Forward Deployed Engineer

🍊 About the role

The Forward Deployed Engineer is an embedded member of the trial team, delivering the technical solutions assigned studies need. You build the study across the Citrus ecosystem, set up and manage its integrations and data pipelines, and help produce the databases, data, and artifacts a trial depends on, accurate and compliant.

This is a technical role. You write code, build the automation and tooling that keep quality high, and take part in the fire team, with platform work done under software engineering oversight. Trial delivery is the priority and the technical work serves it.

🍊 About you

We'd like to hear from you if…

You have 3-6 years of experience in software, data, or systems work, through a degree in a technical field or hands-on work, and can deliver independently once pointed at a problem; experience in clinical trials or life sciences is a plus

You are a capable engineer; you are proficient in coding and AI tools. Experience with Django admin and/or relational databases is valued

You are precise and thorough, with the attention to detail to spot gaps and ambiguities before they become problems

You are driven to understand and solve problems, and comfortable collaborating across technical and non-technical teams

You can prioritize effectively and keep track of several things at once without letting them slip

You are interested in working in a regulated environment, and can build systems and produce documentation that holds up under audit or inspection

You thrive in a startup environment that challenges the norms of typical biotechs, with high agency and a bias for action

You are passionate about our mission: changing how the healthcare industry operates and how new health treatments are developed

🍊 What you'll focus on

Build assigned studies across the Citrus ecosystem from approved designs, covering data collection forms, participant schedules, logic and edit-check rules, and user access

Set up and manage the integrations and data pipelines a study depends on

Run quality checks, build validation and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to confirm the build matches the specification, and coordinate go-live

Make approved changes to live studies, keeping them accurate and compliant as trials evolve

Take part in the Citrus trial technical support team, owning tickets for data corrections and the data warehouse and helping to debug Citrus under software engineering oversight

Build automated and agentic workflows that produce high-quality, compliant data

Make contributions to the core Citrus codebase where needed, with software engineering oversight

Provide technical review and input into Data Architects' designs, then build from them and work with the full trial team to deliver studies, flagging gaps or ambiguities early

Conduct all activities in line with relevant regulations and Lindus SOPs, and keep documentation to a standard that holds up under audit or inspection

🍊What we offer (US)

Make an impact across all areas of our business and fix one of the world's most broken industries.

Competitive salary, plus meaningful stock options

27 days annual leave in addition to 11 National Holidays

Health insurance coverage through our PEO Trinet

$40 monthly wellness allowance, which you can spend on a wellhub membership, or wellness activities and expenses of your choice!

Enhanced Parental Leave: 16 weeks full pay for primary caregiver and 6 weeks full pay for secondary caregiver

$2,000 Learning and Development allowance each year to put towards courses, certifications, and development

Regular whole company and team events, both in person and virtually

Access to gym and retail discounts through our benefits platform Happl

Monthly lunch voucher for our remote teams

Charity events and fundraising opportunities through our charity partnership with the Forward Trust