Cohere Health
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer
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About the role
- We are seeking a Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer to join our Forward Deployed Engineering team at Cohere Health.
Responsibilities
- Design system architectures that bridge customer IT environments with Cohere's platform, making key architectural decisions that balance customer constraints with platform capabilities
- Produce high-quality technical artifacts including integration designs, architecture diagrams, data mappings, API implementation guides, and operational runbooks
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Solutions Architecture, and Customer Success teams to drive successful go-live outcomes and mentor junior team members
- Deep expertise in data architecture and integration patterns: data modeling, transformation logic, schema design, and enterprise integration patterns (middleware, message queues, event-driven architectures)
- Design Exercises
Requirements
- 6-10+ years of software engineering experience with a strong backend/systems focus
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud platforms (Lambda, ECS, RDS, S3, API Gateway, EventBridge)
- Comfort with ambiguity and high agency: ability to define problems, propose solutions, and execute independently
- In accordance with state applicable laws, Cohere is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role.
Nice to have
- Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools is a plus
- Experience in regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC2, HITRUST) is a plus
- Direct experience with payer-side technology: prior authorization platforms, utilization management systems, or claims processing is a plus
- AI/ML integration experience: working with LLMs, embedding AI capabilities into production systems, or ML model deployment is a plus
- Database expertise: SQL and NoSQL (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB), query optimization, and data modeling is a plus
- Identity and access management (IAM) experience: SSO implementations, federated identity, RBAC, and multi-tenancy security patterns is a plus
Compensation
- The salary range for this position is $154,000 to $175,000 annually; as part of a total benefits package which includes health insurance, 401k and bonus.
Benefits
- ๐ฉบ Medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
- ๐ 401K retirement plan with company match; flexible spending and health savings account
- ๐๏ธ Flex Time Off + company holidays
- ๐ถ Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave
- The salary range for this position is $154,000 to $175,000 annually; as part of a total benefits package which includes health insurance, 401k and bonus.
- About Cohere Health:
- Cohere Health's clinical intelligence platform delivers AI-powered solutions that streamline access to quality care by improving payer-provider collaboration, cost containment, and healthcare economics.
- Cohere Health works with over 660,000 providers and handles over 12 million prior authorization requests annually.
- Its responsible AI auto-approves up to 90% of requests for millions of health plan members.
Company info
- Opportunity Overview: We are seeking a Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer to join our Forward Deployed Engineering team at Cohere Health.
- We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all.
- Own end-to-end technical integration design and execution for enterprise customers, from initial scoping through production deployment, serving as the primary technical authority throughout
- Lead technical discovery, scoping, and proof-of-concept work during pre-sales cycles, creating technical proposals and estimates to validate feasibility for prospective customers
- Build reusable integration patterns and templates that scale across customers, and continuously identify opportunities to improve platform capabilities based on implementation learnings
Equal opportunity
- Statement:
- Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all. To us, it's personal.
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