Forward Deployed Engineer

Prudentia Sciences is the scientific intelligence layer powering life sciences deal making. We bring together expert-developed scientific diligence frameworks, AI reasoning trained on drug development, and a unified evidence base to accelerate investment in breakthrough therapies. As a trusted third party operating between buyer and seller, we help build conviction through every stage of the deal, faster. We replace fragmented workflows with a single system that surfaces what matters earlier.

Backed by GV (Google Ventures), McKesson, Iaso Ventures, Virtue, and Signal Fire — and built by people who have sat on every side of the table in life sciences deal making — we're on a mission to bring expert scientific judgment to every deal decision, at AI scale.

Our clients don't buy software in the abstract. A BD team at a top-20 pharma company, a biotech evaluating its pipeline, or an investment fund running diligence on a drug asset each arrives with its own data, its own workflows, its own security review, and its own definition of a good answer. Closing the gap between what our platform does out of the box and what that client needs this quarter is engineering work, and it's this role.

We're hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to be Prudentia's senior technical presence inside client engagements. You'll scope problems with client stakeholders, integrate our platform with their systems and data, build the configurations, workflows, and extensions that make it indispensable, and turn what you see in the field into product and platform improvements. You'll work across engineering, data, AI/ML, and the commercial team.

Forward deployed work at Prudentia sits where several demanding worlds meet:

• Sophisticated, high-stakes users: BD leaders, portfolio strategists, scientists, and investors who know the domain cold and will spot a wrong number immediately. Trust is earned one answer at a time.
• Messy enterprise reality: client data in internal systems, data rooms, spreadsheets, and licensed databases; SSO and security reviews; IT teams with their own timelines and constraints.
• AI that has to be right: applying LLMs and retrieval to clinical trial data, scientific literature, deal history, and multi-language sources, where hallucination isn't a quirk but a credibility risk.
• A product still taking shape: every engagement is a chance to decide whether something should be a one-off configuration, a reusable pattern, or a core platform feature. You'll help make that call.

You'll need to be as comfortable in a client steering meeting as you are in a pull request, and able to switch between them in the same afternoon.

Client Deployment & Integration

• Lead the technical side of client onboarding and deployment, from discovery and scoping through go-live and expansion.
• Integrate Prudentia with client systems and data: internal databases, data rooms, document repositories, licensed datasets, and identity providers, working within their security and compliance requirements.
• Build client-specific workflows, configurations, models, and extensions on top of our AWS-based platform, written to production standards rather than as throwaway scripts.

Applied AI & Data in the Field

• Apply our AI capabilities (LLMs, retrieval, extraction, scenario and risk modeling) to client-specific questions, and evaluate whether the outputs are accurate and defensible.
• Partner with the data team on onboarding new client and third-party data sources, and on the provenance and quality standards that let clients trust the results.
• Build evaluations and guardrails for client use cases so that quality is measured, not assumed.

Product Feedback Loop

• Be the field's voice in engineering and product: bring back patterns, gaps, and requests with enough technical depth that they can be acted on.
• Turn repeated one-off solutions into reusable components, templates, and platform features, contributing directly to the core codebase.
• Help decide what should be productized, what should stay configurable, and what we should say no to.

Trusted Technical Advisor

• Act as the technical point of contact for your accounts, from day-to-day users through to executive sponsors.
• Support the commercial team in pre-sales technical discovery, pilots, and proofs of value with strategic prospects.
• Help build the forward deployed playbook, and help shape the team as it grows.

Essential Qualifications

• 5+ years of software…