Forward Deployed Engineer

Segmed’s mission is to bring higher quality healthcare to millions of more patients around the world. We are revolutionizing healthcare research by building a medical AI development platform with secure and easy data access. We see a future where medical AI helps people get a better standard of care no matter where they are in the world, and we hope you do, too! We are a fast-growing startup in a quickly evolving field and we came out of Stanford and Y Combinator. We're a 100% remote and distributed team.

Position Summary: We’re looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to join a critical product team within Segmed where you will use Linux, DevOps engineering skills and an engineering mindset to shape the future of healthcare. This role is in the center of Segmed’s mission and you’ll help shape our innovative health tech startup.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• You will use developer efficiency engineering skills to help our software engineers deploy and debug Segmed products that we ship to production systems on-prem and in the cloud.
• You will develop, document, test, and validate interfaces
• You will collaborate with Engineering and Product Teams to ensure that our product roadmap positions us well for seamless integrations with VNA, PACS, and RIS systems.
• You will read documentation of commercial VNA, PACS, and RIS systems and suggest product features allowing us to integrate the Segmed data pipeline in a hands-off way at our hospital partners. The goal is to be able to receive archival and real-time data from a wide range of clinical facilities.
• You will help us match the level of quality and ease of integrations with commercial radiology IT systems. In doing so, you’ll ensure that Segmed solutions meet industry requirements of radiology IT systems (security, networking protocols, configuration).
• You will work with Engineers, Product Managers, Project Managers, and Hospital Partnerships, to ensure that Segmed system integrations are carried on time and on budget, and pitch in with suggestions, ideas and improvements to our integration pipeline.

Some things you might work on include:

• Install, configure, test interface linkages on EMR and EHR customer projects
• Data flow and data migration between Segmed and our clients (between RIS, PACS, and EMR systems)
• Development of new interfaces and the support of existing systems
• Set up VPN of on prem computers, install the software, collaborate with hospitals

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge with at least one scripting programming language (Python, Ruby, Perl)
• Experience with UNIX and GNU/Linux systems administration and maintenance

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Hands-on knowledge and understanding of challenges of software development lifecycle (design, architecture, development, testing, deployment, maintenance)
• Superior attention to detail
• Excellent communicator, both interpersonal and written
• Well organized and able to juggle many projects at once
• People skills - you must be a team player and get to know the wider Segmed team
• Ability to work efficiently in a remote environment (Slack, JIRA, GitLab)

Extras:

• Ability and interest at the intersection of software engineering, integration, and architecture
• Experience with at least one compiled language (C#, Java, C++, Go)
• Understanding of data flow in healthcare institutions between RIS, PACS, and EMR systems
• Knowledge of radiology workflows
• Expertise with integrating one or more PACS and RIS systems from multiple vendors (Ambra, Intelerad, Agfa, Philips, GE, Visage, Novarad, Konica Minolta, Merge, Radsource, Carestream)
• Demonstrated ability integrating one or more EMR systems (Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts)
• Knowledge of medical IT infrastructure and challenges in architecting it
• Experience working with the HL7 data exchange standard

Benefits:

• Segmed is a global and entirely remote company
• Comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401K with match, options, and other voluntary benefits offerings

Segmed Values

• Transparency: We tell it like it is, good or bad
• Social Good: People first
• Learning Mentality: We acknowledge what we don’t know and find out
• Integrity: Do the right thing even if no one’s watching

The Segmed team is international. We have team members from a huge variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We consider equal opportunities essential. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.