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Forward Deployed Engineer

Chicago, IL (In-person)
Full-time
Engineering Team

About Cofactor

Cofactor is on a mission to reduce the cost of healthcare for all Americans. We deploy boutique automation studios into health systems to launch AI agents and applications that handle administrative work. We’re venture-backed by top investors like Drive Capital and headquartered in Chicago.

The role

Build AI-powered healthcare workflows alongside the people who use them. As an FDE, you’ll work within a customer deployment pod: learn how a hospital operates, identify a measurable problem, build and launch a solution, then improve it with users. The work spans data analysis, engineering, product decisions, training, and support.

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What you’ll do

  • Find the right problem before building. Meet users and leaders, examine their data and workflows, define a baseline and target metric, and scope a first release that can show value quickly.
  • Build across the stack. Develop data pipelines, integrations, application workflows, and AI components as the problem requires, from claims processing and BigQuery analysis to correspondence classification and clinical-status prototypes.
  • Validate with real users and source data. Compare results with ground truth, investigate misses, build accuracy feedback loops, and prioritize fixes by customer value, not just bug count.
  • Own the launch experience. Demo and train teams, watch for adoption friction, respond clearly to feedback, and help turn a useful prototype into a dependable daily workflow.
  • Make deployment work reusable. Document customer requests and trade-offs, bring recurring gaps to the platform team, and help turn customer-specific builds into products that work across deployments.

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What we’re looking for

  • Strong software-engineering and data-analysis skills, with the range to work from messy operational data through a user-facing product.
  • Comfort talking directly with users, turning what you learn into product scope, and explaining results to both operators and directors.
  • Sound judgment about what to build now, what to defer, and how to measure whether it worked.
  • A habit of surfacing timeline and quality risks early, rather than silently absorbing launch pressure.
  • Willingness to work closely with customer teams, including training and on-site workflow discovery when an engagement calls for it.

Cofactor is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Replacing healthcare's administrative complexity with intelligence. Based in Chicago, IL.

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