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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at HealthLeap'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer at HealthLeap

- **Company:** HealthLeap
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $200k–$275k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-12-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-24
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/healthleap/b36964b8-0d5c-4d2d-bc3a-158fc712954d

## Job description

## About Healthleap

Every day, millions of hospitalized patients who need intervention are missed because clinicians simply can't see everything. HealthLeap is building the AI operating system that helps care teams identify these missed patients, enabling them to improve health outcomes and generate millions of dollars. HealthLeap is changing what is possible: closing gaps that traditional workflows and clinician capacity could never. Over the past year, we've grown contracted revenue more than 13x, expanded rapidly across leading health systems, and now help care teams identify patients across millions of inpatient encounters. We're ~25 people. >$32M raised. SF-based, hybrid-friendly. And, we're delivering results that are changing lives. Forward Deployed Engineer, Integrations

## About the role

Build software with hospital teams, then turn what works into product.

HealthLeap helps clinicians find patients who need attention first. We’re live at 40+ hospitals and plan to add another 100. Each hospital has its own systems, API quirks, and clinical workflows.

You’ll work directly with hospital IT and clinical teams to understand what they need. Much of the job is building and running integrations. Some problems call for more: a tool to help a hospital inspect its data, analytics for a clinical team, or a workflow built around how that hospital works. You’ll build those solutions and make the useful patterns reusable.

Our stack is Python and TypeScript.

## What you’ll do

- Own the engineering work behind hospital integrations, from technical discovery through reliable production data.
- Build and debug connections to record systems, including authentication, APIs, data mapping, and monitoring.
- Work with hospital teams to investigate problems and test solutions with the people who use them.
- Build customer tools or analytics when the standard product does not yet meet a hospital’s needs.
- Turn repeated requests into reusable connectors, validation tools, and product features.

## What we’re looking for

- 5+ years building and operating production software, with strong backend, API, data modeling, and SQL skills.
- Experience taking a complex third-party integration live with the technical team on the other side.
- Evidence that you’ve built software around a customer’s workflow and improved it after they used it.
- Enjoyment of customer work. You can investigate an unclear problem, explain tradeoffs, and decide what to build without waiting for a complete spec.

What will make you stand out

- You’ve founded a company or been an early engineer who owned the messy parts.
- You’ve worked with EHRs, HL7, or FHIR. Strong engineering and integration judgment matters more than healthcare experience.

This role is NOT for you if

- You’d rather maintain an interface than build the system.
- You want the spec handed to you.
- You want to stay heads-down. You’ll work with hospital teams regularly.
- You want predictable 9-to-5 hours. We protect deep rest, but a hospital go-live can mean a 60+ hour week.

Interview process No LeetCode or puzzles. Use the tools you’d use on the job, including AI.

- Intro call
- System design
- Take-home exercise
- Onsite with the team in San Francisco

We decide the same week as the onsite.

## Compensation and benefits

- $200,000–$275,000 base plus meaningful equity
- 100% covered healthcare premiums
- Unlimited PTO with a 20-day minimum
- 4% 401(k) match
- Laptop and home office budget

Location San Francisco, in person. We work together in the office by default, with flexibility to work from home when needed. We judge output, not hours.

If you're passionate about applying frontier AI to real-world impact, join us in building healthcare's future.

## About HealthLeap

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: HealthLeap provides an AI-powered clinical screening platform that helps hospitals identify and treat malnutrition earlier by analyzing electronic health record (EHR) data.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Josiah Meyer (CEO, Co-Founder) and Jemima Meyer, RD(SA) (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare technology / Clinical AI
- **Target customers**: B2B – hospitals and health systems (enterprise)
- **Mission**: "Maximize the health outcomes of as many people as possible" – a world where hospitals catch problems before they become emergencies.

## Products & Services
- **[AI Malnutrition Screening Platform](https://healthleap.ai/)**: An AI-driven clinical decision support tool that integrates with EHR systems to automatically prioritize patients at risk of malnutrition. It surfaces risk scores, severity tracking, and prioritization alerts to accelerate targeted clinical intervention. The tool is the only commercially available, peer-reviewed validated platform in this category.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: >$8M raised (total funding, per careers page); CBInsights reports $1.2M total raised (conflicting reports – the careers page is more recent). Investors include Hummingbird Ventures, Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, and Fifty Years.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Hummingbird Ventures, Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, Fifty Years; clinical partnerships with Cedars-Sinai, Johns Hopkins, Stanford Health, Houston Methodist.
- **Growth Signals**: 7× revenue growth in 7 months (June 2025 – Dec 2025); deployed at Houston Methodist and across Cedars-Sinai; ~15 person team; peer-reviewed validation study published.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Only validated AI malnutrition screening tool on the market** – peer-reviewed study with Cedars-Sinai, Johns Hopkins, and Stanford showing AUROC of 95% (91% on first day), 88% higher sensitivity than nurse-administered screening, and 4 days earlier identification.
- **Defensive clinical niche** – helps hospitals improve quality metrics, reduce length of stay, and defend against retroactive payer claim denials.
- **Proven ROI**: $11M/year per site in revenue and cost savings for one partner (Cedars-Sinai).

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities include expanding deployment across large health systems, maximizing screening consistency, and reducing length of stay. The company is moving past actionable risk scores toward earlier, pre-admission identification.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Early-stage (~15 people) with meaningful ownership; "early enough to shape the product." In-person team based in San Francisco’s Mission District, hybrid-friendly (3–5 days in office). Relocation covered.
- **Compensation**: Market-leading salaries, equity, 100% of employee health insurance premiums covered, 4% 401(k) match, unlimited PTO (recommended minimum 20 days), equipment budget.
- **Engineering culture**: At the heart of the AI revolution; focus on responsible AI that empowers clinicians. Fast growth (7× revenue in 7 months) means real impact.
- **Mission-driven**: "Make a difference in the future of healthcare" – direct patient outcomes improvement.

## Sources
1. [healthleap.ai](https://healthleap.ai/)
2. [healthleap.ai/about](https://www.healthleap.ai/about)
3. [careers.healthleap.ai](https://careers.healthleap.ai/)
4. [healthleap.ai/careers](https://healthleap.ai/careers)
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/healthleap-1)

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