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About Judi Health
Judi Health is a health technology company providing benefit administration solutions to employers, unions, health plans, and government entities. Judi Health replaces fragmented, outdated systems with the industry's first Unified Claims Processing™ architecture, seamlessly consolidating pharmacy and medical benefit administration on a single, secure platform. By delivering true price transparency, eliminating unnecessary middleman fees, and leveraging advanced AI-powered care delivery, Judi Health helps clients achieve unprecedented operational efficiency and service levels.
At Judi Health, we're deploying the infrastructure our country needs to deliver the healthcare we all deserve. We are the intelligence platform powering benefits plans for millions of Americans and proudly leading the next generation of care. To learn more, visit www.judi.health.
Location: New York City, NY (hybrid)
Position Summary
The Forward Deployed Engineer is a developing-to-proficient technical professional who partners directly with business teams to design, build, and deliver AI agents, automations, integrations, and internal applications that solve operational problems. The role independently owns defined low- and medium-complexity use cases with guidance available for unfamiliar, high-risk, or technically complex decisions, and contributes technical expertise and business judgment to the organization's most complex initiatives. The Forward Deployed Engineer applies strong capabilities across applied AI, business technology, automation, and solution delivery to translate business needs into scalable, secure, and reusable solutions. The role works with senior team members and the AI Deployment Engineer to support production readiness and controlled deployment, while considering how each solution could serve additional functions or evolve into a client-facing capability.
Position Responsibilities:
- Business Partnership and Solution Design: Partner with business leaders and stakeholders to identify high-value opportunities, analyze workflows and pain points, and translate business needs into technical requirements and scalable solution designs for AI agents, automations, integrations, and internal applications.
- End-to-End Use Case Ownership: Independently own defined low- and medium-complexity use cases from discovery through design, development, testing, implementation, and adoption, with guidance available for unfamiliar, high-risk, or technically complex decisions.
- Complex Initiative Contribution: Partner with senior team members and the broader team on the organization's most complex use cases, contributing technical expertise, business judgment, and implementation support, and leading defined workstreams or components within larger initiatives.
- AI-Accelerated Development: Use AI agents and agentic coding tools to accelerate analysis and development, while critically evaluating outputs and applying appropriate standards for security, data privacy, quality, maintainability, and documentation.
- Scalability and Enterprise Value: Design solutions for scalability and reuse, identifying how capabilities could extend to other functions, support broader enterprise needs, or evolve into client-facing products.
- Implementation and Adoption: Support implementation, stakeholder enablement, user adoption, and value measurement; partner with the AI Deployment Engineer and relevant technology teams on production deployment, integrations, monitoring, and enterprise controls.
- Quality, Governance, and Risk: Ensure solutions comply with enterprise security, privacy, compliance, and responsible AI standards; establish appropriate testing practices and proactively identify technical, operational, and adoption risks.
- Continuous Improvement and Knowledge Sharing: Evaluate emerging AI tools and delivery practices, contribute reusable components and lessons learned to the team's shared toolkit, and provide peer support to analysts and interns.
Required Qualifications:
Education and Experience Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or another technically rigorous discipline required; an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.
- 1-3 years of experience across technology consulting, solutions engineering, applied AI, automation, business technology, software development, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience translating business needs into technical solutions and delivering defined work from requirements gathering through implementation in a business-facing environment.
- Strong hands-on experience building with large language models, AI agents, workflow automation, AI-assisted development tools, or API-based integrations.
- Experience in healthcare, pharmacy benefit management, or another regulated industry is preferred, but not required.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language, such as Python or JavaScript/TypeScript, and familiarity with modern development practices including version control and testing.
- Working knowledge of LLMs, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, agent frameworks, and agentic coding tools, with the judgment to evaluate and validate AI-generated outputs.
- Knowledge of APIs, data integration, cloud platforms, and automation tools, with the ability to connect solutions to enterprise systems and data sources.
- Understanding of business process analysis, solution design, and change adoption, along with security, data privacy, compliance, and responsible AI principles.
- Strong systems analysis and problem-solving skills, with the ability to structure ambiguous business problems and design practical, scalable solutions.
- Sound business judgment and the ability to independently manage defined use cases while escalating unfamiliar, high-risk, or architecturally significant decisions.
- Strong communication and consulting skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and build trusted cross-functional partnerships.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, contribute effectively to complex team initiatives, document work clearly, and continuously learn in a fast-changing AI environment.
Nothing in this position description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
Benefits
Judi Health provides all full-time and part-time benefit-eligible employees with the ability to elect medical and pharmacy coverage, dental insurance, vision insurance, accidental injury insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, and flexible spending accounts. Full-time employees also have access to a health savings account, voluntary life insurance, and voluntary accidental death and dismemberment insurance for themselves and their eligible dependents.
Judi Health provides full-time employees with the following benefits at no cost to the employee: basic life insurance, basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance, paid time off, sick time, holidays, short-term disability, long-term disability, an employee assistance program, and a wellness program. Full-time employees are also eligible for a 401(k) plan with company match after one year of full-time employment.
About Judi Health
Judi Health is an enterprise health technology company providing a comprehensive suite of solutions for employers and health plans, including:
- Judi Rx, a public benefit corporation delivering full-service pharmacy benefit management (PBM) solutions to self-insured employers,
- Judi Health™, which offers full-service health benefit management solutions to employers, TPAs, and health plans, and
- Judi®, the industry’s leading proprietary Enterprise Health Platform (EHP), which consolidates all claim administration-related workflows in one scalable, secure platform.
Together with our clients, we’re rebuilding trust in healthcare in the U.S. and deploying the infrastructure we need for the care we deserve.
Judi Health values a diverse workplace and celebrates the diversity that each employee brings to the table. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, medical condition, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
New York, NY Salary Range
$127,600—$159,500 USD
All employees are responsible for adherence to the Judi Health Code of Conduct including the reporting of non-compliance. This position description is designed to be flexible, allowing management the opportunity to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities as needed to best meet organizational goals.
We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, medical condition, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
By submitting an application, you agree to the retention of your personal data for consideration for a future position at Judi Health. More details about Judi Health's privacy practices can be found at https://www.judi.health/legal/privacy-policy.
