
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Posted Aug 21, 2026
The role in short
Own technical implementations for health system customers by building and deploying production AI agents and custom integrations.
Building Healthcare That Remembers
Every time you call a doctor's office, the system forgets you the moment you hang up. You wait on hold, explain everything from scratch, get bounced between lines, and hope someone follows up. Everyone has felt this. No one should have to.
At Assort Health, we're building one continuous conversation for every patient. An AI agent that knows who you are, remembers how you like to be reached, and carries that context from your first symptom to your full recovery. What began as the first voice AI agent to schedule a specialty appointment has become the largest proprietary specialty dataset in healthcare: 285 million patient interactions, 62,000 care protocols, 1.6 million decision pathways.
We went from 15 people in 2025 and will cross 250 by the end of 2026. Revenue is up 20x in 15 months and we've raised $222 million, including a recent $120 million Series C at a $1.2 billion valuation. We've also been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 and the 2026 Enterprise Tech 30 as the only healthcare AI company on the list!
Healthcare spends $1.1 trillion a year on administration instead of care. If you want to help change that, apply below.
About The Role
We're hiring Senior Forward Deployed Engineers to own customer deployments from technical build through go-live and optimization. You'll be the technical owner for health system implementations, working directly with customers to build, configure, and deploy production AI agents tailored to their workflows.
You'll work closely with Agent Product Managers who own the customer relationship and project plan, while you own the technical execution—building integrations, creating custom workflows, and ensuring successful launches.
What You'll Do
You'll be the technical force behind bringing AI agents to life for healthcare organizations. This isn't a typical engineering role—you'll work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI, complex healthcare systems, and real customer impact.
Ship Production AI Agents
- Own implementations end-to-end for health systems, from technical scoping through go-live and beyond
- Build custom integrations with complex healthcare platforms
- Design intelligent workflows tailored to each customer's specialty, patient population, and operational constraints
- Launch agents that handle thousands of real patient interactions daily
Solve Hard Technical Problems
- Debug gnarly integration issues across phone systems, EHRs, scheduling platforms, and patient engagement tools
- Architect creative solutions to handle healthcare's complexity—insurance verification, appointment rules, clinical protocols
- Build tooling and automation that makes every future implementation faster and better
- Optimize agent performance in production using real-world data and customer feedback
Shape the Product
- Partner directly with Product Engineering to influence platform direction based on what you learn in the field
- Identify patterns across implementations that become product features
- Work with Sales to scope technical requirements and demo capabilities to prospects
- Be the voice of the customer—you'll see what works, what doesn't, and what customers actually need
What We're Looking For
Required:
- 4+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong software engineering background with a track record of shipping production code
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience with APIs, integrations, and working across multiple systems
- Comfortable with ambiguity and building in fast-paced, high-stakes environments
- Excellent communication skills—you can explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Scrappy, resourceful mindset—you find ways to solve problems even when the path isn't clear
- Passion for healthcare and improving patient access
Nice to Have:
- Experience with healthcare systems (EHR, practice management, patient engagement platforms)
- Previous work in customer-facing engineering, solutions engineering, or implementation roles
- Familiarity with voice/telephony systems (Twilio, etc.)
- Background in AI/LLM applications
- Experience working with enterprise customers
Benefits & Perks for Assorties
- 💸 Competitive Compensation – Including salary and employee stock options so you share in our success.
- 📚 Lifelong Learning – Annual budget for professional development, plus training opportunities to help you grow.
- 💻 Office Setup Stipend – We’ll outfit your in-office workspace so comfy as it's productive.
- 🩺 Top-Tier Health Coverage – Medical, dental, and vision insurance, because your health comes first.
- 🏖 Flexible PTO – We trust you to take the time you need to recharge and come back ready to crush it.
- 🥗 Meals & Snacks – Lunch, dinner, and snack breaks that fuel great ideas.
- 💪 Fitness Stipend – Your wellness matters. We reimburse monthly membership costs to support your health.
- 🚆 Commuter Benefits – We cover eligible transportation costs to make your trip to work easier.
- 👵 401(k) – Build your retirement savings.
How We Work & What We Value
Our team at Assort Health moves fast, stays focused, and is fueled by a desire to serve our customers and patients. Our company values guide how we work—they are present in how we show up, make decisions and work together to move our mission forward. We bring a Day One Drive, relentlessly striving to improve, keep a 5-Star Focus, as our customers are our lifeblood, always Answer the Call, remembering that ownership and accountability are paramount, and show up with One Pulse, because we are one team, with one rhythm and one result. Our team is growing and we are looking for motivated, hardworking, and passionate talent. If you want to make healthcare accessible for everyone, we’d love to hear from you!
Please note: the Assort Health Talent Team will only email you from an assorthealth.com email address.
Prep for this interview
4 questions likely to come up at Assort Health, each matched to a line in this posting.
- 1Discovery and scoping
They wrote: “Work with Sales to scope technical requirements and demo capabilities to prospects”
How do you decide what to build first when a customer wants ten things?
How to answer
Why they ask: FDEs have limited weeks per customer. This tests judgment about value, effort and risk.
- Score each request by business value and by effort, with the customer in the room
- Pick one item that proves value fast and unblocks later work
- Write down what's out of scope so it doesn't creep back in
- Revisit the list after the first release, with real usage data
Tip: Show a simple way to rank the list and name what you'd leave out on purpose.
- 2Integrations and APIs
They wrote: “Experience with APIs, integrations, and working across multiple systems”
Walk me through connecting our product to a customer's internal system that has no documentation.
How to answer
Why they ask: This happens weekly in the job. They want a calm, step-by-step method.
- Find who owns the system and get read access to a test environment
- Watch real traffic or logs to learn the data shapes
- Build a thin adapter with logging around every call
- Agree on how failures get reported, and who fixes what
Tip: Talk about finding the owner of the system first. The code is the easy part.
- 3Coding
They wrote: “Strong software engineering background with a track record of shipping production code”
How do you keep quality high when you ship fast at a customer site?
How to answer
Why they ask: Speed is the job, but broken code at a customer is costly. They want your guardrails.
- Tests for the parts that touch customer data or money
- Code review even when it's fast, ideally by someone on the product team
- Feature flags and an easy way to roll back
- Clean up the shortcuts in the next release, and write them down
Tip: Name the few checks you never skip, and what you skip on purpose.
- 4Ownership and working with customers
They wrote: “Comfortable with ambiguity and building in fast-paced, high-stakes environments”
Tell me about a project where the requirements kept changing. What did you do?
How to answer
Why they ask: Ambiguity is the norm. They want proof you can keep moving without a clear spec.
- The project and why requirements kept moving
- What you did to pin them down (short demos, written decisions)
- The trade-offs you made to keep shipping
- The result, with a number if you have one
Tip: Show how you reduced the change, beyond how you coped with it.
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