As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Onos Health, you will bridge the gap between AI technology and real-world deployment for major insurance payers. You’ll develop full-stack solutions, integrate with complex clinical systems, and ship production code that optimizes utilization management, ensuring millions of members receive high-quality, evidence-based behavioral healthcare.
Forward Deployed Engineer at Onos Health
Join Onos Health, a high-growth startup backed by Haystack and Pathlight Ventures that is revolutionizing behavioral health through clinical AI. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will serve as the technical bridge between our platform and major insurance payers like Aetna, building the critical full-stack integrations that reduce administrative waste and improve care quality for millions. This is a unique, high-impact opportunity for a product-minded engineer to work alongside our founding team, ship production code directly to customers, and solve messy, real-world healthcare challenges in a fast-paced seed-stage environment.
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Location
San Francisco, United States
Compensation
Not Disclosed
Company
Onos Health
Role overview
Onos Health is a privately held healthcare AI company that provides a clinical intelligence platform for payers and health plans to minimize waste, streamline operations, and improve healthcare outcomes. The company focuses on behavioral health by helping health plans harness artificial intelligence to distinguish necessary from wasteful care, guide members to the right clinical pathways, and stratify providers by quality of care delivered. By targeting behavioral health programs specifically, Onos Health aims to reduce administrative waste, optimize behavioral‑health care pathways, and elevate the quality and efficiency of care delivery across payer-managed mental and behavioral health populations.
What you will do
- Partner with major payer customers to understand clinical workflows and integrate Onos Health with their internal UM and clinical systems.
- Build and maintain full-stack features using Python, Django, and PostgreSQL to solve complex data integration and clinical review challenges.
- Collaborate directly with the founding team to refine the product roadmap based on real-world customer feedback and deployment hurdles.
Who this is a fit for
- Strong software engineering background with a product-first mindset, capable of navigating full-stack environments including Python/Django and AWS.
- Proven experience shipping production software at early-stage startups where you owned outcomes end-to-end and managed high levels of ambiguity.
- Excellent communicator comfortable working closely with customers to translate messy real-world clinical requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a founding-adjacent team of 15 people backed by top-tier investors like Haystack and Pathlight Ventures to transform behavioral healthcare.
- Own the end-to-end customer lifecycle, from deep technical integrations with payers like Aetna to building product features that land directly in production.
- Directly impact patient outcomes by using AI to reduce administrative friction and ensure healthcare dollars are spent on high-quality, evidence-based care.
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