Forward Deployed Engineer
Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$120k - $200kFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Medplum is open source API-first EHR. The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) is a founding member of the team focused on helping customers derive value from the Medplum platform, shaping team culture, and driving revenue through enterprise implementations and integrations.
Responsibilities
- Reduce Time to Value for Medplum Implementations: conduct enterprise workshops and trainings, troubleshoot customer implementations, provide technical guidance and create documentation to help customers unlock value.
- Serve as a Strategic Thought Partner: build relationships with customer executives and guide their EHR strategy, operations, and execution.
- Grow Existing Customer Value: identify opportunities within existing accounts and expand use cases through education of the art of the possible.
- Develop Enterprise Features and Integrations: write code for core healthcare workflows (e-prescribe, labs, health networks, billing, benefits check, etc.).
- Provide Feedback to Product and Engineering: capture customer issues and prioritize features for the roadmap.
- Set the Tone for the Solutions Engineering Team: establish tools and benchmarks for team success as a founding member.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role (sales, customer success, or technical consulting)
- Full stack TypeScript experience
- Ability to work autonomously with customers and manage time effectively
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
- Relationship-building skills with technical and business leaders at customer organizations
- Based in the SF Bay Area with readiness for twice-weekly in-person collaboration
- US citizen or visa holder per requirement
- Bonus: experience deploying developer products and/or health tech industry experience
Skills
Required:TypeScript
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Medplum
API first electronic health record (EHR) that is open source
Medplum makes it easy to build healthcare webapps that are compliant and interoperability ready. Our open source toolkit allows healthcare providers write apps that are HIPAA compliant, SOC2 certified and FHIR native - streamlining payor connections, health system integrations and more.
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