Forward Deployed Engineer
| Company | Chai Discovery |
|---|---|
| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, or a related field
- Proficient in Python and one additional scripting language (Bash, Go, or similar)
- 2+ years in solutions engineering, technical account management, or similar customer-facing role
- Able to translate between bench scientists, IT administrators, and Chai’s internal ML engineers
- Strong written and verbal communication; confident running remote trainings and on-site workshops
- Experience gathering requirements, scoping integrations, and delivering on tight timelines
- Skilled at debugging data-integration issues and performance bottlenecks in live environments
- Track record of documenting best practices and driving product feedback into the engineering roadmap
- Bias for action—comfortable owning ambiguous problems end-to-end
- Thrive in a fast-moving startup, adapting priorities as customer needs evolve
- Willingness to travel occasionally for key deployments or partner meetings
Responsibilities
- Be the technical face of Chai Discovery for biopharma partners
- Embed with customer teams and be the conduit between their scientific workflows and Chai technology
- Stand up systems and push through anything that blocks adoption
- Ensure that every model shipped generates real value at the bench and in silico
- Task AI models on a broad spectrum of drug development challenges
- Engage in wet-lab validation
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with bioinformatics pipelines