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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer (BioPharma/Lifescience) at Condor Software'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer (BioPharma/Lifescience) at Condor Software

- **Company:** Condor Software
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/condor-software/0de72ab5-1c2b-45e6-95d7-977ccce308eb

## Job description

## ABOUT CONDOR

Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars are invested to discover and develop new therapies, yet the financial infrastructure behind that work has not kept pace. Clinical operations and finance live in disconnected worlds, forcing teams to make high-stakes decisions using fragmented tools and static data.

Condor exists to change that. We are a system of action, building the financial intelligence layer that will power the next era of clinical development. Condor connects clinical operations, vendor activity, and financial signals into a single, real-time intelligence layer, giving R&D and finance leaders true command over how their organizations operate. Our platform is pharma-native, AI-driven infrastructure — built around an operation layer of guarded, audited business logic, a bitemporal source of truth, and AI agents that reason over real clinical and financial data. We are a high-growth Series A company backed by Insight Partners, Felicis, and 645 Ventures, growing rapidly with Top 200 biopharma companies.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you sit at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer delivery. Embedded directly with biopharma customers, you will learn their clinical and financial workflows firsthand to design and deploy high-impact, AI-powered solutions.

This is an active engineering role, not solutions consulting. When you spot a problem in the field, you solve it by opening PRs against our core codebase—building production-grade capability rather than throwaway prototypes. Working alongside product and customer leadership, you are the technical authority in the room, driving rapid execution with zero translation layer.

Your insights from field deployments directly feed back into our core platform architecture and product roadmap. It is a highly autonomous, hands-on opportunity for an engineer who thrives in high-stakes environments and wants to shape the future of biopharma infrastructure.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Embed directly with biopharma customers to understand their workflows, constraints, and definition of success across both finance (accruals, forecasting, reconciliation) and clinical operations (vendor activity, study execution, operational data)
- Uncover and validate new use cases in the field to the granular details, including clinical operations problems adjacent to finance and clinical operations and turn the most valuable ones into product
- Design, build, and deploy AI-driven solutions to real operational problems — fast, in days rather than quarters
- Turn ambiguous customer requirements into technical architecture and ship them into Condor’s core platform, not one-off prototypes
- Build and maintain production systems: Django services and APIs, agent workflows on AWS Bedrock, data integrations, monitoring, and feedback loops
- Build customer-facing systems end-to-end—from UI to backend to data to AI—to surface a capability fully.
- Own deployments end-to-end, from initial scoping through launch and iteration
- Operate in high-stakes environments where reliability, speed, accuracy and judgment matter — this is financial data customers close their books on
- Identify patterns across deployments and codify field work back into core product and platform capability
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering to influence roadmap, abstractions, and long-term system design
- This role involves occasional travel to customer locations on an as-needed basis.

## WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

- Has done this before. You’ve held a forward-deployed, founding-engineer, or similar zero-to-one customer-facing role, and turned messy real-world requirements into shipped software.
- 4–10 years of software engineering experience with real depth — you’ve built and owned end-to-end production systems, not just features inside a large existing one.
- Builds end-to-end systems quickly with AI. You use LLMs and agent frameworks (function calling / tool use, RAG, evals) to go from problem to working system fast, and you own their reliability, evaluation, and cost.
- Translates customer needs into core products. A track record of taking a customer problem and implementing the solution directly in a shared core codebase.
- Deep software engineering fundamentals. Strong proficiency in Python and Django; solid data modeling and SQL on PostgreSQL; comfort building on AWS (Bedrock, ECS/Fargate, Lambda). React for customer-facing UI is a plus.
- Strong communicator. At ease with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and credible in front of a customer.
- High ownership. Able to operate independently in a fast-changing, ambiguous environment and drive a deployment to completion.

## NICE TO HAVE

- Background from companies known for the FDE or zero-to-one model — Palantir, Anduril, Cursor, Cognition, or similar
- Experience with vector search and retrieval (Pinecone, pgvector) and graph/relationship stores (Neo4j)
- Exposure to clinical operations, biopharma R&D, financial systems, or other regulated, high-correctness data domains — or experience integrating with clinical and financial systems (ERP, CTMS, EDC, procurement, vendor feeds)
- Experience building evaluation and observability for LLM applications

## WHAT WE OFFER

- Competitive compensation and meaningful equity participation
- 100% company-paid health, dental, vision, and life insurance
- 401(k) with a 3% company match that vests immediately
- Unlimited PTO

Condor is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

## About Condor Software

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Condor Software is an AI-powered financial intelligence platform that unifies clinical, operational, and financial data for life sciences R&D teams.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A – $24M raised in March 2026, total funding $36M)
- **Headquarters**: San Diego, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Jennifer Kyle (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Life sciences/healthcare IT – financial software for biopharmaceutical R&D
- **Target customers**: B2B – CFOs, FP&A, Accounting, and Clinical Operations teams at biopharma companies
- **Mission**: “Intelligent finance for life sciences” – helping bring life-saving treatments to patients faster by eliminating inefficiencies in clinical trial finance.

## Products & Services
- **Condor Platform**: AI-powered financial intelligence layer that automatically ingests data from CROs, CTMS, ERP, EDC, procurement, and FP&A tools into a proprietary data model built for drug development economics. Covers accruals, vendor management, change order management, and a guided financial close checklist.
- **Advanced Analytics & Dynamic Scenario Suite** (launched May 2026): Customizable executive dashboards and scenario-aware forecasting that lets teams model enrollment delays or site activations without corrupting actuals, with live, shareable reports.
- **Clinical Finance AI Agents** (previewed): Automated subject‑matter experts that surface patterns, flag risks, and bridge context between clinical operations and finance, built on a clinical and financial ontology co‑developed with Big 4 firms.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private)
- **Key Metric**: Manages over $19 billion in R&D spend
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Insight Partners (led Series A), Felicis, SNR Ventures, Bramalea Partners, 645 Ventures, Prebys Ventures; co-developed with Big 4 accounting firms (KPMG, EY); trusted by Acadia Pharmaceuticals, Alumis Therapeutics, BridgeBio Pharma, Madrigal Pharmaceuticals.
- **Growth Signals**: $24M Series A closed March 2026; launched Advanced Analytics suite in May 2026; previewed AI agents; headcount growing (jobs listed on Ashby).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose-built for clinical trial complexity** – not a generic FP&A tool; connects clinical and financial data natively.
- **Co-developed with Big 4** – built‑in compliance (SOX/SOC), audit trails, and controls that meet auditor expectations.
- **Proprietary clinical finance ontology & knowledge graph** – automatically updates as protocols, enrollment, or vendor contracts change.
- **Go‑live in weeks** – customers report rapid implementation versus years of configuration for generic tools.

## Strategic Focus
- Cover the full R&D financial lifecycle: from automated close through forecasting and scenario planning to executive reporting.
- Expand AI agent capabilities to further bridge clinical operations and finance.
- Continue scaling the platform to support portfolio‑level analysis without adding headcount.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission‑driven**: “Help bring life-saving treatments to patients faster” – employees work on eliminating inefficiencies that delay therapies.
- **Built by industry veterans** – leadership team has deep experience scaling global biopharma and CRO operations ([condorsoftware.com](https://www.condorsoftware.com/company/leadership)).
- **Fast‑growing startup** – recent $24M Series A from Insight Partners signals strong traction and investment in product/team.
- **Culture**: “Built with purpose. Yours.” – emphasis on empowering innovators behind clinical breakthroughs ([condorsoftware.com](https://condorsoftware.com/company/about)).
- **Work policy**: Not explicitly disclosed; HQ in San Diego (401 West A Street) – likely hybrid/office with remote flexibility (check careers page for details).
- **Notable perks**: Enterprise‑grade engineering, AI‑first product, visibility with top biopharma customers.

## Sources
1. [condorsoftware.com](https://www.condorsoftware.com/)
2. [condorsoftware.com/about](https://condorsoftware.com/company/about)
3. [condorsoftware.com/leadership](https://www.condorsoftware.com/company/leadership)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/condor-software)
5. [PRNewswire (May 2026)](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/condor-software-launches-advanced-analytics-and-dynamic-scenario-suite-302487006.html)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/condor-software)

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