Forward Deployed Engineer

About us

Owkin is an AI company on a mission to solve the complexity of biology. It is building the first Biology Super Intelligence (BASI) by combining powerful biological large language models, multimodal patient data, and agentic software. At the heart of this system is Owkin K, an AI copilot and its new LLM fine-tuned on biology called Owkin Zero, used by researchers, clinicians, and drug developers to better understand biology, validate scientific hypotheses, and deliver better diagnostics and therapies faster.

This position is remote and based in the UK, Germany or France.

About the role:

We are seeking exceptional Junior Forward Deployed Engineers to work at the intersection of AI, software systems, and biology. In this role, you will partner directly with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to solve high-impact problems by designing, building, and deploying production-grade solutions on top of our agentic AI platform, Owkin K.

This is a deeply hands-on engineering role: you will write code, build integrations, design system architectures, and rapidly prototype new capabilities that bring advanced AI into real scientific workflows. A significant portion of this work will be conducted at the customer's premises.

You will operate across three core dimensions:

• Build real systems: 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
• Solve problems with users: Work directly with engineers, data scientists, biologists and clinicians from our customers: leading pharma and biotech companies
• Deploy in the real world: Integrate solutions into large, complex, and regulated organizations

In particular, you will:

• Support customer engagements alongside more senior team members
• Design, build, and deploy tailored solutions on top of Owkin K, guiding them from conception through final delivery
• Contribute to rapid prototyping and iteration
• Balance scope, speed, and quality
• Communicate clearly across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Collaborate with Customer Success Managers, Domain Experts, Product and Engineering teams
• Turn proven patterns into reusable, scalable components, tools, and playbooks
• Share feedback from the field to help shape the roadmap

About you:

• 2+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a focus on backend systems
• Fluent in Python and modern engineering tools and coding co-pilots
• 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
• Thrive in fast-evolving environments

Bonus skills:

• 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