Solutions Engineer
Job Summary
What if you could personally impact the future of healthcare As part of the PocketHealth team you will enable hospitals and clinics across North America and more importantly empower over 3 million patients to discover a better healthcare experience.
PocketHealth automates the operational complexity of healthcare: the manual non-clinical work that surrounds every patient visit. For more than a decade the company has automated this work from both the provider and patient sides building a distinct understanding of how providers operate and how patients engage in their care. Its agentic operations platform extends that expertise across the enterprise automating non-clinical workflows end-to-end while working inside existing systems and adapting to each sites SOPs. The result: improved capacity financial performance and patient outcomes. PocketHealth is SOC 2 and HIPAA and PHIPA compliant and trusted by 900 health systems.
PocketHealth is scaling its sales engineering function as demand for our products has outgrown our capacity. This role will sit alongside the Sales team to operate as a technical subject matter expert on customer/prospect calls and to create and review the technical documentation required to keep deals moving quickly across our full product suite.
You will own the technical work that keeps deals moving day to day: customer calls security reviews RFP responses statements of work and scoping documentation. The goal is that our most complex enterprise opportunities have a technical resource assigned from the early stages. You will be mentored directly by our Enterprise Architect and will grow into full ownership of a segment of the business.
This is a customer-facing role from day one. Working in tandem with Account Executives you will be introduced to prospects and current clients as our Solutions Engineer and will own the technical relationship and deliverables with hospital IT leaders security teams and radiology operations stakeholders.
This job posting is for an existing vacancy. The salary range for this position is $150000 $170000 annually depending on the experience and expertise you bring to the team. Salary is just one part of the story though; this role is also eligible for equity in the form of stock options and includes a comprehensive health and benefits package. We view our compensation as a total investment in your well-being designed to support you both in your work and in your life outside of it.
- Join sales calls as the technical authority on behalf of PocketHealth particularly where the prospect/customer includes a technical stakeholder.
- Answer architecture integration and infrastructure questions with credibility and in the moment. Know where the boundaries of the product are.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and business acumen to answer questions accurately while aligning technical capabilities to product value.
- Use technical calls to broaden our footprint in an account bringing additional stakeholders into the conversation.
- Work with external stakeholders as well as internal Legal and Compliance to complete security reviews (questionnaires spreadsheets and vendor portals).
- Draw from and help maintain our centralized repository of reviewed security answers working alongside the compliance function in Legal and apply judgment to every answer.
- Turn call outcomes into finished deliverables such as follow-up answers scoping notes and integration write-ups on the tight timelines deals actually run on so that momentum is never lost waiting for documentation.
- Build statements of work for product implementations that reflect the real implementation effort including integration method data access and dependencies.
- Flag complexity triggers that change the cost or price of a deal: unusual technology stacks non-web-based applications protocol-heavy workflows or requirements that need internal subject matter expertise. Raise them before a contract is signed.
- Validate integration assumptions early.
- Translate customer technical requirements into internal feature or build requests exhausting existing product capability and completing a preliminary technical evaluation engaging Engineering strategically.
- Partner with deployments and forward-deployed engineering so that what was sold is what gets deployed.
- Coach account executives on the technical questions worth asking raising the quality of qualification across the team.
- 5-10 years in a customer-facing technical role: solutions engineering sales engineering solutions architecture technical account management or implementation consulting.
- Experience working in an early stage high-growth environment where speed and flexibility are paramount.
- A working understanding of enterprise architecture(hybrid and public cloud) systems and infrastructure and the confidence to discuss it credibly with hospital IT teams executive leadership and security.
- Understanding of best practices and proper use cases for healthcare protocols identity and access management public cloud services and data handling.
- A genuine interest in information security. You do not need to arrive as a security analyst and we will ramp you but the curiosity has to be there because a meaningful share of this role is security review work and understanding how to safely deploy technology.
- Strong written communication. Much of your output is documentation another party will make a purchasing decision against.
- Comfort operating across both strategic and routine work. Some of this job is high-stakes solutioning on complex deals; some of it is disciplined careful documentation and both matter.
- Based in the GTA with the ability to work from our downtown office twice per week.
- Experience working with healthcare organizations and their systems including large Epic installations and provincially integrated environments.
- Understanding of AI safety and quality including: model types training evaluation criteria (bias hallucination) and deterministic guardrails.
- Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards (HL7 DICOM FHIR) and imaging or radiology workflows.
- Exposure to SOC 2 vendor risk assessments or healthcare privacy regimes such as PHIPA/ PIPEDA or HIPAA.
Required Experience:
IC