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# Forward Deployed Engineer at Onos Health

- **Company:** Onos Health
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/onoshealth/58d36bae-5153-471a-9c8c-2094339be001

## Job description

## ABOUT ONOS HEALTH

Onos Health’s mission is simple but ambitious: ensure every healthcare dollar goes toward delivering the highest quality care. Today, 30% of total U.S. healthcare spending is wasted due to ineffective care and administrative burden caused by misalignment between providers and payers.

Onos is addressing this by building the largest AI-driven healthcare data platform. Our models enables payers to make faster, more accurate decisions across their populations. By guiding members to the right care, Onos is channeling more dollars to high-quality care that drives better outcomes while making healthcare more affordable.

Onos is well-funded by some of the best healthcare investors and is working with the nation’s largest health plans. Come join a category-defining company and help reimagine healthcare for the better.

WHY ONOS?

- Meaningful impact: Help fix what is fundamentally broken in healthcare
- Direct collaboration: Work alongside experienced founders with deep healthcare and data expertise
- Culture: Join a high-performing, transparent, and results-oriented team
- Ownership: Significant responsibility and autonomy from day one
- Opportunity: Play a pivotal role in building a fast-growing, category-defining healthcare AI company

## THE ROLE

We're seeking an experienced Forward Deployed Engineer, someone who is product minded and customer oriented to join and be our technical lead to interface directly with clients. As an early team member, you'll work closely with our founding team while helping to build and lead a growing engineering team. This role is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, where you'll be expected to work at our office in person 3 times a week.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING AT ONOS:

- Work directly with health plan customers to understand their claims workflows, data formats, and pain points, then translate that into working software
- Be the primary technical point of contact during integrations and rollouts of the Onos platform for new enterprise customers, and provide actionable insights and recommendations to health plan administrators
- Own end-to-end development of new features and functionality for the Onos platform, including requirements gathering, scoping, architecting, implementation and testing to deliver timely and high quality outcomes
- Shape our technical roadmap, make key architectural decisions, and influence the company's product and technical strategy

## TECHNICAL CHALLENGES AT ONOS:

- Develop an intelligent engine that ingests complex medical standards of care documents and evaluates provider adherence to guidelines
- Design and implement robust and extensible systems to easily support many different kinds of enterprise workflows and integrations
- Build AI/ML pipelines to analyze handwritten clinical notes, accurately extract important medical information, and automate recommendations for clinical reviewers
- Scale our systems to process millions of healthcare records while maintaining strict security and compliance requirements

## TECH STACK:

At Onos, we work with a modern tech stack where we continuously evaluate and adopt cutting-edge technologies as we scale.

- Infrastructure/Systems: AWS (ECS, Bedrock, Glue, etc.), Docker, Github Actions, Terraform
- Languages/Frameworks
- Backend: Python, Django, Celery / Celery Beat, django-ninja, django-tenants
- Frontend: NextJS, Typescript, Tanstack Query, Shadcn UI, Zod, Nuqs
- Database/Storage: PostgreSQL (AWS RDS), S3, Clickhouse
- Development Tools: Github, Jira, Claude Code, CoderabbitAI, Tusk

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

- 5+ years experience building software applications
- Strong product sense and system design skills with a track record of defining clear requirements, test scenarios, and acceptance criteria for complex systems
- Customer obsessed and motivated to make an impact in the healthcare space
- A hands-on technical leader who can architect robust and extensible systems, establish best practices with AI coding tools, and ship high quality production code

## BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE:

- Worked with machine learning and large language models for end-user applications
- Hands-on experience navigating healthcare data formats such as EDI X12, HL7, FHIR, and custom payer flat files

## BENEFITS AND PERKS

- Flexible hybrid arrangement: 3 days/week at San Francisco office (Financial District), remote-first culture
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Paid parental leave
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- 401(k)
- Significant equity as an early employee
- Direct mentorship from experienced founders
- Ground-floor opportunity to help build a team and culture
- Regular team events and offsites
- Company-provided equipment and home office setup

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

## About Onos Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Onos Health provides an AI-powered platform that helps health plans reduce waste and improve quality in behavioral health programs.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $6.3M in June 2025)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Akshay Agrawal (CEO) and Suhaas Prasad (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare IT – specifically behavioral health technology for payers
- **Target customers**: Health plans (payers) that manage behavioral health benefits, including government-sponsored programs
- **Mission statement**: “Fix what’s broken in behavioral health” – the company aims to streamline operations, reduce loss, and ensure higher-quality care.

## Products & Services
- **Onos Platform (AI-Powered Behavioral Health Management)**: A SaaS platform that combines machine learning, large language models, and generative AI to:
  - Alert health plans when members deviate from appropriate care paths and recommend corrective actions.
  - Detect fraud, waste, and abuse early.
  - Provide a 360-degree view of each member’s condition and care.
  - Unify clinical review, utilization management, and provider quality assessment in a single, collaborative web application.
  - Support full spectrum of behavioral health diagnoses and all care settings (outpatient, intensive outpatient, inpatient, crisis stabilization, school-based, etc.).
- **Integration Options**: Supports flatfile/CSV, API connections to claims/RCM/EMR systems, or direct data warehouse/lake integration.
- **Configuration**: Can be tailored to a health plan’s data, service lines, and clinical guidelines.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $6.3M (Seed round, June 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Seed round led by **Haystack** and **Pathlight Ventures**; 4 investors total.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 17 employees as of mid-2025, with active hiring for 6+ open roles (Staff Engineers, AI/ML, Product, Marketing).
  - Job postings increased 50% month-over-month.
  - LinkedIn follower count: 885.
  - Company featured in Axios coverage of the fundraise (October 2025).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Behavioral-health-specific AI models**: Proprietary models trained exclusively on millions of claims, clinical notes, plan policies, and member data points – not general-purpose AI.
- **HIPAA compliance**: Built by security professionals with payer experience; uses locally hosted AI/ML models to protect PHI.
- **Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)**: The platform continuously improves by incorporating team decisions back into the model.
- **End-to-end unification**: Brings together scattered clinical data and cross-functional teams (clinical review, utilization management, provider collaboration) in one platform.

## Strategic Focus
- **Reduce waste in behavioral health**: Onos targets the estimated 30% of every behavioral health dollar that goes to waste, aiming to cut that significantly.
- **Improve clinical oversight and provider quality**: Real-time alerts and recommendations keep members on effective care paths.
- **Expand data integration and configurability**: The platform works with existing payer systems and can be customized for each client’s policies and preferences.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Employees focus on transforming a broken part of healthcare with measurable impact.
- **Small, collaborative team**: Currently 17 people, offering high ownership and direct influence.
- **Hybrid work policy**: Open positions list San Francisco as location, with hybrid expectation.
- **Engineering culture**: Teams use modern tech stack (Python, Django, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, PyTorch, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, MLOps) and are building cutting-edge AI for healthcare.
- **Open roles**: Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack & AI/ML), Lead Engineer (Backend & Data/Integrations), Forward-Deployed Product Manager, Senior Software Engineer, Head of Marketing.

## Sources
1. [onoshealth.com](https://onoshealth.com/)
2. [onoshealth.com/about-us](https://onoshealth.com/about-us/)
3. [onoshealth.com/career](https://onoshealth.com/career/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/onos-health](https://www.linkedin.com/company/onos-health)
5. [builtin.com/company/onos-health](https://builtin.com/company/onos-health)

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