Forward Deployed Engineer

Astrana Health Management; Monterey Park (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Astrana Health is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Software Engineering team in Monterey Park, CA. You will embed with clinical, operations, and market teams to design and deploy production systems that improve care delivery and reduce costs.

This role combines in-office collaboration with remote work across our CA/NV footprint, building AI-driven tools, data pipelines, and customer-facing applications to scale real-world healthcare solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience building and deploying production systems.
• Strong technical fundamentals and problem-solving ability.
• 1–3 years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, ML, AI, or related fields.
• Open to exceptional new graduates with strong builder potential.

Responsibilities

• Work with clinical, operations, and market teams to understand how work happens.
• Identify high-impact problems affecting cost, quality, and patient outcomes.
• Rapidly design and build tools, automations, and AI systems in production.
• Work with messy clinical, claims, and operational data.
• Build data pipelines, APIs, models, and user-facing applications.
• Iterate quickly based on real-world feedback.
• Help shape technology adoption across the organization.

Skills

Production systems

Technical fundamentals

Problem solving

Software engineering

Education

B.S./M.S./PhD in CS or related field

Job description

Forward Deployed Engineer

Department: Software Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: 1600 Corporate Center Dr., Monterey Park, CA 91754

Compensation: $100,000 - $140,000 / year

Description

Astrana is building a high-impact AI transformation team focused on solving the most important problems across the business. The role is straightforward: identify where the organization is losing time, outcomes, or value - and build systems that fix it.

This means working directly with the people running our markets, understanding how the work actually gets done, and building entirely new tools, automations, and applications from the ground up.

This position operates under a hybrid work model, with a combination of in-office and remote work each week. Office locations include Monterey Park, CA; Orange County, CA; and Las Vegas, NV.

What This Role Involves

You will embed directly within clinical, operations, and market teams and build systems that change how care is delivered and how the business performs.

Typical Activities

• Build an AI-driven tool to help care teams prioritize high-risk patients
• Automate a workflow that is currently manual and impacting revenue or cost
• Deploy an LLM-based system on top of messy clinical or claims data
• Create internal tools that providers and operators rely on every day

This role is about shipping real systems that work in the real world – not prototypes or isolated experiments.

Why this role - and why Astrana

Healthcare is nearly 20% of U.S. GDP, yet remains fragmented, inefficient, and misaligned.

Astrana is building a new category: a technology-driven healthcare platform that sits across payers, providers, and care delivery – integrating clinical, claims, and operational data and enabling decisions based on total patient outcomes, not isolated transactions. Astrana is building the operating layer for healthcare delivery.

This is not a concept. It is already working. Astrana today:

• $3.2B in revenue in 2025, growing 56% year-over-year
• 1.6M+ patients under management across a national platform

Why do this here vs somewhere else:

• You are early, despite meaningful scale
• You can actually change the system, not just analyze it
• Astrana operates under delegated risk, with real responsibility for cost and outcomes – so what you build can directly influence decisions and behavior
• There is immediate, real-world deployment at scale
• Improving outcomes while reducing cost is the business model – making AI, automation, and coordination economically meaningful from day one
• You have executive backing and speed
• You are surrounded by strong builders

AI is a core priority with direct CEO sponsorship, enabling fast iteration from idea to production.

What You'll Do

• Work directly with clinical, operations, and market teams to understand how work actually happens
• Identify high-impact problems affecting cost, quality, and patient outcomes
• Rapidly design and build tools, automations, and AI systems used in production
• Work with complex, messy datasets (clinical, claims, operational)
• Build across the stack: data pipelines, APIs, models, and user-facing applications
• Iterate quickly based on real-world feedback
• Help shape how technology is adopted across the organization

Who this is for

• Build things without being asked
• Get deeply curious and go down rabbit holes to understand problems
• Are comfortable operating with ambiguity and figuring things out from first principles
• Care about impact and usefulness more than perfection
• Want their work to be used immediately by real people

Strong signals

• You have built and shipped systems that real users depend on
• You have worked with real-world, messy data
• You have hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG systems, agents, or applied ML
• You can go from idea to working product quickly
• You have taught yourself tools or technologies

Qualifications

• Experience building and deploying production systems
• Strong technical fundamentals and problem-solving ability
• Preferred: B.S., M.S., PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field
• 1-3 years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, ML, AI, or related fields (flexible for exceptional candidates)

We are open to exceptional new graduates and early-career engineers who demonstrate strong builder instincts and high potential.

Environmental Job Requirements and Working Conditions

• This position operates under a hybrid work model, with a combination of in-office and remote work each week. Office locations include Monterey Park, CA; Orange County, CA; and Las Vegas, NV.
• The target salary range is $100,000 - $140,000, with potential for equity participation. Final compensation will be based on geographic location, experience, and overall qualifications.

Astrana Health is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affiliation employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. If you require assistance in applying for open positions due to a disability, please email us at [e-mail] to request an accommodation.

Additional Information:

The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.