How you will help
Accelerate customer and partner needs into clear, reliable, and scalable data and AI solutions, while strengthening HealthVerity’s engineering framework through real-world application and feedback.As a Forward-Deployed Engineer at HealthVerity, you will embed with customers and cross-functional teams to rapidly translate complex business problems into well-designed data flows, AI-enabled capabilities, and production-ready systems. You will help turn fragmented or bespoke customer requirements into smooth, repeatable data processes that align with our platform strategy.Through hands-on delivery, you will also advance HealthVerity’s engineering and AI frameworks; validating patterns, surfacing gaps, and shaping standards that make it easier for teams to build, deploy, and operate intelligent data products at scale.
What you will do
- Lead technical discovery engagements with customers or internal partners to deeply understand business workflows, constraints, data realities, and success criteria.
- Rapidly prototype and iterate on pragmatic solutions; often using AI/ML, data pipelines, and backend services to validate value early and reduce delivery risk.
- Design and deliver production ready systems, including APIs, data pipelines, ML workflows, and cloud-native services, aligned with HealthVerity’s architecture and security standards.
- Own deployments and scaling efforts, troubleshooting complex issues across data, infrastructure, and application layers in real customer environments.
- Translate field learnings into leverage, feeding actionable insights back into product strategy, platform roadmap decisions, and reusable engineering patterns.
How success will be defined
- Successfully deliver multiple high-impact customer or partner engagements, translating ambiguous business needs into production-ready technical solutions.
- Drive adoption and demonstrated the value of HealthVerity platform capabilities within real customer environments.
- Build strong, trusted relationships with customers and internal stakeholders, reflected in consistently positive feedback on technical delivery and collaboration.
- Influence product and platform direction by bringing concrete, field-driven insights into roadmap, architecture, and prioritization discussions.
- Leave behind durable, maintainable solutions and reusable patterns that scale beyond individual engagements.
Required skills and experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, delivering production systems in Python, and/or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience building data-intensive, distributed systems, including APIs, data pipelines, and cloud-native services (AWS or similar).
- Demonstrated experience owning and productionizing AI/ML solutions—taking them beyond experimentation into reliable, monitored workflows and systems
- Strong ability to operate in ambiguous, customer-driven problem spaces and make sound technical decisions.
- Clear communicator with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and customer teams.
Desired skills and experience
- Experience working in regulated or compliance-driven environments (e.g., healthcare, life sciences, financial services).
- Background in customer-facing or domain-embedded engineering roles (e.g., forward-deployed, solutions, or consulting).
- Familiarity with modern data platforms and analytical workloads (e.g., Databricks, Spark, Snowflake).
- Experience influencing product or platform direction through real-world delivery or field-driven insights.
Base salary for the role is commensurate with experience and can range between $170,000 - 220,000 + annual bonus opportunity.
Hiring Locations
Our main office is located in Center City, Philadelphia, where we operate on a hybrid model with in-office work required three days a week for local employees. We believe collaboration is most effective when teams come together, which is why we prioritize hiring in the Philadelphia area.For certain roles, we also hire from hub locations—regions where we have an established presence with multiple team members working remotely. While these employees primarily work from home, we bring them together in person at lease once a year for team-building, collaboration, and strategic planning.Due to tax and labor regulations, we can only hire from specific states.
Remote work is supported in the following key hub locations and approved states:
Hub Locations:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Boston, Massachusetts
- New York City, New York
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Washington, D.C.
- Charlotte, North Carolina
- Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Chicago, Illinois
Approved States for Remote Work:
CT, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, MA, MD, MI, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, TN, and VA.
About HealthVerity
HealthVerity is the leader in privacy-protected real-world data exchange, transforming how healthcare and life sciences organizations connect and analyze disparate healthcare and consumer data. We continue to innovate HealthVerity Marketplace, the nation'sfirst and largest real-world data ecosystemcomprising more than 75 leading data providers and over 340 million US patients. Combined with Identity Manager, the industry's most accurate and efficient solution for patient identity, privacy and governance, we support critical applications in clinical development, commercial strategy,regulatory decision-making, population health, underwriting and more. HealthVerity has raised more than $140 million to date and works closely with its data providers, partners and clients to Synchronize the Science. To learn more about HealthVerity, visit healthverity.com.
Why you'll love working here
We are making a difference – Our technology is at the forefront of some of the biggest healthcare challenges in the world. We are one team – Our people define our culture and always will. We take time out to celebrate each other, and acknowledge the value that each of us adds towards our greater mission. Come share all you have to offer with our 200-person team.We are learners – Every team member is continually learning, no matter if we've been in a role for one year or much longer. We are committed to learning and implementing what is best for our clients, partners, and each other.
Benefits & Perks
Our benefits package is thoughtfully designed to support and enrich the experience of our full-time employees, with eligibility limited to those in permanent positions.
- Compensation: competitive base salary & annual bonus opportunity (for non-commissioned roles)
- Benefits: We offer a 401(k) plan and stock options. Health, dental, and vision coverage start on day 1, while 401(k) eligibility and stock options follow soon after.
- Flexible location: Remote workdays and 3 days a week of in-office collaboration for team members in the Philadelphia area. Check location requirements with the recruiting team.
- Generous PTO: Take time off as needed, targeted at 4 weeks per year, including vacation, personal and sick time, plus paid parental leave.
- Parental Leave: 12 weeks paid leave for childbearing, surrogacy, and adoption; 6 weeks for non-childbearing parents.
- Comprehensive and individualized onboarding: mentorship program, departmental talks, and a library of resources are available beginning day 1 for each new team member to minimize the stress of starting a new job
- Professional development: biweekly 1:1s, hands-on leadership that is goal-and growth-oriented for each team member, and an annual budget to support professional development pursuits
We believe incorporating different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds make us stronger and encourages an environment where ageism, racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia or any other form of discrimination are not tolerated. All qualified job applicants will be given consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability. At HealthVerity, we’re working towards an innovative and connected future for healthcare data and believe the future is better together.
We can only do that if everyone has a seat at the table. If you require a reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to careers@healthverity.comRemote opportunities are not available in all areas and require team members to work from a fixed location due to tax and labor law implications - specific questions about remote positions can be discussed during the interview process with your recruiter.
