Founding Forward-Deployed ML Engineer

About the RoleThis is a founding-team opportunity at a small, fast-moving healthtech AI company building evidence infrastructure for safety-critical medical imaging AI. As a Founding Forward-Deployed ML Engineer, you will sit at the intersection of research, product deployment, and clinical operations — working directly with hospital partners to evaluate and deploy medical imaging AI in real-world clinical settings.You will play a central role in bridging the gap between benchmark performance and clinical reliability, translating AI models into trusted tools for patient care. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role suited to someone who is equally comfortable writing code, navigating clinical environments, and driving cross-functional projects to completion.Work arrangement: Hybrid, on-site in Sunnyvale, CA. Travel to hospital partner sites required as needed.Visa sponsorship: Not available.What You'll DoBuild reproducible evaluation pipelines and validation workflows for medical imaging AI in clinical settings.Lead forward-deployed engagements by working on-site with hospital partners to integrate models into clinical workflows.Analyze model generalization, failure modes, and u