Forward Deployed Engineer - Pharma Commercial

Location: Remote India

Department: Engineering

Location Type: REMOTE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Overview

Responsibilities

• Work directly with clients and internal teams to implement and customize product solutions for commercial analytics use cases.
• Translate client business questions into data models, analyses, and product features.
• Serve as the technical bridge between client teams, product, and engineering.

• Write and optimize SQL queries to analyze large healthcare and commercial datasets.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis to identify patterns, opportunities, and insights.
• Build analytical workflows that support product capabilities and client needs.

• Use LLM-based tools and workflows to accelerate data analysis, insight generation, and knowledge extraction.
• Design prompts and workflows that combine structured data with AI-assisted analysis.
• Support development of AI-enabled analytics features within the product.

• Work with product and engineering teams to translate client feedback into scalable product features.
• Prototype analytical workflows that may evolve into product capabilities.
• Contribute to product roadmap discussions based on client usage and market needs.

• Present insights and recommendations to internal and client stakeholders.
• Translate complex analytical outputs into clear business implications.
• Collaborate cross-functionally across product, engineering, and founders directly.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.

• Minimum 2 years of experience in analytics, consulting, data science, or data engineering specifically in Pharma Commercial data.
• Pharma Commercial data experience is a must-have requirement
• Experience working with SQL and structured datasets.
• Experience with AI ranking
• Basic programming skills in Python, R, or similar languages.
• Familiarity with LLM tools, AI-assisted analysis, or prompt-based workflows is preferred.

• Exposure to pharmaceutical or healthcare commercial data (sales, claims, patient-level data, target lists etc.) is a pre-requisite.
• Understanding of commercial analytics, forecasting, or market access workflows is preferred.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work in ambiguous, client-facing environments.
• Strong communication and storytelling with data.
• Comfort working across technical and business stakeholders.

What Makes This Role Unique

• Work directly with clients to shape how a product is used in real-world environments.
• Blend consulting-style analytics with product development.
• Apply modern AI and LLM tools to commercial data problems.
• Help build the next generation of AI-driven analytics platforms for life sciences.