Forward Deployed Engineer

Trellis AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Flexible PTO

Office meals

Team offsites

Equity

Job summary

Trellis AI, a Stanford AI Lab spinout, seeks Forward Deployed Engineers in San Francisco to work with healthcare providers, pharma, and diagnostic labs. You will design and deploy AI-powered workflows that reduce pre-service bottlenecks and improve patient access to therapies.

You will partner with our founding team and enterprise customers, owning end-to-end delivery and shaping solutions across sales, marketing, and recruitment.

Qualifications

• Architect and implement AI-driven workflows in healthcare settings.
• Collaborate with clinical teams to translate needs into technical solutions.
• Design and build healthcare data pipelines, focusing on reliability and security.
• Provide end-to-end delivery of high-impact projects in autonomous teams.
• Engage with leadership and customers to drive project success.

Responsibilities

• Architect AI workflows and integrate with EHR systems.
• Own end-to-end delivery of high-impact projects in small teams.
• Collaborate with clinical teams, operations managers, and executives to optimize workflows.
• Develop healthcare data pipelines from clinical notes to guidelines and results.
• Define implementation roadmaps, milestones, and success metrics.

Skills

AI workflows

EHR integration

Data pipelines

Healthcare domain

Customer collaboration

Job description

Trellis helps healthcare providers treat more patients faster—while eliminating pre-service paperwork.

We do this by automating document intake, prior authorizations, and appeals at scale to streamline operations and accelerate care.

Trellis is a spinout from Stanford AI lab and is backed by leading investors including YC, General Catalyst, Telesoft partners, and executives at Google and Salesforce.

The Role

Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) at Trellis work directly with healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies, and diagnostic labs to understand their most pressing operational challenges and implement AI-powered solutions that transform patient care. Our customers trust Trellis for mission-critical healthcare operations, and projects often start with complex questions like \"How do we reduce prior authorization denial rates while accelerating patient access to life-saving treatments?\" or \"How can we streamline our drug program enrollment process to get patients the medications they need faster?\"

Why work with us

• Be at the forefront of what's possible in AI and Healthcare data.




• Work on the most important problem of our time—with direct, measurable impact.




• You will work closely with the F500 customers and the founding team. You will get to wear multiple hats from sales and marketing to recruiting.




• Extreme ownership: you will own key part of Trellis business operations and have the opportunities to start new initiatives.




• Be a part of a world-class team (e.g., team members have previously won the international physics olympiad, published economics research, were a founding engineer at Unicorn Startup, and taught AI classes to hundreds of Stanford graduate students).

Requirements

• Core Responsibilities: As an FDE, your role combines the technical depth of a senior engineer with the strategic thinking of a healthcare consultant. You'll work in small, autonomous teams with direct access to leadership and own end-to-end delivery of high-impact projects. Your day might include:

  
  
  
  

  • Technical Implementation: Architecting and building custom AI workflows, integrating with EHR systems, and developing healthcare-specific data pipelines

  
  

  • Customer Collaboration: Working directly with clinical teams, operations managers, and C-suite executives to understand workflows and optimize outcomes

  
  

  • Data Engineering: Processing and structuring complex healthcare data, from clinical notes to insurance guidelines to lab results

  
  

  • Product Development: Building custom interfaces and tools that seamlessly integrate into existing healthcare workflows

  
  

  • Strategic Planning: Establishing implementation roadmaps and success metrics for large-scale healthcare transformation projects

  
  

Compensation & Benefits

The salary range above is our good-faith estimate. Your final level and base salary will reflect what you bring: your skills, your experience, and how much ownership you’re ready to take on. Base pay is only one part of the package. Every full-time teammate also gets meaningful equity, because the people building Trellis should share in what it becomes. We are committed to keeping you healthy and supported so you can do the best work of your career. Here are some of the benefits & perks we offer:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage




• Flexible PTO & Sick Time




• Daily meals in the office




• Team offsites

Equal Opportunity at Trellis

At Trellis, we’re building AI agents that help patients get life-saving medicine faster. The patients and providers we serve come from every background, and our team should too. Trellis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We hire based on talent, curiosity, and drive, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

If you need an accommodation at any point in our hiring process, let your recruiter know and we’ll take care of it.