Associate Director, Forward Deployed GenAI (Life Sciences)

Location: New York, NY, United States

Salary: $192,000–$288,000 annually, plus an annual discretionary performance bonus.

Company

hirify.global combines life sciences expertise, human consulting, and a technology platform to support pharmaceutical, biotech, and medtech commercialization.

What you will do

• Embed with biopharma and Life Sciences clients to identify unmet needs and translate business challenges into engineered solutions.
• Rapidly prototype GenAI applications, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and data integrations using client data.
• Own delivery from discovery and whiteboarding through production-ready code, demonstrations, feedback, and handoff to product.
• Move between client engagements and product sprints as priorities change.
• Document reusable patterns and feed field learnings and components back into the product.
• Mentor and coach a group of 3–4 junior forward-deployed engineers through pairing, code reviews, onboarding, and technical guidance.

Requirements

• 8–12 years of professional software engineering experience and a record of shipping production-quality systems.
• Experience mentoring or leading small engineering teams, formally or informally.
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or Node and React, plus fluency with Azure, AWS, or GCP cloud services.
• Hands-on experience building or integrating GenAI systems, including LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, agentic architectures, or multimodal pipelines.
• Experience presenting to non-technical stakeholders and working effectively in client-facing environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Experience in Life Sciences or Biotech, including familiarity with commercial models and stakeholder goals.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in collaborative pods with a Solution Lead and domain subject-matter expert on every client engagement.
• Follow a structured onboarding path covering product fluency, shadowing, and progressively leading engagements.
• Contribute directly to team culture, practices, and the development of the forward-deployed engineering cohort.
• Field-built solutions can become product features with an industry-wide impact.
• Employment includes eligibility for an annual discretionary performance bonus.