Forward Deployed Engineer
San Mateo, CA · HybridFull-time$150–220K/yrPosted 9mo agoStill listed today
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Job overview
Luminai builds AI systems that automate healthcare operations and manual workflows. The Forward Deployed Engineer works across engineering, product, and customer delivery, embedding with customers to understand their workflows and deploy AI-powered solutions. The role owns deployments from scoping through iteration, builds production systems, and shares field insights with Product and Engineering to shape scalable systems and product direction.
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About Luminai
Healthcare operations have always depended on people to bridge the gaps that technology couldn't. It relies on complex manual work to carry out critical internal processes, yet most health systems don’t have enough resources to properly automate these tasks, leaving them stuck in outdated, labor-intensive SOPs.
Luminai structures the chaos, automates the manual handoffs, and deploys end-to-end workflows across every system, providing the integrated intelligence layer to improve processes over time. By delegating to autonomous AI systems those mission-critical workflows that previously expended valuable human time, Luminai allows doctors and administrators to do what they do best: Focus on Patients.
We've raised $60M in funding, including our recent Series B led by Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia India), with participation from healthcare-focused Define Ventures and continued support from General Catalyst and Y Combinator. We're backed by some of the best investors in Silicon Valley, including Kevin Weil (Chief Product Officer at OpenAI), Arash Ferdowsi (co-founder of Dropbox), Katie Stanton (former VP Global Media, Twitter), and CEOs of companies such as Flexport, Notion, Front, Ramp, and Twitch.
Our team is in-office 4 days a week (Monday - Friday, Wednesday optional WFH) in either San Francisco, California or New York, New York.
About The Role As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will sit at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer delivery. You’ll embed directly with customers, deeply understand their workflows, and design and deploy AI-powered solutions that deliver immediate, real-world impact. This is a highly autonomous, hands-on role for someone who thrives in ambiguous environments, enjoys working directly with customers, and wants to shape product direction through what they see in the field. You’ll partner closely with Product and Engineering to turn customer needs into scalable systems that improve how healthcare organizations operate.
What You’ll Do
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Embed directly with customers to understand their workflows, constraints, and success criteria
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Design, build, and deploy AI-driven solutions tailored to real operational problems
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Build and maintain production systems including APIs, integrations, monitoring, and feedback loops
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Translate business requirements and customer needs into technical architectures and implementations
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Operate in high-stakes environments where reliability, speed, and judgment matter
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Identify patterns across customer deployments and feed insights back into core product and platform development
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Partner closely with Product and Engineering to influence roadmap, abstractions, and long-term system design
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Own deployments end-to-end, from initial scoping through launch and iteration
What We’re Looking For
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Strong proficiency in Python (TypeScript / JavaScript experience is a plus).
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Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
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Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into working, production-ready systems.
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Strong communication skills and comfort working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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High ownership mindset with the ability to operate independently in fast-changing environments.
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Experience with AI systems (LLMs, vector databases, prompt engineering, or agent frameworks) is a strong plus.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,952 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$150–220K/yr
- California median$156–265K/yr567 salary ranges
- US median$143–265K/yr2,600 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $185K, is 10% below the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the middle half of Forward Deployed Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 683 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs in California and 2,952 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Forward Deployed Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (2,571 postings).
- Education
- 607 of the 2,952 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs (21%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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