Forward Deployed Engineer (Data)
Why Clarium?
Our mission is to accelerate healthcare transformation through our AI-powered platform. We strive toward a future where hospitals are at the cutting edge of technology, operations and efficiency. Healthcare workers are inundated with endless tasks, manual processes and often unintuitive tools. Clarium is transforming healthcare by empowering providers with AI-powered software with intelligent workflow automation and actionable insights.
We envision a future where all hospitals leverage our collaborative data platform to automate their daily operational and administrative tasks, only surfacing high complexity issues that truly require their expertise.
We're backed by some of the biggest and most innovative investors in the world including: Northzone, General Catalyst, AlleyCorp, 1984 Ventures, Alumni Ventures, and others.
Role Overview
We’re hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (Data) to own the technical side of customer data integrations for hospital systems and their suppliers. This role is for a strong, hands-on engineer who enjoys working directly with customers, navigating ambiguous systems, and owning production data workflows end to end.
You’ll work directly with customers to understand their systems and bring integrations into production, designing reliable ingestion and transformation workflows along the way. You’ll partner closely with data engineers and product managers to iterate on customer data feeds that power end-user features, ensure integrations are correct and production-ready, and build reusable connectors and internal tools that make future integrations faster and more scalable.
This role goes beyond traditional backend engineering. Success requires comfort with ambiguity, unfamiliar systems, and frequent customer interaction, along with full ownership of production systems. If you enjoy building robust systems and staying close to the customer problems they solve, this role is a strong fit.
Required Qualifications
4+ years of professional experience in an engineering role
Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
Experience building and operating data pipelines
Experience with strong engineering practices including building production grade systems, robust ETL pipelines, CI/CD, and monitoring
Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms
Ability to work directly with clients to gather requirements, troubleshoot, and deliver integrations
Nice-to-Haves
Experience integrating with
ERP systems such as Workday, Oracle Cloud, Infor Lawson, PeopleSoft, or similar
Inventory Management systems such as ParEx and TecSys
EHR systems such as Epic or Cerner
Experience in healthcare
Experience in supply chain operations
What Makes You a Great Fit
Agency — You’re a self-starter who’s comfortable with ambiguous requirements and unfamiliar systems, and you know how to unblock yourself when things get messy.
Ownership — You take responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks, and you jump in where needed to support customer integrations and the broader team, even when it’s not “your job.”
Customer-facing mindset — You enjoy working directly with customers, leading technical discussions, and translating real-world workflows into reliable data integrations.
Collaborative — You thrive in a close-knit data team, value low-ego collaboration, and work effectively with data engineers, product managers, and customers.
Pragmatic — You make thoughtful technical tradeoffs, balancing immediate customer needs with long-term scalability and maintainability.
Operational excellence — You value production quality, including testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and building systems that are reliable and maintainable in the real world.
Note: This role is not a fit for engineers seeking purely backend or internal-only work, analysts or BI-focused roles without experience building production systems, or those who prefer working independently over close, team-first collaboration.
What You Get At Clarium
Incentive Stock Options proportionate to salary
Fully remote work
Unlimited PTO
Top-tier health, vision, and dental benefits
Our Hiring Process
Apply
We read every application and make our best effort to reply to everyone. Please read the job description carefully. We love when people strive but if you do not meet more than 75% of the requirements, we are less likely to respond. Please take your time on any application questions—we view them as your opportunity to stand out.
Exploratory Interview
Goal: High-level qualifications & mutual fit. 30-minute video interview with a team member who knows the product and role well. We make sure to preserve 10 minutes for your questions.
Hiring Manager Interview
Goal: Deeper understanding of team needs and your qualifications. 30-minute video interview with the hiring manager.
Technical Interview and System Design Interview
Goal: Deep dive into your skills, knowledge, and problem solving. 1-hour technical exercise using Python and SQL as well as a 1-hour System Design Exercise. This is a realistic interview with no abstract puzzles. We will send you information in advance and do a live exercise together. Screen sharing is expected.
Values and CEO Interview:
Goal: Meet more of the team and understand what values are important to you. 30-minute video interview with the manager of the role to feel comfortable with each other one final time and 30 minutes to get to know our CEO.