What are the responsibilities and job description for the Forward Deployment Engineer (Sioux Falls, SD) position at Hippocratic AI?
About Us
Hippocratic 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 Team
Reinvent 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 Role
We 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 technical
consultant, working directly with customers on-site to design and deploy AI systems into live
clinical workflows.
You will take ambiguous, high-impact problems and turn them into production-grade AI
solutions powered by LLMs, voice systems, and interoperable data platforms.
What You'll Do:
Customer-Facing Problem Solving:
Must Have:
Hippocratic 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 Team
Reinvent 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 Role
We 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 technical
consultant, working directly with customers on-site to design and deploy AI systems into live
clinical workflows.
You will take ambiguous, high-impact problems and turn them into production-grade AI
solutions 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 customers
- Translate ambiguous problems into scalable solutions
- Build and deploy AI systems, including RAG pipelines and multi-agent workflows
- Develop real-time conversational AI systems
- Work with HL7 v2, FHIR, REST APIs, and X12
- Build pipelines using Python and SQL
- Own full lifecycle from design to monitoring
- Troubleshoot production issues
- Work with product, AI research, and clinical teams
- 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.
Must Have:
- 3 years in software engineering, AI/ML, or data integration
- Strong Python skills
- Experience with AI/ML systems in production
- Willingness to be deployed onsite at customer locations for extended periods
- HL7, FHIR, REST APIs experience
- Epic/Cerner experience
- LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering
- Voice AI exposure
- Cloud DevOps knowledge
- Deploy AI into real healthcare environments
- Own problems end-to-end
- Work directly with customers onsite as an embedded engineer
- Impact real patient outcomes