Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
Our Culture
At Manifold we value intellectual rigor humility and mission-driven collaboration. We believe that technology is only as powerful as the people behind it and were building a culture that supports growth inclusion and curiosity. We work fast think deeply and strive to make a lasting impact on patients lives.
About Manifold
As the amount of biomedical data types and scale continues to grow old ways of working with data hold back the pace of progress fragmented data overwhelming omics complex manual work analysis backlogs friction in secure collaboration and barriers to distributing workflows.
Manifold is a health research infrastructure company that enables researchers to focus on the high-impact research that matters most by taking care of all the other stuff that gets in the way. As a trusted research platform for modern scientific collaboration we partner with top-tier healthcare providers life sciences organizations and research institutions to unlock real-world data and deliver actionable insights that improve precision medicine and discovery.
Were a early stage VCfunded startup with over 50 employees across North America backed by world-class investors and healthcare leaders including Andrew Marks of TQ Ventures Jason Schoettler of Calibrate Ventures Gaurav Singal of Foundation Medicine Steve Fredette of Toast Amar Kendale of Livongo Andrew Bialecki of Klaviyo Brad Porter of Amazon Jon Karlen of Acadian Software and Pravin Soni of Elevation Pharma.
About the Role
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) you will sit at the intersection of engineering product and customer success. Youll work directly with our life sciences and healthcare partners to deploy Manifolds platform in real-world environments tailoring solutions to their unique needs.
This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in fast-paced customer-facing environmentssomeone who loves solving complex problems hands-on bridging the gap between platform engineering and applied use cases in genomics oncology and clinical research.
What Youll Do
Own deployments of the Manifold platform at customer sites ensuring seamless integration with existing data systems and workflows.
Collaborate with researchers data scientists and clinical teams to translate their problems into scalable technical solutions.
Implement customize and optimize pipelines for multimodal data (EHR genomics imaging clinical data).
Act as the technical voice of the customer bringing feedback into Manifolds product roadmap.
Troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges across cloud infrastructure data ingestion and security/compliance environments.
Partner closely with engineering and product teams to ensure deployments are scalable reproducible and production-ready.
Create technical documentation and best practices to enable repeatable deployments across institutions.
What Youll Bring
5 years of professional experience in software engineering data engineering or related technical roles.
Strong proficiency with Python SQL and cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred).
Experience working with healthcare life sciences or other regulated data environments a strong plus.
Comfort navigating both technical and non-technical conversations with researchers clinicians and IT stakeholders.
Ability to work independently in dynamic customer-facing situations while maintaining strong collaboration with internal teams.
Enthusiasm for working in a startup environment where adaptability curiosity and ownership are key.
What We Offer
Supported remote work across North American time zones.
Comprehensive benefits: healthcare dental vision life insurance disability.
401k match 12 weeks parental leave end of year holiday week shutdown
Pet insurance pharmacy discounts.
A culture that values curiosity transparency and impact.
About the Team
We are a team of proven startup operators with a track record of building successful technology companies and deep subject matter expertise across oncology clinical precision medicine enterprise SaaS and healthcare technology.
Were still a startupsome things are unstructured and we like it that way. We value adaptability ownership and an eagerness to jump in wherever needed to move the mission forward.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- APIs
- C/C++
- Computer Graphics
- Go
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Library Services
- Assembly
- GraphQL
- High Voltage
About Company
Cohort analysis. Data science. Multimodal dashboards. Bioinformatics. Governance. Do it all in one AI-native data platform purpose-built for life sciences.
