Healthcare Forward-Deployed Engineer: End-to-End Delivery

protege; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Protege is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to join our healthcare team. This hands-on role focuses on end-to-end ownership of customer engagements, from initial feasibility through delivery and post-launch support.

You’ll partner with our healthcare GM, Solutions Leads, and DataLab to navigate requirements. FDEs work across multiple deals, building last-mile work, surfacing patterns for product, and developing technical depth in healthcare.

Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering, solution architecture, forward deployed engineering, or similar customer-facing technical role.
• Ability to own customer engagements from scoping through delivery and support.
• Strong technical execution across custom solutions, integrations, data transformations, and/or applications.
• Comfort operating in healthcare data environments, including PHI and regulatory considerations.
• Strong customer-facing communication and ability to build trust with technical stakeholders.
• Ability to bridge customer needs with product and platform capabilities.
• High ownership, adaptability, and comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Bias toward creating reusable systems, playbooks, tooling, and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Own healthcare customer engagements end-to-end from scoping through delivery and post-delivery support.
• Become the primary technical partner for assigned healthcare customers.
• Build trusted relationships with customer engineering and technical teams.
• Manage multiple concurrent healthcare engagements while maintaining delivery quality and customer confidence.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Forward deployed engineering

Customer-facing technical role

Engagement ownership

Integrations

Data transformations

Healthcare data sensitivity

Technical communication

Product/platform bridging

Ownership mindset

Reusable systems and playbooks

Job description

Protege is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to join our healthcare team. This hands-on role focuses on end-to-end ownership of customer engagements, from initial feasibility through delivery and post-launch support.

You’ll partner with our healthcare GM, Solutions Leads, and DataLab to navigate requirements. FDEs work across multiple deals, building last-mile work, surfacing patterns for product, and developing technical depth in healthcare.