information.

Skills

• Proven experience building and deploying on cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with biostatistics, computational biology, or medical imaging.