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You own client deployments end-to-end, from scoping through go-live, acting as the primary point of contact for senior client stakeholders.\n\nBuild and manage client relationships: understand challenges, align priorities, and become the trusted partner executives rely on to scale their AI adoption.\n\nDesign, build, and evolve AI agents that deliver optimal claims outcomes, including prompt engineering, model integration, and blitz prototyping using AI‑assisted coding tools.\n\nWork with applied AI on a daily basis. You scope and develop new features that allow our customers to scale while consistently improving claims results.\n\nHelp integrate our product into client environments, working hands‑on with their tech teams on APIs and systems.\n\nCoordinate with our core platform team to ensure smooth delivery and improve the product with actionable insights.\n\nCapture and share best practices in internal playbooks to scale Forward Deployed Engineering.\n\nYou will thrive if you\n\nThink and operate like a founder. You take ownership of problems, move fast, and figure it out, whether that means jumping on a client call or writing a quick integration.\n\nHave 2+ years in a role combining technical depth with client‑facing ownership (e.g. agent engineering, forward deployed engineering, growth engineer, or founding engineer/founder).\n\nHave a solid technical foundation: comfort with Python, APIs, cloud platforms, and modern AI/ML tooling. 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