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Natera

Director, Forward Deployed AI Engineering

Natera

Director leading Forward Deployed AI Engineering team at Natera, delivering AI-powered workflow transformation across various business functions.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeRemote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $186,700 - $233,400 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead a Forward Deployed AI engineering team and deliver AI-powered workflow transformation across various business functions.
  • Partner closely with the AI Platform team to ensure workflows transition cleanly to long-term ownership.
  • Drive deployments from discovery through production including workflow design, agent build, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
  • Serve as the primary contact for function heads throughout AI initiatives.
  • Maintain a prioritized pipeline of AI and automation opportunities.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Hands-on experience with LLM and agent behavior: prompting, context management, tool use, RAG, MCP, evals, and failure modes.
  • Strong working knowledge of APIs, webhooks, SQL, Python scripting, and cloud platforms.
  • Experience running agents in production with formal KPI tracking, eval frameworks, and observability standards.
  • Track record of leading technical teams while remaining a meaningful technical contributor.
  • Ability to earn trust with senior business stakeholders and translate their goals into an executable roadmap with clear sequencing and trade-offs.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents.
  • Free testing for Natera employees and their immediate families.
  • Fertility care benefits.
  • Pregnancy and baby bonding leave.
  • 401k benefits.
  • Commuter benefits.
  • Generous employee referral program.

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Hard Skills & Tools
LLMagent behaviorpromptingcontext managementtool useRAGMCPevalsfailure modesSQL
Soft Skills
leadershiptrust buildingcommunicationstakeholder managementroadmap execution