Forward Deployed Engineer, Life Sciences
OpenAI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Design and ship production systems around models, owning integrations, data provenance, reliability, and on-call readiness.
- Lead discovery and scoping from pre-sales through post-sales.
- Define and enforce launch criteria for regulated contexts.
- Build in sensitive scientific data environments.
- Run evaluation loops that measure model and system quality against workflow-specific benchmarks.
- Distill deployment learnings into hardened primitives and reference architectures.
Requirements
- Bring 5+ years of software/ML engineering or technical deployment experience with customer-facing ownership in biotech, pharma, clinical research, or scientific software.
- PhD, MS, or equivalent applied experience in a life sciences relevant field encouraged.
- Have owned customer GenAI deployments end-to-end from scoping through production adoption.
- Have delivered AI systems in trial design, regulatory writing, or scientific operations.
- Communicate clearly across scientific, clinical, model research, technical, and executive audiences.
- Apply systems thinking with high execution standards.
Benefits
- We offer relocation assistance.
- Travel up to 50% is required.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software engineeringmachine learning engineeringtechnical deploymentAI systems deliverymodel evaluationdata integrationworkflow-specific benchmarksdeployment learningsreference architecturessystems thinking
Soft skills
customer-facing ownershipclear communicationleadershipcollaborationexecution standards
Certifications
PhDMS