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Forward Deployed Engineer

HealthLeap


Job Location:

San Francisco, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 200000 - 275000
Posted: 27 September 2026 (8 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 25 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Engineering

Job Summary

About Healthleap

Every day millions of hospitalized patients who need intervention are missed because clinicians simply cant see everything. HealthLeap is building the AI operating system that helps care teams identify these missed patients enabling them to improve health outcomes and generate millions of dollars. HealthLeap is changing what is possible: closing gaps that traditional workflows and clinician capacity could never.

Over the past year weve grown contracted revenue more than 13x expanded rapidly across leading health systems and now help care teams identify patients across millions of inpatient encounters.

Were 25 people. >$32M raised. SF-based hybrid-friendly. And were delivering results that are changing lives.

Forward Deployed Engineer
About the role

Build software with hospital teams then turn what works into product.

HealthLeap helps clinicians find patients who need attention first. Were live at 40 hospitals and plan to add another 100. Each hospital has its own systems API quirks and clinical workflows.

Youll work directly with hospital IT and clinical teams to understand what they need. Much of the job is building and running integrations. Some problems call for more: a tool to help a hospital inspect its data analytics for a clinical team or a workflow built around how that hospital works. Youll build those solutions and make the useful patterns reusable.

Our stack is Python and TypeScript.

What youll do
  • Own the engineering work behind hospital integrations from technical discovery through reliable production data.

  • Build and debug connections to record systems including authentication APIs data mapping and monitoring.

  • Work with hospital teams to investigate problems and test solutions with the people who use them.

  • Build customer tools or analytics when the standard product does not yet meet a hospitals needs.

  • Turn repeated requests into reusable connectors validation tools and product features.

What were looking for
  • 5 years building and operating production software with strong backend API data modeling and SQL skills.

  • Experience taking a complex third-party integration live with the technical team on the other side.

  • Evidence that youve built software around a customers workflow and improved it after they used it.

  • Enjoyment of customer work. You can investigate an unclear problem explain tradeoffs and decide what to build without waiting for a complete spec.

What will make you stand out
  • Youve founded a company or been an early engineer who owned the messy parts.

  • Youve worked with EHRs HL7 or FHIR. Strong engineering and integration judgment matters more than healthcare experience.

This role is NOT for you if
  • Youd rather maintain an interface than build the system.

  • You want the spec handed to you.

  • You want to stay heads-down. Youll work with hospital teams regularly.

  • You want predictable 9-to-5 hours. We protect deep rest but a hospital go-live can mean a 60 hour week.

Interview process

No LeetCode or puzzles. Use the tools youd use on the job including AI.

  1. Intro call

  2. System design

  3. Take-home exercise

  4. Onsite with the team in San Francisco

We decide the same week as the onsite.

Compensation and benefits
  • $200000$275000 base plus meaningful equity

  • 100% covered healthcare premiums

  • Unlimited PTO with a 20-day minimum

  • 4% 401(k) match

  • Laptop and home office budget

Location

San Francisco in person. We work together in the office by default with flexibility to work from home when needed. We judge output not hours.

If youre passionate about applying frontier AI to real-world impact join us in building healthcares future.


Required Experience:

IC


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HealthLeap continuously screens every patient using live chart data so patients get better faster, and you get reimbursed for the care you deliver.

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