UK; Germany; New York; Paris Remote (Country) Full-time

Owkin is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and deploy production-grade AI systems on top of Owkin K with senior engineers.
  • Write code, build integrations, design data pipelines and APIs, and turn ambiguous problems into reliable software used in critical scientific and operational workflows.
  • Work directly with engineers, data scientists, biologists and clinicians from our customers: leading pharma and biotech companies, as well as within Owkin.
  • Translate ambiguous scientific and operational challenges into concrete software solutions, rapidly prototyping, iterating with users, and delivering results that have measurable impact.
  • Integrate solutions into large, complex, and regulated organizations.
  • Work with diverse datasets, existing systems, and multiple stakeholders to ensure that the tools you build are reliable, scalable, and actively used in production.
  • Support customer engagements alongside more senior team members, progressively taking on more ownership with external customers to solve high-leverage problems by customizing and extending Owkin’s agentic platform K.
  • Design, build, and deploy tailored solutions on top of Owkin K, guiding them from conception through final delivery.
  • Contribute to rapid prototyping and iteration to validate solutions early and frequently.
  • Balance scope, speed, and quality, adapting plans to ensure successful delivery.
  • Communicate clearly across technical and non-technical stakeholders to align expectations.
  • Collaborate with Customer Success Managers, Domain Experts, Product and Engineering teams to guarantee effective delivery, client satisfaction, and sustained adoption of Owkin’s product.
  • Turn proven patterns into reusable, scalable components, tools, and playbooks.
  • Share feedback from the field to help shape the roadmap.
  • Participate in a team wise shared on-call rotation

Requirements

  • 2+ year of experience as a software engineer, with a focus on backend systems
  • Fluent in Python and modern engineering tools and coding co-pilots: write clean, production-grade code, design scalable systems, and contribute to code reviews and technical design discussions
  • Experience working with LLMs and agentic AI frameworks
  • Ability to simplify complexity and make fast, sound decisions under time pressure
  • Communicate effectively across diverse audiences: technical teams, product managers and non-technical stakeholders. Adapt language and detail to ensure clarity and alignment
  • Thrive in fast-evolving environments by staying flexible, embracing ambiguity, and proactively driving progress despite incomplete information

Nice to Have

  • Proven experience building and deploying on cloud platforms
  • Understanding of the drug development pipeline and related scientific workflows.
  • Full stack experience
  • Familiarity with biostatistics, computational biology, or medical imaging

Benefits

  • Flexible work organization
  • Friendly and informal working environment
  • Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds

Work Arrangement

Remote (Country) — UK, Germany, France

Additional Information

  • This position is remote and based in the UK, Germany or France.
  • Please submit your CV in English.
  • Candidates not meeting all criteria, but who can demonstrate exceptional skill in key areas, are invited to apply.
  • The role involves significant work conducted at the customer’s premises.
Required Skills
Biostatistics
About company
Owkin

Building the autonomous AI Scientist to transform biopharmaceutical research and development.

Owkin is pioneering advanced AI that can explore and formulate hypotheses beyond the limits of human intelligence. The company is building an autonomous AI Scientist to automate R&D in biopharma and support clinical research, connecting science directly to patient care.

Our AI is trained and validated on one of the world's richest multimodal patient data networks. Insights are refined through wet lab experiments, feedback from a global network of leading oncologists and biologists, and continuous learning from real-world data.

K Pro, Owkin's first AI agent, informs decision-making across drug discovery and development. As it evolves, K Pro aims to become a Biological Artificial SuperIntelligence capable of causal understanding of disease.

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Department R&TECH
Category other
Posted 7 months ago