Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Role Description

Hippocratic AI is building the world's first healthcare-only, safety-focused LLM platform. As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you're an AI systems designer who drives innovation and solves cutting-edge problems in healthcare conversational AI. You develop sophisticated AI systems, anticipate customer needs, and shape how Hippocratic AI deploys advanced LLM techniques at scale. You balance ambitious innovation with production reliability, combining deep AI expertise with architectural thinking.

This role owns the full technical vision for complex AI deployments:

• Architecting advanced RAG systems
• Designing sophisticated tool-calling and MCP integration patterns
• Implementing cutting-edge LLM techniques
• Anticipating and solving customer problems proactively
• Ensuring production reliability across multiple systems
• Mentoring other engineers

You work closely with Deployment Strategists and CSEs to deliver AI agents that set the standard for innovation and reliability in healthcare.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of software engineering experience with expert-level Python and production software systems expertise
• Advanced hands-on experience with LLM frameworks (LangChain, LangSmith)
• Deep understanding of RAG, tool calling, and advanced LLM patterns
• Experience solving novel AI problems
• Proven ability to architect and implement complex AI systems
• Experience designing systems for reliability and scale
• Experience with sophisticated integrations and enterprise systems
• Strong understanding of systems reliability, error handling, and operational patterns
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field from a top ranked university

Requirements

• Experience designing and optimizing advanced RAG systems at scale
• Deep knowledge of retrieval strategies, embedding models, or vector databases
• Hands-on experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar sophisticated tool integration approaches
• Healthcare IT experience (EHR integrations, FHIR, HL7, healthcare data standards)
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives
• Contributions to AI/ML open source projects
• Track record of driving innovation in AI systems or solving novel technical challenges

Benefits

• Architecting the future of AI in healthcare
• Working with world-class AI engineers and clinical experts
• Backed by $404M from top-tier AI and healthcare investors
• Focus on technical excellence at scale
• Transforming how healthcare uses AI

Ready to Apply?

If you've built production AI systems, thrive at the edge of technical and human complexity, and want your work to matter in the most direct sense possible — we'd like to meet you.

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