Forward Deployed Engineer
AI summary of the role
Join the founding team of Collate's Forward Deployed Engineering group, partnering with Fortune 100 life sciences companies to deploy production AI systems for document and regulatory workflows.
What you’ll do
- Lead end-to-end deployments of Collate's AI systems inside life sciences organizations, owning scoping, build, and production rollout.
- Embed with customer teams (medical writers, regulatory affairs, clinical ops) to identify structural problems and buildable solutions.
- Design and ship production AI systems including document generation agents, agentic workflows, and data pipelines.
- Define and run eval loops to measure system quality against workflow-specific benchmarks and improve deployed systems.
What you’ll bring
- Owned customer-facing AI deployments end-to-end, from scoping through production adoption, with measurable workflow impact.
- 0-to-1 build track record: built production software from scratch in ambiguous environments.
- Hands-on production AI experience: prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, deployment at scale.
- Operated as a senior engineer or tech lead trusted to make technical decisions without defined specs.
Technologies
Go · Postgres · TypeScript · React · Python · AWS · Kubernetes · Terraform · Argo CD · Kafka · OpenSearch · LLMs
About Collate
AI platform that automates regulated documentation and review for pharma, diagnostics, and medical-device teams across development, quality, and commercialization.
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and leaders in healthcare and AI. This is a rare chance to join an early-stage company with world-changing potential, experienced founders, and resources to execute at scale. About the Role Collate’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with Fortune 100 life sciences organizations to deploy production AI systems across their most critical document and regulatory workflows. We operate at the boundary of customer deployment and core platform development — using early engagements to define repeatable solution patterns, evaluation standards, and agentic architectures that scale across the industry. You’ll join as one of the first members of this team and operate with the autonomy of a founder. Your job is to go deep on the hardest problems at our most strategic customers — medical writers, regulatory affairs teams, clinical operations, and development engineers — identify what’s
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About Collate Collate is an AI document generation platform for life sciences. We automate paperwork with AI, helping our customers get life-saving innovations to patients years faster. Collate is an end-to-end solution, powering every step of drug, diagnostic, and medical device development—from concept to market. Our CEO Surbhi Sarna is a former General Partner at Y Combinator. Surbhi founded nVision Medical, which developed a new method to detect ovarian cancer and was acquired by Boston Scientific. Our CTO Nate Smith is a former Visiting Partner at Y Combinator and founder of Lever. Our AI researchers, engineers, and designers have worked at Google, Nvidia, Meta, Netflix, Amazon, AirBnB, Hippocratic AI, and Grail, and 40% of our team are former founders. We’re an elite team, with $125M in funding from top investors (Redpoint, First Round Capital, CRV, Conviction, Y Combinator) and leaders in healthcare and AI. This is a rare chance to join an early-stage company with world-changing potential, experienced founders, and resources to execute at scale. About the Role Collate’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with Fortune 100 life sciences organizations to deploy production AI systems across their most critical document and regulatory workflows. We operate at the boundary of customer deployment and core platform development — using early engagements to define rep [... source excerpt omitted ...] he industry. You’ll join as one of the first members of this team and operate with the autonomy of a founder. Your job is to go deep on the hardest problems at our most strategic customers — medical writers, regulatory affairs teams, clinical operations, and development engineers — identify what’s structurally broken, and build production AI systems that solve it. What you build shapes the Collate platform for every customer that comes after you. Modern Tech Stack Collate uses a modern tech stack, targeting a highly reliable and available platform. We use Go for scalable backend services, Postgres as our main database, TypeScript & React for frontend development, and Python fo [... source excerpt omitted ...] Kafka, OpenSearch, LLMs, and other AI models. What You’ll Do Lead end-to-end deployments of Collate’s AI systems inside life sciences organizations — owning scoping, build, and production rollout from first conversation to measurable workflow impact. Go deep before you write a line of code. Embed with customer teams — medical writers, regulatory affairs, clinical ops — to understand what’s structurally broken, where the highest concentration of unsolved value lives, and what’s actually buildable. Design and ship production AI systems — document generation agents, agentic workflows, data pipelines — that integrate with customers’ existing infrastructure and regulatory environme
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