Forward Deployed AI Engineer

About this role

PicnicHealth is simplifying clinical research with AI, making it faster and cheaper to get new treatments to patients. We're bringing a patient-centered, AI-first approach to a $100b market otherwise dominated by old-school, services-driven incumbents. We're creating a streamlined operating system for clinical research, built on top of our AI for medical record data in trials and a personal health app that keeps patients engaged in their healthcare.


The Opportunity
We believe AI will fundamentally transform how clinical research is done. PicnicHealth is already proving this. Our AI processes medical records, engages patients, and powers study operations in ways that were impossible a few years ago. But we're just getting started, and the gap between what AI can do and what our teams actually use day-to-day is where the biggest leverage is.


We have an AI team building powerful capabilities, and a Study Delivery team of scientists, biostatisticians, project managers, and patient recruitment specialists doing complex, high-stakes work. The Forward Deployed AI Engineer bridges that gap. You'll sit within our AI team, allowing you to leverage their expertise to develop faster and more effectively. Day-to-day, you’ll be embedded with Study Delivery, learning their workflows, understanding their pain points, and implementing immediate solutions using whatever gets the job done: internal AI tools, off-the-shelf software, scrappy one-off scripts, or adding new features directly to our platform.


But this isn't just about quick fixes. You'll also inform the Product roadmap, to make sure we're building the right tools and infrastructure to enable Study Delivery on a longer time horizon. You're the feedback loop, translating operational reality into engineering priorities.


What You'll Do

• Embed with Study Delivery to deeply understand how studies are created, launched, and run, becoming the technical expert who knows both the platform and the op...