Forward Deployed Engineer, Life Sciences

About the role

The Customer Engineering Solutions Team at Domino is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to join our team. This role is ideal for a sharp, action-first engineer with deep technical roots and a strong customer empathy.

Responsibilities

• Master Domino platform mechanics and learn core user/admin functionalities during the first three months.
• Closely shadow the customer's environment, pairing with a senior FDE to learn the client's unique data, tooling stack, and commercial objectives.
• Step into full customer ownership across engagements by month six, executing independently against a prioritized backlog managed by your partner Engagement Manager (EM).
• Build and deploy production-grade solutions across the entire MLOps lifecycle (development, deployment, and monitoring).
• Advise data science teams on Domino best practices.
• Lead and advise on key accounts, serving as a trusted advisor to technical and business stakeholders.
• Author reusable playbooks, integration templates, and deployment guides for our shared knowledge base.
• Translate field intelligence into critical product feedback, routing platform signals to our SRE, Support, and Product teams to shape Domino’s roadmap.

Requirements

• Strong engineering roots with deep proficiency in Python (primary), alongside familiarity with SQL, R, and Bash.
• Experience with Kubernetes and managed K8s solutions (such as EKS, AKS, or GKE), Docker, and cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• A proven track record of delivering machine learning workflows, model deployment/monitoring, GPU workloads, and generative AI or agent frameworks.
• Experience operating within, or consulting for, highly regulated or constrained environments.
• Exceptional communication skills across both technical and business audiences.
• An "act fast, own it" mentality, comfortable making yourself productive inside an unfamiliar codebase quickly.

Qualifications

• Diverse background, gender, ethnicity, ability, and sexual orientation encouraged to apply.
• Growth mindset, creative individuals who dig into problems and see the opportunities for success.
• Belief in improving is always possible, a culture of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.