Forward Deployed Engineer
You’d own the technical build of AI agents for a health system, from the integration through go-live.
- San Francisco or New York, hybrid
- Full time
- Python
- Patient calls
- $155K to $210K, plus equity
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“You’d ship agents that handle real patient calls, on the health system’s own systems.”
Who it suits
A good fit
- like shipping production code inside a customer’s workflow
- can explain a technical choice to someone who doesn’t write code
Think twice
- want a settled spec before you build
- haven’t shipped production code
- don’t want to work in a customer’s systems
What you’d do
- Own the technical build for a health system, from scoping through go-live and later tuning.
- An Agent Product Manager owns the customer relationship and the project plan.
- Scope requirements with sales, and demo the product to prospects.
- Debug issues across phone systems, electronic health records, scheduling, and patient tools.
What they ask for
- You’ve shipped production software, and you’re proficient in Python.
- You’ve worked with APIs and integrations across more than one system.
- You can explain a technical choice to someone who doesn’t write code.
How it works
- The job is hybrid, in San Francisco or New York.
What to know about this job
Open at least 19 weeks. Half of San Francisco FDE jobs have closed by week 12.
- Week 12Half of San Francisco FDE jobs have closed
- Week 19This job has been open this long
In November 2026, Assort Health had 3 forward deployed engineering jobs open. Two are in San Francisco, and this one is in San Francisco or New York.
The builder, the most common kind of FDE in San Francisco
- 56%The builder (this job). This kind ships production code into the customer’s systems, including integrations, data pipelines, and agents.
- 40%The deployment lead. Scopes the customer’s problem, runs the rollout and makes sure the product delivers what was promised.
Shares of open FDE jobs in San Francisco.
Most new San Francisco forward deployed engineers weren’t forward deployed engineers before
- 90% of people who became forward deployed engineers in San Francisco weren’t forward deployed engineers in their last job.
- 46% of them came from a startup or scale-up.
Assort Health lists $155K to $210K, plus equity for this job
The San Francisco forward deployed engineer guide shows what forward deployed engineers in San Francisco expect to earn.
What San Francisco forward deployed engineers earnWorth asking the hiring team
- “How much of a week is the customer’s systems, and how much is Assort’s own platform?”
- “Which health-system integrations are already built, and which would I be writing?”
Jack’s take on Assort Health
- Jon Wang says revenue grew 20x in the 15 months to June 2026
- Total funding grew from $26M to $222M in 14 months
- The team grew from fewer than 20 to 230 people in 18 months
- Its two cofounders run it as co-CEOs, with leaders who helped scale Samsara, Merge and Gusto
- A fast, mostly hybrid place to work
- Based in San Francisco and New York
- Founded 2023
- 38 open jobs
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Jack & Jill isn’t Assort Health’s recruiter. We summarized this job from Assort Health’s public careers page, where you can apply. We check whether it’s still open each time you open this page. The market numbers come from our San Francisco forward deployed engineer guide and the company facts from Assort Health’s page. We last checked this summary against the posting on November 9, 2026. Jack’s take is Jack & Jill’s own.