{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"9116768d04c3101ac6cdd8a5","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/9116768d04c3101ac6cdd8a5","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/9116768d04c3101ac6cdd8a5","title":"Senior Forward Deployed Engineer","description":"Our multidisciplinary team has expertise across data science, machine learning, medicine, and biology.\nWe are a community of diverse people bringing our energy and skills to find the right treatment for every patient. Our culture is expressed through our values of curiosity, care, collaboration, and creativity.\nLocation\nUK; Germany\nEmployment Type\nFull time\nLocation Type\nRemote\nDepartment\nR&TECH\nAbout us\nOwkin is an AI company on a mission to solve the complexity of biology. It is building the first Biology Super Intelligence (BASI) by combining powerful biological large language models, multimodal patient data, and agentic software. At the heart of this system is Owkin K, an AI copilot and its new LLM fine-tuned on biology called Owkin Zero, used by researchers, clinicians, and drug developers to better understand biology, validate scientific hypotheses, and deliver better diagnostics and therapies faster.\nThis position is remote and based in the UK or Germany.\nPlease submit your CV in English\nAbout the role:\nWe are seeking exceptional Senior Forward Deployed Engineers to work at the intersection of AI, software systems, and biology. In this role, you will partner directly with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to solve high-impact problems by designing, building, and deploying production-grade solutions on top of our agentic AI platform, Owkin K. This is a deeply hands‑on engineering role: you will write code, build integrations, design system architectures, and rapidly prototype new capabilities that bring advanced AI into real scientific workflows. A significant portion of this work will be conducted at the customer’s premises. You will collaborate with internal domain experts to design and deliver together on the client expectations. You will also help shape the roadmap of our product by distilling insights from the field back into the platform.\nThis is an opportunity to set the standard for how the team operates, and contribute to the growth of more junior engineers. in a dynamic environment, all while learning from experienced team members with diverse, interdisciplinary backgrounds, and contributing to turning frontier research work into reliable, deployable solutions.\nYou will operate across three core dimensions:\nBuild real systems: Design, implement, and deploy production-grade AI systems on top of Owkin K. You will write code, build integrations, design data pipelines and APIs, and turn ambiguous problems into reliable software used in critical scientific and operational workflows.\nSolve problems with users: Work directly with engineers, data scientists, biologists and clinicians from our customers: leading pharma and biotech companies, as well as within Owkin. You will translate ambiguous scientific and operational challenges into concrete software solutions, rapidly prototyping, iterating with users, and delivering results that have measurable impact.\nDeploy in the real world: Integrate solutions into large, complex, and regulated organizations. You will work with diverse datasets, existing systems, and multiple stakeholders to ensure that the tools you build are reliable, scalable, and actively used in production.\nIn particular, you will:\nEmbed deeply with external customers to solve high-leverage problems by customizing and extending Owkin’s agentic platform K;\nDesign, build, and deploy tailored solutions on top of Owkin K, guiding them from conception through final delivery;\nDrive rapid prototyping and iteration to validate solutions early and frequently;\nBalance scope, speed, and quality, adapting plans to ensure successful delivery;\nAct as a technical cornerstone for the team, championing best practices, setting high engineering standards, helping others grow and mentor more junior FDEs;\nCommunicate clearly across technical and non-technical stakeholders to align expectations;\nCollaborate with Customer Success Managers, Domain Experts, Product and Engineering teams to guarantee effective delivery, client satisfaction, and sustained adoption of Owkin’s product;\nTurn proven patterns into reusable, scalable components, tools, and playbooks;\nBridge the gap between field realities and product strategy - bringing structured, actionable insight feedback that drives roadmap direction\nAbout you\nAbove all, we seek curious individuals who are driven to learn through hands‑on experience and who embrace a strong bias for action. In addition to this, the following skills are required:\nStrong engineering background: 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a focus on backend systems\nFluent in Python and modern engineering tools and coding co‑pilots: write clean, production‑grade code, drive architectural decisions, lead technical design discussions\nProven track record leading software development at scale in production\nExperience working with LLMs and agentic AI frameworks;\nAbility to simplify complexity and make fast, sound decisions under time pressure;\nCommunicate effectively across diverse audiences: technical teams, product managers and non‑technical stakeholders. Adapt language and detail to ensure clarity and alignment;\nThrive in fast‑evolving environments by staying flexible, embracing ambiguity, and proactively driving progress despite incomplete information.\nCandidates not meeting all criteria, but who can demonstrate exceptional skill in key areas, are invited to apply.\nProven experience building and deploying on cloud platforms\nUnderstanding of the drug development pipeline and related scientific workflows.\nFull stack experience\nFamiliarity with biostatistics, computational biology, or medical imaging\nWhat we offer\nFriendly and informal working environment\nOpportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds\nRecruitment Process & Security\nPlease complete the form and submit your CV.\nOwkin is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.\nOwkin is a great place to work. As a coveted workplace we are, unfortunately, vulnerable to recruitment phishing scams. We urge all job seekers and candidates to be wary of potential scams. Most of these have individuals posing as representatives of prominent companies, including Owkin, with the aim of obtaining personal, sensitive, or financial information from applicants. These scams prey upon an individual’s desire to obtain a job and can sometimes “feel” like a genuine recruitment process. Some red flags are identified below. Should you encounter a recruitment process that claims to be for Owkin but is not consistent with the below, please do not provide any personal or financial information:\nLegitimate Owkin recruitment processes include communication with candidates through recognized professional networks, such as LinkedIn.\nCommunication is always through an official Owkin email address (from the @owkin.com domain), over the phone or through our applicant tracking system (Greenhouse).\nThe Owkin talent team do use platforms such as LinkedIn and Job Teaser, however if you have any concern or doubt about this contact, please ask for them to send an email from @Owkin.com .\nThe Owkin talent team will not solicit personal data from candidates during the application phase including, but not limited to, date of birth, social security numbers, or bank account information;\nLegitimate Owkin interviews may be conducted over the phone, in person, or via an approved enterprise videoconferencing service (Google Meets). They will not occur via Signal, Telegram or Messenger\nOwkin offers of employment are based on merit and only extended once a candidate has interviewed with members of the talent and hiring team. Offers will be extended both verbally and in written format.\nIf you think that you have been a victim of fraud,\nCheck the identity of the talent team on LinkedIn\nWe organize all-company offsites twice a year, regular team offsites, learning sessions with external experts and internal hackathons.\n2/7\nFlexible working options\nAll Owkinautes benefit from flexible, office, hybrid and remote working options to suit personal and business needs.\n3/7\nExperience the world\nAll Owkinautes enjoy the opportunity to work from anywhere in the world for up to four weeks per year, subject to approval.\n4/7\nTime to recharge\nOwkinautes benefit from 35 days vacation, plus public holidays – wherever you are based.\n5/7\nEnough time with your family\nWe offer a minimum of 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers and eight weeks for secondary caregivers, regardless of gender.\n6/7\nPrioritize your health\nHealth is our focus, starting with our Owkinautes. We provide private healthcare coverage, tailored to your country.\n7/7\nSpaces to house Owkin's collective intelligence\nHigh-performance spaces with distinctive personality to accommodate the intellectual and creative potential of Owkin's team. \n#J-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Owkin","rawCompany":"owkin","city":"Beaver","state":"OH","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-05-07T03:29:29.171Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"17-2199.00","title":"Engineers, All Other","slug":"engineers-all-other"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541714","title":"Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)","slug":"research-and-development-in-biotechnology-except-nanobiotechnology"},{"code":"541715","title":"Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)","slug":"research-and-development-in-the-physical-engineering-and-life-sciences-except-nanotechnology-and-biotechnology"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Forward Deployed Engineer","description":"Our multidisciplinary team has expertise across data science, machine learning, medicine, and biology.\nWe are a community of diverse people bringing our energy and skills to find the right treatment for every patient. Our culture is expressed through our values of curiosity, care, collaboration, and creativity.\nLocation\nUK; Germany\nEmployment Type\nFull time\nLocation Type\nRemote\nDepartment\nR&TECH\nAbout us\nOwkin is an AI company on a mission to solve the complexity of biology. It is building the first Biology Super Intelligence (BASI) by combining powerful biological large language models, multimodal patient data, and agentic software. At the heart of this system is Owkin K, an AI copilot and its new LLM fine-tuned on biology called Owkin Zero, used by researchers, clinicians, and drug developers to better understand biology, validate scientific hypotheses, and deliver better diagnostics and therapies faster.\nThis position is remote and based in the UK or Germany.\nPlease submit your CV in English\nAbout the role:\nWe are seeking exceptional Senior Forward Deployed Engineers to work at the intersection of AI, software systems, and biology. In this role, you will partner directly with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to solve high-impact problems by designing, building, and deploying production-grade solutions on top of our agentic AI platform, Owkin K. This is a deeply hands‑on engineering role: you will write code, build integrations, design system architectures, and rapidly prototype new capabilities that bring advanced AI into real scientific workflows. A significant portion of this work will be conducted at the customer’s premises. You will collaborate with internal domain experts to design and deliver together on the client expectations. You will also help shape the roadmap of our product by distilling insights from the field back into the platform.\nThis is an opportunity to set the standard for how the team operates, and contribute to the growth of more junior engineers. in a dynamic environment, all while learning from experienced team members with diverse, interdisciplinary backgrounds, and contributing to turning frontier research work into reliable, deployable solutions.\nYou will operate across three core dimensions:\nBuild real systems: Design, implement, and deploy production-grade AI systems on top of Owkin K. You will write code, build integrations, design data pipelines and APIs, and turn ambiguous problems into reliable software used in critical scientific and operational workflows.\nSolve problems with users: Work directly with engineers, data scientists, biologists and clinicians from our customers: leading pharma and biotech companies, as well as within Owkin. You will translate ambiguous scientific and operational challenges into concrete software solutions, rapidly prototyping, iterating with users, and delivering results that have measurable impact.\nDeploy in the real world: Integrate solutions into large, complex, and regulated organizations. You will work with diverse datasets, existing systems, and multiple stakeholders to ensure that the tools you build are reliable, scalable, and actively used in production.\nIn particular, you will:\nEmbed deeply with external customers to solve high-leverage problems by customizing and extending Owkin’s agentic platform K;\nDesign, build, and deploy tailored solutions on top of Owkin K, guiding them from conception through final delivery;\nDrive rapid prototyping and iteration to validate solutions early and frequently;\nBalance scope, speed, and quality, adapting plans to ensure successful delivery;\nAct as a technical cornerstone for the team, championing best practices, setting high engineering standards, helping others grow and mentor more junior FDEs;\nCommunicate clearly across technical and non-technical stakeholders to align expectations;\nCollaborate with Customer Success Managers, Domain Experts, Product and Engineering teams to guarantee effective delivery, client satisfaction, and sustained adoption of Owkin’s product;\nTurn proven patterns into reusable, scalable components, tools, and playbooks;\nBridge the gap between field realities and product strategy - bringing structured, actionable insight feedback that drives roadmap direction\nAbout you\nAbove all, we seek curious individuals who are driven to learn through hands‑on experience and who embrace a strong bias for action. In addition to this, the following skills are required:\nStrong engineering background: 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a focus on backend systems\nFluent in Python and modern engineering tools and coding co‑pilots: write clean, production‑grade code, drive architectural decisions, lead technical design discussions\nProven track record leading software development at scale in production\nExperience working with LLMs and agentic AI frameworks;\nAbility to simplify complexity and make fast, sound decisions under time pressure;\nCommunicate effectively across diverse audiences: technical teams, product managers and non‑technical stakeholders. Adapt language and detail to ensure clarity and alignment;\nThrive in fast‑evolving environments by staying flexible, embracing ambiguity, and proactively driving progress despite incomplete information.\nCandidates not meeting all criteria, but who can demonstrate exceptional skill in key areas, are invited to apply.\nProven experience building and deploying on cloud platforms\nUnderstanding of the drug development pipeline and related scientific workflows.\nFull stack experience\nFamiliarity with biostatistics, computational biology, or medical imaging\nWhat we offer\nFriendly and informal working environment\nOpportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds\nRecruitment Process & Security\nPlease complete the form and submit your CV.\nOwkin is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.\nOwkin is a great place to work. As a coveted workplace we are, unfortunately, vulnerable to recruitment phishing scams. We urge all job seekers and candidates to be wary of potential scams. Most of these have individuals posing as representatives of prominent companies, including Owkin, with the aim of obtaining personal, sensitive, or financial information from applicants. These scams prey upon an individual’s desire to obtain a job and can sometimes “feel” like a genuine recruitment process. Some red flags are identified below. Should you encounter a recruitment process that claims to be for Owkin but is not consistent with the below, please do not provide any personal or financial information:\nLegitimate Owkin recruitment processes include communication with candidates through recognized professional networks, such as LinkedIn.\nCommunication is always through an official Owkin email address (from the @owkin.com domain), over the phone or through our applicant tracking system (Greenhouse).\nThe Owkin talent team do use platforms such as LinkedIn and Job Teaser, however if you have any concern or doubt about this contact, please ask for them to send an email from @Owkin.com .\nThe Owkin talent team will not solicit personal data from candidates during the application phase including, but not limited to, date of birth, social security numbers, or bank account information;\nLegitimate Owkin interviews may be conducted over the phone, in person, or via an approved enterprise videoconferencing service (Google Meets). They will not occur via Signal, Telegram or Messenger\nOwkin offers of employment are based on merit and only extended once a candidate has interviewed with members of the talent and hiring team. Offers will be extended both verbally and in written format.\nIf you think that you have been a victim of fraud,\nCheck the identity of the talent team on LinkedIn\nWe organize all-company offsites twice a year, regular team offsites, learning sessions with external experts and internal hackathons.\n2/7\nFlexible working options\nAll Owkinautes benefit from flexible, office, hybrid and remote working options to suit personal and business needs.\n3/7\nExperience the world\nAll Owkinautes enjoy the opportunity to work from anywhere in the world for up to four weeks per year, subject to approval.\n4/7\nTime to recharge\nOwkinautes benefit from 35 days vacation, plus public holidays – wherever you are based.\n5/7\nEnough time with your family\nWe offer a minimum of 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers and eight weeks for secondary caregivers, regardless of gender.\n6/7\nPrioritize your health\nHealth is our focus, starting with our Owkinautes. We provide private healthcare coverage, tailored to your country.\n7/7\nSpaces to house Owkin's collective intelligence\nHigh-performance spaces with distinctive personality to accommodate the intellectual and creative potential of Owkin's team. \n#J-18808-Ljbffr","datePosted":"2026-05-07T03:29:29.171Z","dateModified":"2026-05-07T03:29:29.171Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Owkin","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Beaver","addressRegion":"OH","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"9116768d04c3101ac6cdd8a5"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/9116768d04c3101ac6cdd8a5"}}