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Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

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Redwood City, CAJob$225–250K/yrPosted todayStill listed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$225–250K/yr
Location
Redwood City, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Suki is hiring a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to lead complex Platform customer integrations from scoping through production. The individual contributor will work with customer engineering, product, and clinical teams, then turn integration lessons into reusable tools, patterns, and product feedback. The role includes onsite customer work and about 15% travel, with responsibility for deployments, post-launch operations, mentoring, and hiring support.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Python (Programming Language)Go (Programming Language)Java (Programming Language)TypeScriptJavaScript (Programming Language)React.jsAPI DesignApplication SecurityDistributed ComputingCloud ComputingTechnical ServicesReactLLM ProductionPrompt DesignLLM EvaluationOpenAPI 3.0API SecurityDistributed SystemsOn-Premises DeploymentCloud DeploymentData StructuresAlgorithmsProbabilitySystem DesignCommunicationHealthcareHIPAAEHR IntegrationsHL7/FHIRReal-Time SystemsStreaming SystemsWebSocketsgRPCAudio Streaming

Qualifications

8+ Years Relevant ExperienceTechnical Lead on Complex Customer Projects

Full job description

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer Redwood City, CA Suki builds AI for clinical documentation. Clinicians who use Suki spend over 70% less time on admin work, and our customers see a 9X return in their first year. Suki Platform gives other healthcare companies access to the same technology through APIs and SDKs, powering voice features in telehealth platforms, care delivery tools, and specialty EMRs. We are hiring a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to lead technical delivery for our most important Platform customers. This is an individual contributor role. About the role Integrating AI into healthcare systems is hard. APIs behave differently in production, clinical workflows vary from site to site, and small edge cases decide whether clinicians keep using the product. You will own our most complex customer integrations from scoping to production. You will also turn what you learn into tools, patterns, and product feedback that help the rest of the team deliver faster. What you will do

  • Lead technical delivery for strategic Platform customers, working directly with their engineering, product, and clinical teams.
  • Turn unclear customer requirements into solution designs using dictation, ambient, text generation, and summarization.
  • Make architecture decisions on security, data handling, and edge cases.
  • Build reference implementations and playbooks the team can reuse.
  • Deploy distributed applications in on-premises and cloud environments, and own them after launch, including monitoring and incident response.
  • Bring customer feedback to our Platform, ML, and Product teams and help shape the roadmap.
  • Mentor other engineers on the team, review their work, and help with hiring.

What we are looking for

  • 8+ years in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, technical consulting, or application development.
  • Experience as the technical lead on complex customer projects, with influence beyond your own work.
  • Strong skills in Python, Go, or Java, and working knowledge of TypeScript, JavaScript, and React.
  • Experience shipping LLM features to production, including prompt design, evaluation, and trade-offs between latency, cost, and quality.
  • Strong knowledge of OpenAPI 3.0, API design, and API security.
  • Experience deploying and running distributed systems on-premises and in the cloud.
  • Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, probability, and system design.
  • Clear communication with engineers, clinicians, and executives, including onsite work with customer IT teams.

Nice to have

  • Healthcare experience, such as HIPAA, EHR integrations, or HL7/FHIR.
  • Experience with real-time or streaming systems, such as WebSockets, gRPC, or audio streaming.

You don't need to have done all of this. If you have done most of it and are ready to learn the rest, we want to hear from you. Our stack GCP, Kubernetes, Vertex AI, Go, Python, C++, PyTorch, JAX, gRPC, JavaScript, and a range of open and commercial LLMs. Why Suki

  • Clinicians at health systems across the country use Suki every day.
  • Our team includes former Google and Apple engineers, Stanford physicians, and healthcare veterans.
  • We are going after a $30B+ market.
  • We have raised $165M from investors including Venrock, First Round, Flare, and March Capital.
  • We have been recognized by Fast Company, Google (Partner of the Year for AI/ML), Forbes (AI 50), and Frost & Sullivan.

Suki is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. The details This role includes onsite customer work, with travel of about 15% Under California pay transparency law, the base salary range for this role in California is $225,000 to $250,000. The range does not include bonus or equity. Final pay depends on skills, experience, scope, and market data.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,952 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$225–250K/yr
  • California median$156–265K/yr567 salary ranges
  • US median$143–265K/yr2,600 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $238K, is 16% above the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the top quarter 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.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Forward Deployed Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 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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