--- title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at Luminai' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/forward-deployed-engineer-luminai-san-francisco-bxym66mqea8j' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Forward Deployed Engineer at Luminai - **Company:** Luminai - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Posted:** 2026-02-05 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/luminai/48abcc60-6f44-488a-acaa-4da40b81c937 ## Job description ## ABOUT LUMINAI Healthcare operations have always depended on people to bridge the gaps that technology couldn't. It relies on complex manual work to carry out critical internal processes, yet most health systems don’t have enough resources to properly automate these tasks, leaving them stuck in outdated, labor-intensive SOPs. Luminai structures the chaos, automates the manual handoffs, and deploys end-to-end workflows across every system, providing the integrated intelligence layer to improve processes over time. By delegating to autonomous AI systems those mission-critical workflows that previously expended valuable human time, Luminai allows doctors and administrators to do what they do best: Focus on Patients. We've raised $60M in funding, including our recent Series B led by Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia India), with participation from healthcare-focused Define Ventures and continued support from General Catalyst and Y Combinator. We're backed by some of the best investors in Silicon Valley, including Kevin Weil (Chief Product Officer at OpenAI), Arash Ferdowsi (co-founder of Dropbox), Katie Stanton (former VP Global Media, Twitter), and CEOs of companies such as Flexport, Notion, Front, Ramp, and Twitch. Our team is in-office 4 days a week (Monday - Friday, Wednesday optional WFH) in either San Francisco, California or New York, New York. ## ABOUT THE ROLE As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will sit at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer delivery. You’ll embed directly with customers, deeply understand their workflows, and design and deploy AI-powered solutions that deliver immediate, real-world impact. This is a highly autonomous, hands-on role for someone who thrives in ambiguous environments, enjoys working directly with customers, and wants to shape product direction through what they see in the field. You’ll partner closely with Product and Engineering to turn customer needs into scalable systems that improve how healthcare organizations operate. ## WHAT YOU’LL DO - Embed directly with customers to understand their workflows, constraints, and success criteria - Design, build, and deploy AI-driven solutions tailored to real operational problems - Build and maintain production systems including APIs, integrations, monitoring, and feedback loops - Translate business requirements and customer needs into technical architectures and implementations - Operate in high-stakes environments where reliability, speed, and judgment matter - Identify patterns across customer deployments and feed insights back into core product and platform development - Partner closely with Product and Engineering to influence roadmap, abstractions, and long-term system design - Own deployments end-to-end, from initial scoping through launch and iteration ## WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR - Strong proficiency in Python (TypeScript / JavaScript experience is a plus). - Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure). - Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into working, production-ready systems. - Strong communication skills and comfort working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - High ownership mindset with the ability to operate independently in fast-changing environments. - Experience with AI systems (LLMs, vector databases, prompt engineering, or agent frameworks) is a strong plus. ## About Luminai ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Luminai is an AI-native platform that automates complex operational workflows for the largest health systems in the United States. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Kesava Kirupa Dinakaran ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Healthcare Operations & AI Automation - **Target customers**: B2B, exclusively focused on large health systems and hospitals (Enterprise). - **Mission or purpose statement**: To create the AI platform for health system operations, turning operational chaos into automated intelligence with accuracy and compliance. ## Products & Services - **[Luminai AI Platform]**: An AI-powered platform that automates complex, manual tasks across a health system's operations. It integrates across existing systems to perform work end-to-end. Example use cases include Referral Intake, Provider Inbox Automation, Patient Registration, Orders/Referrals Processing, Pharmacy Renewals, and Appeals & Denials. The platform is deployed with enterprise-grade security (HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR compliant) and offers flexible deployment options (on-prem, VPC, managed). ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: $60.8M in Total Funding raised across multiple rounds. - **Funding History**: - Pre-Seed (2020): $250K led by Unshackled Ventures. - Seed (2020): $3M. - Series A (2022): $16M. - Series B (April 2026): $38M led by Peak XV Partners. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator, Peak XV Partners, Unshackled Ventures. They are also advised by prominent industry leaders including former CEO of the Cleveland Clinic, former CEO of Humana, and former Chief Research Officer at OpenAI. - **Growth Signals**: 12 million+ automations driven. Average time to value is 48 days with an average 5.3x ROI. Headcount is growing at 8% YoY, with 40 employees currently and 21 active job postings indicating major hiring momentum (Quarterly job posting growth of +200%). ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep Focus**: Solely focused on solving a massive ($1.2T cost problem), specialized problem for a concentrated market of 200 major health systems. This creates a deep moat compared to horizontal automation platforms. - **Trust & Compliance**: Built "AI-native from day one" with HIPAA, SOC 2, and GDPR compliance, and flexible deployment options that meet the stringent security requirements of healthcare enterprises. - **Interconnected Platform**: Instead of siloed point solutions, each use case they solve (e.g., Referral Intake) connects and compounds on the platform, making the entire system smarter over time. - **Leadership & Advisors**: Backed by a world-class team with deep domain expertise in AI (OpenAI) and healthcare (Cleveland Clinic, Humana). ## Strategic Focus - **Deepening Health System Relationships**: Expanding the number of use cases per customer (currently averaging 7) on a single, unified platform. - **Scaling the Platform**: Moving beyond initial use cases to become the primary "operating system" for hospital administration. - **Hiring for Scale**: Actively hiring across Engineering, Product, Sales, Deployments, and Operations to accelerate product development and market penetration. Job postings show a sharp +200% quarterly increase. ## Why Work Here - **High-Impact Mission**: The opportunity to work on a generational problem—fixing U.S. healthcare operations. The company describes this as "building the healthcare operating system that should have existed all along." - **Strong Engineering Culture**: The company is tech-heavy (41% of workforce is technical), with a focus on building AI at scale. Alumni come from top-tier companies like Palantir, Stripe, and Notion. - **Culture & Values**: Company commandments emphasize creating meaningful impact now and delivering value, with a focus on outcomes over obstacles. - **Hybrid/Office Policy**: They have offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York, and operate in a hybrid/in-office model for most roles. - **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance; daily lunches in-office; monthly all-inclusive stipend (food, internet, wellness); flexible PTO; company events and offsites; support for continued learning and development. ## Sources 1. [luminai.com](https://www.luminai.com/) 2. [luminai.com/about](https://www.luminai.com/about) 3. [luminai.com/careers](https://www.luminai.com/careers) 4. 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