Hybrid Forward Deployed Engineer for Life Sciences AI

Praxis, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellness stipend

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Atrix is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join its Engineering Team in NYC, with in-office work required and some remote days. You will own 3–5 enterprise accounts, translate complex scientific workflows into AI-powered solutions, and ensure real-world reliability across medical and commercial teams.

You will collaborate with product, design, and GTM leadership to define architecture and drive end-to-end deployments, from onboarding to go-live, in a high-growth startup setting.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years in forward deployed engineering, software engineering, solutions engineering, technical consulting, ML implementation, data engineering, or adjacent roles
• CS degree is required if non-software engineering role held in past
• Strong Python experience; comfortable doing light FE work in React/TS
• Ability to write evals and optimize Ai-driven workflows
• Ability to translate complex technical ideas to a smart, non-technical scientific audience
• Experience working with LLMs, prompt engineering, or AI-native tools
• Obsession with accuracy, reliability, and the details that matter in high-stakes workflows
• Thrives in customer-facing environments and owns outcomes
• Startup experience strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Configure Atrix templates, pipelines, and AI workflows to match complex scientific and medical processes
• Set up and validate customer-approved data sources
• Ensure accuracy, reliability, and trust in AI-generated outputs
• Drive the full implementation lifecycle: onboarding → configuration → validation → go-live → iteration
• Lead weekly customer calls and serve as the primary technical point of contact
• Build quick prototypes and workflow experiments for GTM initiatives
• Translate customer needs into clear product requirements
• Triage bugs and surface feature gaps with engineering to implement fixes
• Shape product roadmap with insights from real-world usage
• Own business-sense QA and accuracy validation for deployments
• Identify risk, propose guardrails, and define scalable validation processes
• Create internal SOPs for deployment, QA, template configuration, and onboarding
• Own 3–5 enterprise accounts end-to-end within 6 months
• Identify patterns across accounts and surface scalable templates or product opportunities
• Become a trusted technical advisor to medical, clinical, and commercial stakeholders

Skills

Python

React/TS

LLMs

Prompt engineering

AI workflows

Customer-facing

Education

CS degree

Tools

Claude code

Cursor

Job description

Atrix is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join its Engineering Team in NYC, with in-office work required and some remote days. You will own 3–5 enterprise accounts, translate complex scientific workflows into AI-powered solutions, and ensure real-world reliability across medical and commercial teams.

You will collaborate with product, design, and GTM leadership to define architecture and drive end-to-end deployments, from onboarding to go-live, in a high-growth startup setting.