Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
AI summary of the role
Head of Forward Deployed Engineering at a healthcare AI company, responsible for building and leading the team that deploys AI agents for large health systems.
What you’ll do
- Scale the Forward Deployed Engineering team, including hiring, coaching, and developing a high-performing organization.
- Own end-to-end technical delivery for our most strategic customers.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to translate customer needs into scalable technical solutions and influence product roadmap.
- Establish deployment patterns, best practices, and internal tooling to scale implementation work.
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years leading customer-facing technical teams.
- Track record of scaling technical implementation or deployment teams in fast-growing B2B or enterprise software companies.
- Strong technical fundamentals with hands-on ability to design, build, and debug production systems.
- Exceptional at balancing customer needs, technical feasibility, and engineering velocity.
Technologies
AI agents · EHR integrations · deployment patterns · production systems · technical discovery · debugging · platform engineering · customer-facing technical teams
About Assort Health
Builds specialty-specific AI agents for healthcare providers that handle inbound calls, scheduling, intake, referrals, payments, and proactive outreach across EHR-connected voice, text, and email.
Series B · 200–500 people
Source and classification
Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:
Series C at a $1.2 billion valuation. We've also been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 and the 2026 Enterprise Tech 30 as the only healthcare AI company on the list! Healthcare spends $1.1 trillion a year on administration instead of care. If you want to help change that, apply below. About the Role As the Head of Forward Deployed Engineering at Assort Health, you'll build and lead the team responsible for turning our AI agent platform into production systems for our largest and most complex healthcare customers. Your team sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer success — owning the technical implementation of health system deployments, custom EHR integrations, and workflow builds that bring AI agents to life. You'll scale the FDE organization from a small team to 10+ engineers, establish repeatable deployment patterns, and create the feedback loop that turns
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