--- title: 'AI Engineer, Healthcare at Protege' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/ai-engineer-healthcare-protege-remote-xxhc6kgyfn23' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # AI Engineer, Healthcare at Protege - **Company:** Protege - **Location:** Remote - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-31 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/protege/db2b3412-820b-415c-90df-828e8f21ab5c ## Job description Company Overview: We are building Protege to solve the biggest unmet need in AI — getting access to the right training data. The process today is time intensive, incredibly expensive, and often ends in failure. The Protege platform facilitates the secure, efficient, and privacy-centric exchange of AI training data. Solving AI’s data problem is a generational opportunity. We’re backed by world-class investors and already powering partnerships with some of the most ambitious teams in AI. The company that succeeds will be one of the largest in AI — and in tech. We’re a lean, fast-moving, high-trust team of builders who are obsessed with velocity and impact. Our culture is built for people who thrive on ambiguity, own outcomes, and want to shape the future of data and AI. ## About the Role Protege is hiring AI Engineers to join our healthcare team. This is a hands-on role focused on end-to-end ownership of customer engagements, from initial feasibility through delivery and post-launch support. You'll be part of a team that works at the crossroads of customer needs, healthcare data, and our platform. You’ll partner closely with our healthcare GM, Solutions Leads, and DataLab to navigate customer requirements. Within the team, FDEs take different shapes of engagement. Some work across many healthcare deals and customers, while others are dedicated to specific strategic accounts. Every FDE is meant to build the last-mile work that makes deals successful, surface the patterns that should become product, and continue to develop the technical depth that makes us effective in healthcare. This role is ideal for engineers who want to own customer outcomes as it sits at the center of a vertical that is growing extremely rapidly. You'll be managing customer relationships, technical delivery, and architecture decisions at the same time, across multiple deals at a time. The pace is fast, the ambiguity is real, and when deals are live, availability outside standard hours is part of the job. If this type of environment and growth excites you, there could be a strong fit. If this is not something you are actively looking for, this likely is not the correct role. ## What You’ll Do Own healthcare customer engagements end-to-end - Lead customer-facing technical work from initial scoping through implementation, delivery, and post-delivery support. - Become the primary technical partner for assigned healthcare customers. - Build trusted relationships with customer engineering and technical teams. - Manage multiple concurrent healthcare engagements while maintaining delivery quality and customer confidence. Build custom solutions for complex customer needs - Develop and deploy integrations, data transformations, and applications that solve customer-specific challenges. - Navigate customer technical environments and adapt Protege’s platform capabilities to real-world deployment constraints. - Translate ambiguous customer needs into clear technical plans, delivery milestones, and practical implementation paths. Bridge customer needs with product and platform capabilities - Identify where customer-specific work points to repeatable product opportunities. - Surface actionable product feedback based on implementation patterns, customer pain points, and delivery blockers. - Partner with product and engineering to turn bespoke solutions into reusable platform capabilities where appropriate. Operate with strong healthcare data judgment - Handle healthcare data environments with appropriate care, including PHI and regulatory considerations. - Make sound technical decisions in complex, regulated settings. - Communicate clearly with customers and internal teams about tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and implementation choices. Create reusable delivery leverage - Contribute playbooks, tooling, templates, and best practices that improve future healthcare deal execution. - Document repeatable patterns and lessons from customer engagements. - Help Protege move faster over time by turning one-off implementation work into reusable delivery assets. What Success Looks Like 30 days: Support an active deal The FDE has built context on Protege’s healthcare customer motion, platform capabilities, common implementation needs, and regulated data considerations. They are supporting an active customer engagement with guidance. 60 days: Lead a solo engagement The FDE is independently leading a scoped customer engagement or technical workstream, building trust with customer technical teams, and delivering against customer requirements and timelines. 90 days: Own multiple concurrent engagements The FDE is independently managing multiple healthcare customer engagements, contributing reusable playbooks or tooling, and surfacing product feedback that helps convert bespoke implementation patterns into scalable capabilities. ## What You Bring - Experience in software engineering, solution architecture, forward deployed engineering, technical implementation, or a similar customer-facing technical role. - Ability to own customer engagements from scoping through delivery and support. - Strong technical execution across custom solutions, integrations, data transformations, and/or applications. - Comfort operating in healthcare data environments, including sensitivity to PHI and regulatory considerations. - Strong customer-facing communication and ability to build trust with technical stakeholders. - Ability to bridge customer needs with product and platform capabilities. - High ownership, adaptability, and comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments. - Bias toward creating reusable systems, playbooks, tooling, and best practices rather than solving the same problem repeatedly. Protege Values Pass the Loved Ones' Test We act with integrity and do the right thing - especially when it's hard and no one is watching. Always Find a Way We are resourceful, resilient builders who solve hard problems and push through obstacles. Go Fast and Grow Fast Velocity matters. We move with urgency, learn quickly, and continuously improve as individuals and as a company. Practice Kindness and Candor We communicate directly and respectfully, building trust through honest feedback and genuine care for one another. Deliver Together We win as one team. Collaboration, accountability, and shared ownership drive our success. Own the Outcome. Hone the Craft. We take pride in our work, sweat the details, and continuously raise the bar for excellence. ## About Protege ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Protege is a platform for the secure exchange of proprietary, real-world data between data holders and AI developers, covering the full AI lifecycle from pre-training to evaluation. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; $90M total funding) - **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Bobby Samuels (CEO), Travis May (Chairman), Engy Ziedan (Chief Scientific Officer), Richard Ho (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Data Infrastructure and Analytics / AI Training Data Marketplace - **Target Customers**: B2B – AI model builders (startups to enterprises) and data holders (healthcare, media, audio, video, physical intelligence companies) - **Mission**: “Building a world where the right data powers AI for the good of humanity” – curating and connecting high-quality data with expertise while protecting and fairly compensating data holders. ## Products & Services - **Protege Platform**: A marketplace and data infrastructure that enables secure, governed exchange of proprietary datasets for AI training. - **Pre-Training Datasets**: Massive, diverse real-world datasets across industries for foundation model training. - **Post-Training & Fine-Tuning Data**: Narrower, domain-specific datasets for supervised training and human feedback. - **Evaluation & Benchmarks**: Contaminated‑free, real‑world test sets (e.g., Protege Evaluation Datasets and Benchmarks for Healthcare AI) to measure model performance. - **Data Partner Revenue Program**: Monetization channel for data holders with provenance and rights protections. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$90M** across three Series A extensions (Seed: $10M led by CRV; Series A: $25M led by Andreessen Horowitz, $25M led by Footwork, $30M extension led by a16z) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz, CRV, Footwork; acquired Calliope Networks (Dec 2024) - **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 63 employees (+203.7% YoY); operations in 6 countries; rapid hiring (14 open positions); active expansion into healthcare, audio, video, and spatial intelligence verticals ## Competitive Advantages - **Trust & Governance**: Built‑in rights protections, provenance tracking, and security for data holders – a key differentiator in an era of IP and compliance concerns. - **Domain Expertise**: Team of experienced startup operators and scientists with deep industry knowledge (healthcare, media, etc.). - **Curation + Scale**: Combines curated, real‑world datasets with expert oversight, bridging the gap between raw data and AI‑ready training sets. - **Early Traction**: Already serving customers across multiple high‑value domains (healthcare, media, audio, motion capture). ## Strategic Focus - **Vertical Expansion**: Hiring General Managers for healthcare, video, audio, and spatial/physical intelligence to deepen domain‑specific offerings. - **Benchmarks & Evaluation**: Developing sector‑specific evaluation datasets (e.g., healthcare) to become the standard for model testing. - **Platform Growth**: Scaling the two‑sided marketplace to attract more data holders and AI builders globally. ## Why Work Here - **Remote‑First, Locally‑Connected**: Default remote with regular company‑sponsored off‑sites for collaboration and team building. - **Competitive Pay & Equity**: Premium market salaries and ownership through equity, aligning employee growth with company success. - **Comprehensive Benefits**: Full coverage for medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and dependents. - **High‑Trust Time Off**: Flexible, impact‑driven time off policy. - **Culture & Values**: Emphasis on ownership, delivering together, ethical impact, and outcome‑focused work. Team includes early employees from Datavant, Verana Health, dbt Labs, Facebook, and Mastercard. - **Growth Opportunity**: Rapidly scaling startup with clear path to leadership roles; active hiring in engineering, research, sales, and operations. ## Sources 1. [Protege Website](https://www.withprotege.ai/) 2. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/withprotege) 3. [Protege Careers Page](https://www.withprotege.ai/careers) 4. [Protege People Page](https://www.withprotege.ai/people) 5. 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