Forward Deployed Engineering Lead - AI & HealthTech

AI Chopping Block; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Luminai is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineering Lead in the United States to bridge engineering, product, and customer delivery. You will embed with customers, deeply understand their workflows, and design and deploy AI‑powered solutions that deliver immediate impact.

This highly autonomous role requires turning real‑world needs into scalable systems, setting technical standards, and mentoring a growing FDE team to raise the bar across architecture and deployment practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally as an FDE or in backend / systems‑focused work.
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to operate independently in fast‑changing environments.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Experience with AI systems (LLMs, vector databases, prompt engineering, or agent frameworks) is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Embed directly with customers to understand their workflows, constraints, and success criteria.
• Design, build, and deploy AI‑driven solutions tailored to real operational problems.
• Build and maintain production systems including APIs, integrations, monitoring, and feedback loops.
• Translate business requirements and customer needs into technical architectures and implementations.
• Operate in high‑stakes environments where reliability, speed, and judgment matter.
• Identify patterns across customer deployments and feed insights back into core product and platform development.
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering to influence roadmap, abstractions, and long‑term system design.
• Own deployments end‑to‑end, from initial scoping through launch and iteration.
• Set technical direction and best practices for the FDE team, raising the bar on code quality and deployment rigor.
• Mentor and unblock other FDEs, acting as a senior voice on ambiguous technical and customer tradeoffs.

Skills

Python

Cloud infrastructure

Backend / systems design

Communication

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Luminai is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineering Lead in the United States to bridge engineering, product, and customer delivery. You will embed with customers, deeply understand their workflows, and design and deploy AI‑powered solutions that deliver immediate impact.

This highly autonomous role requires turning real‑world needs into scalable systems, setting technical standards, and mentoring a growing FDE team to raise the bar across architecture and deployment practices.