Forward Deployment Engineer

The Senior FDE Lead will be the embedded client-facing technical builder who converts Model Office and design decisions rapidly into working configurations, AI workflows, prototypes and demonstrations. This person needs the unusual combination of software/AI engineering ability, solution architecture, rapid prototyping and client presence .

The FDE Lead should be comfortable sitting in a client design session, understanding a requirement, translating it into a technical approach, building or configuring it rapidly, testing it with users, learning from the results and iterating in near-real time. This is emphatically not a traditional project manager or solution architect who hands requirements to an offshore development team.

The person must be able to build.

Key Responsibilities

Embed directly with Centene functional, clinical and technology teams. Translate Model Office decisions into working sandbox configurations and prototypes. Develop and configure AI-enabled workflows and agents. Write code where required to integrate, prototype or extend platform capabilities. Rapidly prototype solutions during design cycles.

Test AI outputs and workflow behavior against expected outcomes. Build evaluation approaches and use results to improve prompts, models, agents and workflow logic. Work with business/clinical users to gather feedback and iterate rapidly. Troubleshoot issues across configuration, APIs, data, AI behavior and workflow orchestration.

Maintain and prioritize the configuration/FDE backlog. Lead other FDEs and potentially coach Nexus Fellows. Partner with core Product and Engineering teams when prototype/configuration work needs to become hardened product functionality. Demonstrate working functionality directly to client stakeholders. Technical Profile Candidates should have meaningful hands-on experience with several of the following: Python Modern LLM APIs and frameworks Agentic AI / orchestration Prompt and context engineering AI evaluation/testing APIs and integration JSON / data transformation SQL and data analysis Cloud environments Rapid prototyping Workflow/configuration platforms Git and modern software-development practices Healthcare experience is helpful but technical capability and FDE mentality are more important for this role.