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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Manifold is an AI-powered clinical research platform that streamlines study and data management, enabling researchers to accelerate insights and collaboration.

Manifold AI

Employee count: 51-200

United States only

As the amount of biomedical data types and scale continues to grow, old ways of working with data hold back the pace of progress — fragmented data, overwhelming omics, complex manual work, analysis backlogs, friction in secure collaboration, and barriers to distributing workflows. We have a conviction about how to move closer to a future of precision medicine by making it ten times faster and one-tenth the cost to generate knowledge, develop better treatments, and improve patient outcomes.

As a result, Manifold began its journey. We’re a health research infrastructure company that enables researchers to focus on the high-impact research that matters most, by taking care of all the other stuff that gets in the way. As a trusted research platform for modern scientific collaboration, we partner with top-tier healthcare providers, life sciences organizations, and research institutions to unlock real-world data and deliver actionable insights that improve precision medicine and discovery.

We’re currently aSeries A startup with 50+ employees across North America. Backed by top-tier investors and healthcare leaders including; Andrew Marks of TQ Ventures, Jason Schoettler of Calibrate Ventures, Gaurav Singal of Foundation Medicine, Steve Fredette of Toast, Amar Kendale of Livongo, Andrew Bialecki of Klaviyo, Brad Porter of Amazon, Jon Karlen of Acadian Software, and Pravin Soni of Elevation Pharma.

Our Culture

At Manifold, we value intellectual rigor, humility, and mission-driven collaboration. We believe that technology is only as powerful as the people behind it, and we’re building a culture that supports growth, inclusion, and curiosity. We work fast, think deeply, and strive to make a lasting impact on patients' lives.

About Manifold

As the amount of biomedical data types and scale continues to grow, old ways of working with data hold back the pace of progress — fragmented data, overwhelming omics, complex manual work, analysis backlogs, friction in secure collaboration, and barriers to distributing workflows.

Manifold is a health research infrastructure company that enables researchers to focus on the high-impact research that matters most, by taking care of all the other stuff that gets in the way. As a trusted research platform for modern scientific collaboration, we partner with top-tier healthcare providers, life sciences organizations, and research institutions to unlock real-world data and deliver actionable insights that improve precision medicine and discovery.

We’re a early stage VC funded startup with over 50 employees across North America, backed by world-class investors and healthcare leaders including Andrew Marks of TQ Ventures, Jason Schoettler of Calibrate Ventures, Gaurav Singal of Foundation Medicine, Steve Fredette of Toast, Amar Kendale of Livongo, Andrew Bialecki of Klaviyo, Brad Porter of Amazon, Jon Karlen of Acadian Software, and Pravin Soni of Elevation Pharma.


About the Role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will sit at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer success. You’ll work directly with our life sciences and healthcare partners to deploy Manifold’s platform in real-world environments, tailoring solutions to their unique needs.

This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in fast-paced, customer-facing environments—someone who loves solving complex problems hands-on, bridging the gap between platform engineering and applied use cases in genomics, oncology, and clinical research.


What You’ll Do

  • Own deployments of the Manifold platform at customer sites, ensuring seamless integration with existing data systems and workflows.

  • Collaborate with researchers, data scientists, and clinical teams to translate their problems into scalable technical solutions.

  • Implement, customize, and optimize pipelines for multimodal data (EHR, genomics, imaging, clinical data).

  • Act as the technical voice of the customer, bringing feedback into Manifold’s product roadmap.

  • Troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges across cloud infrastructure, data ingestion, and security/compliance environments.

  • Partner closely with engineering and product teams to ensure deployments are scalable, reproducible, and production-ready.

  • Create technical documentation and best practices to enable repeatable deployments across institutions.


What You’ll Bring

  • 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, data engineering, or related technical roles.

  • Strong proficiency with Python, SQL, and cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred).

  • Experience working with healthcare, life sciences, or other regulated data environments a strong plus.

  • Comfort navigating both technical and non-technical conversations with researchers, clinicians, and IT stakeholders.

  • Ability to work independently in dynamic, customer-facing situations while maintaining strong collaboration with internal teams.

  • Enthusiasm for working in a startup environment where adaptability, curiosity, and ownership are key.


What We Offer

  • Supported remote work across North American time zones.

  • Comprehensive benefits: healthcare, dental, vision, life insurance, disability.

  • 401k match, 12 weeks parental leave, end of year holiday week shutdown

  • Pet insurance, pharmacy discounts.

  • A culture that values curiosity, transparency, and impact.


About the Team

We are a team of proven startup operators with a track record of building successful technology companies, and deep subject matter expertise across oncology, clinical, precision medicine, enterprise SaaS, and healthcare technology.

We’re still a startup—some things are unstructured, and we like it that way. We value adaptability, ownership, and an eagerness to jump in wherever needed to move the mission forward.

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About Manifold AI

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Manifold is an AI-powered clinical research platform designed to address the evolving needs of life sciences R&D. Many research organizations, including cancer centers and those studying rare diseases, face significant challenges with fragmented data, manual workflows, and the sheer volume and complexity of biomedical information. These hurdles slow down the pace of discovery and make it difficult to translate research into improved patient outcomes. Manifold's customers, such as the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, are looking for ways to streamline their operations, accelerate their research, and foster collaboration. They need a robust infrastructure that can handle large-scale, multimodal data (spanning genomics, imaging, clinical records, and more) and provide intuitive tools for analysis and insights.

Manifold offers a comprehensive solution to these challenges by providing a unified platform that simplifies data collection, harmonization, and management. Our AI-driven tools automate tedious tasks, enabling researchers to move from data to insights in minutes rather than months. This allows research teams to focus on high-impact work, such as developing new treatments and understanding disease mechanisms, rather than getting bogged down in data wrangling. We empower researchers by making complex data more accessible and analyzable, even for those without extensive coding expertise, through features like natural language search and automated analysis. By breaking down data silos and facilitating secure collaboration across institutions, Manifold helps accelerate the entire research lifecycle. Our ultimate goal is to make it significantly faster and more cost-effective to conduct modern research studies, thereby unlocking new possibilities in precision medicine and improving patient care. We are committed to providing a trusted research environment that supports our customers in their mission to make groundbreaking discoveries.

Employee benefits

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Top-tier health insurance

Manifold offers a platinum-tier medical PPO, as well as a robust dental PPO and vision policy for you and your family. Manifold pays 80% and you pay 20%.

Flexibility

Manifold provides a flexible environment for work-life integration. We focus on getting done what you promised and leave it to you to attend to your personal and professional commitments.

Vacations & leave

Manifold offers flexible paid time-off, including self-managed vacation, personal, and sick days. If you need time away, take it. We know that we do our best deep work when we're healthy and recharged.

401(k) retirement plan

Manifold automatically contributes 3% to your retirement plan in addition to your salary, with no vesting schedule or other gotchas—just simple and straightforward. You can contribute in addition to that.

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