Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
Lead the team that turns Assort Health’s AI agents into production systems for its largest and most complex healthcare customers.
- San Francisco, hybrid
- Full time
- Hire the team
- $210k to $300k base, plus equity
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“You’d hire and run the team that does the deployment work. The market card below is about those forward deployed engineer jobs, not about this seat as an individual contributor.”
Who it suits
A good fit
- Have led a customer-facing technical team
- Like hiring and coaching as much as debugging a production issue
- Can talk with a health-system executive and with the engineers
Think twice
- Want to stay an individual contributor
- Haven’t led a customer-facing technical team
- Don’t want to travel to a customer site
What you’d do
- Hire, coach, and grow the forward deployed engineering team toward 10 or more engineers.
- Own technical delivery for the most strategic health-system customers.
- Turn rollout patterns into product improvements, including EHR integrations and workflow builds.
- Stay embedded at a customer site during a critical implementation.
What they ask for
- You have 5 or more years of software engineering, including 2 or more years leading customer-facing technical teams.
- You’ve scaled an implementation or deployment team at a fast-growing B2B or enterprise software company.
- You can still design, build, and debug production systems with the team.
- You can talk with a health-system C-suite and with engineers.
How it works
- The job is hybrid in San Francisco. You’d travel to customer sites for critical implementations.
What to know about this job
Open 9 weeks
- Week 9This job has been open this long
- Week 12Half of San Francisco FDE jobs have closed
In November 2026, Assort Health had 3 forward deployed engineering jobs open. Two are in San Francisco only, and one is in San Francisco or New York.
The deployment lead, 40% of San Francisco FDE jobs
- 56%The builder. This kind ships production code into the customer’s systems, including integrations, data pipelines, and agents.
- 40%The deployment lead (this job). 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 $210k to $300k base, 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 large is the forward deployed team today?”
- “How often are the customer-site trips, and are they mostly in the US?”
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
About this page
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.