Founding Forward-Deployed ML Engineer

Overview

About the Role This is a founding-team opportunity at a small, fast-moving healthtech AI company building evidence infrastructure for safety-critical medical imaging AI. As a Founding Forward-Deployed ML Engineer , you will sit at the intersection of research, product deployment, and clinical operations, working directly with hospital partners to evaluate and deploy medical imaging AI in real-wor

What you'll do

• About the Role This is a founding-team opportunity at a small, fast-moving healthtech AI company building evidence infrastructure for safety-critical medical imaging AI.
• As a Founding Forward-Deployed ML Engineer , you will sit at the intersection of research, product deployment, and clinical operations, working directly with hospital partners to evaluate and deploy medical imaging AI in real-world clinical settings.
• You will play a central role in bridging the gap between benchmark performance and clinical reliability, translating AI models into trusted tools for patient care.
• This is a high-ownership, high-impact role suited to someone who is equally comfortable writing code, navigating clinical environments, and driving cross-functional projects to completion.
• Work arrangement: Hybrid, on-site in Sunnyvale, CA.
• Travel to hospital partner sites required as needed.
• Visa sponsorship: Not available.
• What You'll Do Build reproducible evaluation pipelines and validation workflows for medical imaging AI in clinical settings.
• Lead forward-deployed engagements by working on-site with hospital partners to integrate models into clinical workflows.
• Analyze model generalization, failure modes, and uncertainty to inform clinical reliability assessments.

Requirements

• Practical experience with Engineering.
• Experience level: 2+ yrs.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English.
• Comfortable working remotely with distributed teams.

Skills