Heidi

Healthcare

ForwardDeployedEngineer

$160–220k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Forward Deployed Engineer at Heidi. Skills: Full-stack engineering fundamentals, Integration, Debugging production issues, Building custom clinical workflows, Technical communication, Operational ownership. Own the full technical lifecycle from first deployment through to a thriving, self-sufficient customer. Standing up integrations”

What You'll Achieve.

Make Heidi actually work in the real world; Achieve a thriving, self-sufficient customer; Turn fuzzy workflow pain into a concrete technical path; Ship the system; Ensure systems sit inside real healthcare operations; Ensure failures can be understood and recovered from; Help turn repeated field learning into the next layer of the product; Create a global impact; Reimagine primary care and change the face of healthcare

Industry & Context.

Healthcare
Problems you'll solve

Good product judgment; Separate the stated request from the real problem; Ask sharp questions; Make practical trade-offs; Systems thinking; See both the local deployment need and the broader product pattern

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years of software engineering experience, full-stack or product engineering fundamentals, Good product judgment, implementation discipline, Comfort with ambiguity and customer proximity, systems thinking, Operational ownership, Collaborative working style, Technical communication, Fluency with AI coding tools

Nice to Have

Healthcare integrations, EHR workflows, event-driven systems, workflow orchestration, agentic systems, complex enterprise deployments

What You'll Do.

Own the full technical lifecycle from first deployment through to a thriving

self-sufficient customer

Standing up integrations

Building custom clinical workflows

Debugging production issues

Becoming a trusted technical partner to clinicians and IT teams

Understanding what is actually happening in the workflow and turning that into software that works

Building configuration

and product extensions

Bringing back high-signal evidence about customer needs and platform improvements

Working with customer IT

and clinical stakeholders to understand constraints and design implementation paths

testable code with clear interfaces

thoughtful error handling

Composing from existing capabilities and building new pieces when necessary

Helping to define the FDE function

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work closely with Product and Engineering; Work with customer IT, security, operations, and clinical stakeholders; Work tightly with product, deployment, and platform teams; Operate in a close loop with deployment strategists, clinical specialists, product engineering, and platform teams; Work well in a tight feedback loop with product, deployment, sales, and engineering; Comfortable sharing work in progress, pairing on hard problems, and pressure-testing decisions early; Explain trade-offs clearly to customer IT teams, clinical leaders, and internal engineering teams

Communication Scope

Technical communication; Explain trade-offs clearly

Full Job Description

WHO WE ARE Healthcare needs a better rhythm: one that keeps care continuous and deeply human. Heidi is building an AI Care Partner that works alongside clinicians to make that possible. We’re a team of doctors, engineers, designers, researchers, and creatives building tools that help clinicians stay focused on what matters most: their patients. In just 18 months, Heidi has given back more than 18 million hours to healthcare professionals — supporting 73 million patient visits in 116 countries. Today, more than two million patient visits each week are powered by Heidi worldwide. Backed by nearly $100 million in funding, we’re growing in the US, UK, Canada, and Europe, partnering with leading health systems including the NHS, Beth Israel Lahey Health, and Monash Health. THE ROLE As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll be embedded with our most strategic customers — the person who makes Heidi actually work in the real world. You'll own the full technical lifecycle from first deployment through to a thriving, self-sufficient customer: standing up integrations, building custom clinical workflows, debugging production issues, and becoming a trusted technical partner to the clinicians and IT teams you work with. You're not handing off to someone else — you're seeing it through. You'll work closely with Product and Engineering to surface what customers actually need, acting as the field intelligence that shapes the roadmap. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build systems in real clinical environments: You’ll work close to customers where Heidi’s product meets the messy reality of healthcare operations, EHR constraints, security requirements, specialty workflows, and implementation deadlines. The goal is to understand what is actually happening in the workflow and turn that into software that works. - Ship customer-specific workflow solutions with product discipline: You’ll build the configuration, integrations, workflow logic, and product extensions needed to make Heidi successful in importa

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