Collate

Collate

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$150k-$300kDetected 84 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactBackend DevelopmentPostgreSQLElasticsearchAWSKubernetesTerraformKafkaMachine LearningData EngineeringLLMsFDA RegulatoryMedical DevicesRegulatory Affairs

About the role

  • We operate at the boundary of customer deployment and core platform development - using early engagements to define repeatable solution patterns, evaluation standards, and agentic architectures that scale across the industry.
  • You'll join as one of the first members of this team and operate with the autonomy of a founder.
  • Modern Tech Stack Collate uses a modern tech stack, targeting a highly reliable and available platform.

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end deployments of Collate's AI systems inside life sciences organizations - owning scoping, build, and production rollout from first conversation to measurable workflow impact.
  • You've operated as a senior engineer or tech lead trusted to make technical decisions in ambiguous environments - without needing a defined spec or a clear path.
  • You think like a founder. When you walk into a customer, you're curious about the business, digging into what's broken, and figuring out what to build that doesn't yet exist. You're scrappy, resourceful, and want to do it at a higher level of ambition.
  • you have context in life sciences, regulated industries, or document-heavy workflows - and understand what it means to build for auditability, compliance, and high-stakes review cycles.
  • When you walk into a customer, you're curious about the business, digging into what's broken, and figuring out what to build that doesn't yet exist.

Requirements

  • You have hands-on production AI experience: prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale - not just familiarity with the landscape.
  • You communicate clearly across every altitude - as comfortable in a strategic discussion with a CTO as you are deep in a codebase, and able to translate tradeoffs into decisions for non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ownership: Shape both our product experience and our engineering culture from the start.

Nice to have

  • You think like a founder.
  • You're scrappy, resourceful, and want to do it at a higher level of ambition.

Skills

  • Collate is an end-to-end solution, powering every step of drug, diagnostic, and medical device development-from concept to market.
  • This is a rare chance to join an early-stage company with world-changing potential, experienced founders, and resources to execute at scale.

Compensation

  • The base salary range for this role is $150,000-$300,000 USD annually, depending on experience and level (Tier 1, San Francisco)

Benefits

  • Join a company early enough to have meaningful equity and career-defining impact.
  • Embed with customer teams - medical writers, regulatory affairs, clinical ops - to understand what's structurally broken, where the highest concentration of unsolved value lives, and what's actually buildable.
  • Bonus: you have context in life sciences, regulated industries, or document-heavy workflows - and understand what it means to build for auditability, compliance, and high-stakes review cycles.

Company info

  • Design and ship production AI systems - document generation agents, agentic workflows, data pipelines - that integrate with customers' existing infrastructure and regulatory environments.
  • Turn early wins into repeatable patterns. The best of what you build ships to every Collate customer. What you discover in the field directly shapes what gets built next - you're a core feedback loop between customers and the product team.
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