Forward Deployment Engineer (Sioux Falls, SD)

About UsHippocratic AI is the leading generative AI company in healthcare. We have the only system that can have safe, autonomous, clinical conversations with patients. We have trained our own LLMs as part of our Polaris constellation, resulting in a system with over 99.9% accuracy.Why Join Our TeamReinvent healthcare with AI that puts safety first. We're building the world's first healthcare-only, safety-focused LLM - a breakthrough platform designed to transform patient outcomes at a global scale. This is category creation.Work with the people shaping the future. Hippocratic AI was co-founded by CEO Munjal Shah and a team of physicians, hospital leaders, AI pioneers, and researchers from institutions like El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.Backed by the world's leading healthcare and AI investors. We recently raised a $126M Series C at a $3.5B valuation, led by Avenir Growth, bringing total funding to $404M with participation from CapitalG, General Catalyst, a16z, Kleiner Perkins, Premji Invest, UHS, Cincinnati Children's, WellSpan Health, John Doerr, Rick Klausner, and others.Build alongside the best in healthcare and AI. Join experts who've spent their careers improving care, advancing science, and building world-changing technologies - ensuring our platform is powerful, trusted, and truly transformative.About the RoleWe are seeking an Forward Deployment Engineer to operate at the intersection of AI systems, healthcare data, and real-world deployment. In this role, you will be deployed onsite at a customer location, serving as Hippocratic AI's embedded technical presence.This is not a traditional engineering role. You will act as a builder, operator, and technicalconsultant, working directly with customers on-site to design and deploy AI systems into liveclinical workflows.You will take ambiguous, high-impact problems and turn them into production-grade AIsolutions powered by LLMs, voice systems, and interoperable data platforms.What You'll Do:Customer-Facing Problem Solving:Serve as the technical point of contact for healthcare customersTranslate ambiguous problems into scalable solutionsAI System Design & Deployment:Build and deploy AI systems, including RAG pipelines and multi-agent workflowsDevelop real-time conversational AI systemsHealthcare Data Integration:Work with HL7 v2, FHIR, REST APIs, and X12Build pipelines using Python and SQLEnd-to-End Ownership:Own full lifecycle from design to monitoringTroubleshoot production issuesCross-Functional Collaboration:Work with product, AI research, and clinical teamsLocation:This is an onsite role based in Sioux Falls, SD, with five days per week at the client site and occasional travel to Hippocratic AI headquarters (Palo Alto, CA) for strategic planning and team sessions.What You BringMust Have:3+ years in software engineering, AI/ML, or data integrationStrong Python skillsExperience with AI/ML systems in productionWillingness to be deployed onsite at customer locations for extended periodsNice-to-Have:HL7, FHIR, REST APIs experienceEpic/Cerner experienceLLMs, RAG, prompt engineeringVoice AI exposureCloud + DevOps knowledgeWhat Makes This Role Unique:Deploy AI into real healthcare environmentsOwn problems end-to-endWork directly with customers onsite as an embedded engineerImpact real patient outcomes