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title: 'Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Manifold AI'
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# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Manifold AI

- **Company:** Manifold AI
- **Location:** Cambridge, MA
- **Posted:** 2026-06-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/manifoldai/jobs/7775383003

## Job description

## About Manifold

Manifold is the AI platform for life sciences, accelerating life-changing medicines to patients. Our products speed up workflows in areas from target identification and clinical development to market access and precision medicine in the clinic, while maintaining the governance life sciences requires. Global companies and premier research institutions use Manifold to operate faster and more effectively. Backed by leading investors including Reach Capital, TQ Ventures, Calibrate Ventures, SilverArc Capital, and Industry Ventures, Manifold serves tens of thousands of users across hundreds of organizations globally.

## About the role

Manifold is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDEs) to work at the intersection of AI, data infrastructure, and life sciences. In this high-impact role, you will embed directly with leading research institutions, biopharma companies, and life sciences organizations to drive adoption, implementation, and expansion of Manifold's AI platform.

As an FDE, you’ll work closely with both Product and GTM teams, combining technical expertise with customer-facing skills to build innovative solutions that accelerate complex scientific workflows. We expect our FDEs to operate autonomously, thrive under ambiguity, and represent Manifold at the highest level in customer environments. Working at the intersection of AI and life sciences, you'll not only play a key role in Manifold's success but also help our customers bring life-changing medicines to patients faster.

## What You’ll Do

- Embed directly with Manifold customers to understand their research environments and workflows
- Support Terra.bio and its user migration to the Manifold platform, serving as a technical bridge between existing Terra workflows and Manifold's new infrastructure
- Scope and architect end-to-end solutions leveraging Manifold's AI platform to solve customers’ most pressing problems
- Drive rapid time-to-value by ensuring fast onboarding, successful pilots, and clear paths to platform adoption
- Develop and deliver technical artifacts purpose-built for customers: Data pipelines, agent configuration, process automation, and domain-specific tooling
- Troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure, data, and application layers
- Identify repeatable patterns, playbooks, and tooling that accelerate future deployments
- Collaborate with the core platform team to inform product roadmaps
- Stay current regarding AI industry advancements and life sciences infrastructure

## What You’ll Bring

- A full-stack generalist with 5+ years of experience in a technical customer-facing role who thrives in ambiguity and is energized by working directly with life science researchers
- Comfort navigating complex technical environments, including cloud infrastructure, data warehouses, APIs, and diverse data formats common in life sciences and healthcare
- Hands-on experience building and deploying data pipelines, custom integrations, and AI-powered applications, ideally in complex enterprise or research environments
- Able to collaborate with diverse stakeholders, from bench scientists to C-suite executives
- High agency with a bias towards speed, pragmatism, and ownership; You've built AI into how you work. You're curious about new tools, resourceful in applying them, and have concrete examples of how AI changed your output.
- A genuine interest in life sciences, oncology, and healthcare; You've done your homework on what it means to accelerate life sciences research and you can articulate why that mission matters to you.
- Hands-on Java, JavaScript, Scala, Python, SQL, Snowflake, dbt, and Airflow experience
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and infrastructure-as-code patterns; Experience working in regulated data environments
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
- Willing to travel to customer sites as needed (estimated 20%)

What Sets You Apart

- Proficiency with Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent agentic development practices
- Prompt engineering, agent development, and eval experience
- Prior experience in life sciences, biopharma, or the healthcare data industry
- Previous experience directly supporting Terra.bio

## Why Manifold

- We offer the unique opportunity to work at the frontier of AI in life sciences, helping the world's leading research and clinical institutions adopt transformative technology.
- This is a high-autonomy, high-impact role where your work directly leads to positive customer outcomes that accelerate breakthrough science.
- You will gain exposure to a wide range of technical and business challenges across oncology, genomics, clinical data, and AI agent development.
- You will work with a collaborative team of engineers, scientists, and operators who are building something genuinely new and important.
- This is an opportunity to grow fast in a company that takes talent seriously. We offer strong compensation packages and excellent benefits.

Salary Range

The base salary range for this position is $150,000–$210,000 annually.

- Please note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience and expertise, and may vary from the amount above. This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K match or medical, dental or vision insurance).

## About Manifold AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Manifold is the Enterprise Agent Platform for life sciences, accelerating life-changing medicines to patients by automating data preparation, analysis, and collaboration across regulated workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, Dec 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Newton, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Vivek Mohta (President & Co-Founder), Demba Ba (Co-Founder & Principal Data Scientist)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI platform for life sciences (pharma, biotech, clinical research)
- **Target customers**: B2B – global pharmaceutical companies, premier research institutions, and clinical organizations
- **Mission**: Accelerate life-changing medicines to patients, from early discovery to the clinic, by applying agentic AI to transform traditional processes [manifold.ai/about](https://www.manifold.ai/about)

## Products & Services
- **[Agent OS](https://www.manifold.ai/platform)**: The core platform that automates the 80% of work that clogs R&D – interprets scientific intent, prepares datasets, configures tools, and applies organizational context to turn questions into insights in minutes.
- **Data Ingestion & Preparation Agents**: Context-engineer datasets so downstream agents can work.
- **Analysis Agents**: Run biostatistics, survival analysis, and bioinformatics pipelines end-to-end.
- **Cohort & Query Agents**: Build and slice across billions of clinical and genomic records using plain language.
- **Configurable Specialist Agents**: Tailored to fit specific organizational workflows and roles.
- **Governance & Compliance Layer**: Unified governance layer with fine-grained access controls, encryption, HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, TX-RAMP, NIST SP 800-171, and BAA readiness. Deploys to your private cloud (AWS) – data never leaves your environment [manifold.ai](https://www.manifold.ai/).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Annual Revenue: $5.0M–$25.0M (estimated) [linkedin.com/company/manifoldinc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/manifoldinc)
  - Total Funding: $40.5M across 4 rounds (Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B)
  - Employees: 77 (+38.9% YoY) [linkedin.com/company/manifoldinc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/manifoldinc)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Reach Capital (led Series B), TQ Ventures (led Series A), Calibrate Ventures, SilverArc Capital, Industry Ventures, TTCER Partners [linkedin.com/company/manifoldinc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/manifoldinc)
- **Growth Signals**: Serves tens of thousands of users across hundreds of organizations globally; reported up to 100x faster query turnaround (weeks → minutes) and production-ready deployments in weeks, not quarters [manifold.ai](https://www.manifold.ai/).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Life-sciences‑native compliance**: Built from day one for HIPAA, IRB, BAA, PHI handling, and SOC 2 – AI runs inside customer compliance requirements, not around them.
- **Bring‑Your‑Own‑Cloud deployment**: Platform deploys to the customer’s own AWS environment; data stays with the customer and is fully auditable.
- **Agent OS specialization**: Unlike general AI platforms, Manifold’s agents are purpose-built for clinical, genomic, and real‑world data workflows, covering everything from data ingestion to biostatistics and cohort identification.
- **Measured impact**: Demonstrated reductions in query turnaround from months to minutes, with specific customer case studies in multimodal oncology data and multi‑omics platforms [manifold.ai](https://www.manifold.ai/).

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Deepening agent capabilities across the full life‑science value chain (target identification → clinical development → market access → precision medicine) while maintaining rigorous governance and expanding the partner ecosystem.
- **Direction for growth**: Scaling the platform to more global pharma companies and research consortia, and increasing automation of the 80% of R&D work that is currently manual [manifold.ai/platform](https://www.manifold.ai/platform).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High‑autonomy, high‑impact environment where engineers, scientists, and operators collaborate to build something genuinely new and important. Described as a “high‑pressure, multi‑threaded” but mission‑driven team [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/manifoldai/jobs/7767743003).
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: The Staff SRE role is based in Cambridge, MA; likely a hybrid presence (office in Newton/Cambridge area). Specific policy not publicly detailed.
- **Notable perks**: Strong compensation packages with base salary range for Staff SRE $160,000–$225,000, plus equity, 401k match, medical/dental/vision insurance. Opportunity to work at the frontier of AI in life sciences and directly accelerate breakthrough science [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/manifoldai/jobs/7767743003).
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on infrastructure as code, AI‑augmented workflows, and solving complex problems in regulated environments. Engineers are expected to be hands‑on and comfortable with a wide‑ranging tech stack (AWS, Terraform, Snowflake, Airflow, dbt, PostgreSQL, etc.).
- **Growth**: Fast‑growing company (+38.9% YoY headcount) with significant ownership and exposure to oncology, genomics, clinical data, and AI agent development.

## Sources
1. [manifold.ai](https://www.manifold.ai/) – Company homepage, product features, and impact metrics
2. [manifold.ai/about](https://www.manifold.ai/about) – Mission and company background
3. [manifold.ai/platform](https://www.manifold.ai/platform) – Platform capabilities (Agent OS, Governance, Collaboration, Infrastructure)
4. [linkedin.com/company/manifoldinc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/manifoldinc) – Company details, funding rounds, employee count, and growth
5. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/manifoldai/jobs/7767743003) – Staff Site Reliability Engineer job posting (compensation, culture, tech stack)

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