Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

Trellis helps healthcare providers treat more patients faster—while eliminating pre-service paperwork.

We do this by automating document intake, prior authorizations, and appeals at scale to streamline operations and accelerate care.

Trellis is a spinout from Stanford AI lab and is backed by leading investors including YC, General Catalyst, Telesoft partners, and executives at Google and Salesforce.

The Role

Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) at Trellis work directly with healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies, and diagnostic labs to understand their most pressing operational challenges and implement AI-powered solutions that transform patient care. Our customers trust Trellis for mission-critical healthcare operations, and projects often start with complex questions like "How do we reduce prior authorization denial rates while accelerating patient access to life-saving treatments?" or "How can we streamline our drug program enrollment process to get patients the medications they need faster?"

🧍🏻‍♂️Why work with us

Be at the forefront of what's possible in AI and Healthcare data.

Work on the most important problem of our time—with direct, measurable impact.

You will work closely with the F500 customers and the founding team. You will get to wear multiple hats from sales and marketing to recruiting.

Extreme ownership: you will own key part of Trellis business operations and have the opportunities to start new initiatives.

Be a part of a world-class team (e.g., team members have previously won the international physics olympiad, published economics research, were a founding engineer at Unicorn Startup, and taught AI classes to hundreds of Stanford graduate students).

Requirements

Core Responsibilities: As an FDE, your role combines the technical depth of a senior engineer with the strategic thinking of a healthcare consultant. You'll work in small, autonomous teams with direct access to leadership and own end-to-end delivery of high-impact projects. Your day might include:

Technical Implementation: Architecting and building custom AI workflows, integrating with EHR systems, and developing healthcare-specific data pipelines

Customer Collaboration: Working directly with clinical teams, operations managers, and C-suite executives to understand workflows and optimize outcomes

Data Engineering: Processing and structuring complex healthcare data, from clinical notes to insurance guidelines to lab results

Product Development: Building custom interfaces and tools that seamlessly integrate into existing healthcare workflows

Strategic Planning: Establishing implementation roadmaps and success metrics for large-scale healthcare transformation projects

Compensation & Benefits

The salary range above is our good-faith estimate. Your final level and base salary will reflect what you bring: your skills, your experience, and how much ownership you’re ready to take on. Base pay is only one part of the package. Every full-time teammate also gets meaningful equity, because the people building Trellis should share in what it becomes. We are committed to keeping you healthy and supported so you can do the best work of your career. Here are some of the benefits & perks we offer:

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible PTO & Sick Time

Daily meals in the office

Team offsites

Equal Opportunity at Trellis

At Trellis, we’re building AI agents that help patients get life-saving medicine faster. The patients and providers we serve come from every background, and our team should too. Trellis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We hire based on talent, curiosity, and drive, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

If you need an accommodation at any point in our hiring process, let your recruiter know and we’ll take care of it.