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Innovaccer · 5 hours ago

AI Forward Deployed Engineer Leader

Innovaccer is building a customer-embedded AI engineering organization focused on rapidly operationalizing AI inside healthcare customer environments. As an AI Forward Deployed Engineer Leader, you will build, lead, and scale a team of AI Forward Deployed Engineers who work directly with health systems, payers, and life sciences customers to design, build, and deploy agentic AI solutions on the Gravity platform.

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Responsibilities

Hire, develop, and lead a high-caliber team of AI Forward Deployed Engineers with healthcare domain depth
Define the AI FDE operating model, engagement patterns, and delivery standards for healthcare customers
Create a culture of speed, accountability, technical excellence, and patient-impact awareness
Establish clear career paths, skill expectations, and performance metrics for FDEs
Own end-to-end success of AI deployments at healthcare customers—from discovery to production
Partner directly with CIOs, CMIOs, CTOs, clinical leaders, data leaders, and operations executives
Act as the executive escalation point for complex AI delivery, data, and adoption challenges
Ensure AI solutions are clinically safe, operationally usable, and embedded in real healthcare workflows
Provide hands-on technical leadership across agentic AI architectures applied to healthcare use cases
Drive adoption of modern frameworks and patterns, including:
LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, LlamaIndex Agents, Haystack
Workflow orchestration platforms such as n8n, Temporal, Prefect, Dagster
MCP (Model Context Protocol), function calling, and tool-using agents
Ensure AI agents are designed with:
Strong guardrails and failure handling
Human-in-the-loop workflows Explainability and auditability
Healthcare-grade observability and logging
Translate customer-specific healthcare AI solutions into reusable Gravity platform capabilities
Influence the Gravity AI roadmap based on real-world healthcare deployments
Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Compliance, and Privacy teams to ensure HIPAA-aligned AI deployments
Ensure learnings from healthcare deployments are captured and upstreamed
Own success metrics for AI FDE engagements, including:
Time-to-value for healthcare customers
Adoption and usage by clinical and operational users
Stability, reliability, and data quality
Customer satisfaction (NPS/CSAT)
Drive repeatable AI deployment playbooks that scale across healthcare customers
Ensure AI delivery compounds into long-term platform value, not one-off implementations

Qualification

AI deploymentHealthcare experienceAgentic AI systemsLeadershipHealthcare data platformsSoftware engineering fundamentalsModern orchestration frameworksHealthcare data standardsExecutive presenceCustomer-facing engineeringCompliance awareness

Required

12–18+ years of experience in software engineering, applied AI, customer engineering, or platform delivery
Demonstrated healthcare experience working with health systems, payers, or life sciences organizations
Experience with clinical, operational, or analytics workflows
Experience with healthcare data platforms or health IT systems
Proven experience building and leading customer-facing engineering teams
Deep hands-on understanding of LLMs and agentic AI systems
Strong familiarity with modern agentic and orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, n8n, Temporal, etc.)
Strong software engineering fundamentals (APIs, distributed systems, cloud architectures)
Experience deploying AI solutions in production, regulated healthcare environments
Executive presence with ability to engage CIOs, CMIOs, CTOs, and healthcare executives
Ability to balance speed of execution with healthcare-grade rigor and compliance

Preferred

Experience with healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR, C-CDA, claims)
Familiarity with HIPAA, data governance, and healthcare privacy/security requirements
Experience scaling early AI solutions into repeatable healthcare platform capabilities
Background in customer-embedded engineering, applied AI, or solutions architecture roles

Benefits

Generous Paid Time Off: Recharge and relax with 22 days of fixed time off per year, in addition to company holidays—because we believe work-life balance fuels performance.
Best-in-Class Parental Leave: Spend quality time with your growing family. We offer one of the industry’s most generous parental leave policies to support you during life’s most important moments.
Recognition & Rewards: We celebrate wins—big and small. Get rewarded with monetary incentives and company-wide recognition for your impact and dedication. Your hard work won’t go unnoticed.
Comprehensive Insurance Coverage: Stay covered with medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus 100% company-paid short- and long-term disability and basic life insurance. Optional perks include discounted legal aid and pet insurance.

Company

Innovaccer

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Innovaccer provides an AI cloud platform for healthcare data management and analytics.

H1B Sponsorship

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2025 (34)
2024 (11)
2023 (7)
2022 (33)
2021 (25)
2020 (6)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$654.1M
Key Investors
Mubadala Capital VenturesTiger Global ManagementM12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
2025-01-09Series F· $275M
2025-01-09Secondary Market
2021-12-15Series E· $150M

Leadership Team

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Abhinav Shashank
Chief Executive Officer
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Kanav Hasija
Co-Founder and Board Member
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