Forward Deployed Engineer

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ABOUT M7 HEALTH

M7 Health is the AI-powered workforce operations platform for healthcare, designed for the realities of clinical staffing and scheduling. We use AI to help organizations forecast demand, auto-balance schedules, and deploy the right person to fill every shift before resorting to premium labor spend. The result: health systems reduce overtime, cut contract labor costs, and give clinical leaders time back to focus on care. Built with the earned wisdom of nurses, M7 serves tens of thousands of healthcare professionals daily and activated over 100 net new hospitals across 29 states, last year alone.

In September 2026, M7 was acquired by Ascend Learning and joined its Healthcare Workforce Solutions practice alongside Laudio and StaffGarden. Ascend already works with 60% of U.S. nursing schools. Together, we're connecting the entire clinical career, from the classroom to the first shift and every shift after, with the reach and resources to take on healthcare's biggest workforce problems at national scale.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to own the technical customer relationship with the health systems M7 connects to. You'll work directly with customer IT, payroll, HR, and business application teams to understand how their workforce data and workflows move today. You'll figure out exactly what M7 needs to support, then turn that into an integration approach our engineers can build against, across HRIS, time and attendance, SSO, and EMR systems.

During a launch, you're embedded with Activations, building integration workflows in lockstep with the operational workflows they're standing up with nursing leadership. You're also the technical utility player on every launch: if a script, query, or quick fix will get a customer live faster, you're the one who makes it happen.

Beyond individual launches, you'll help shape M7's integrations strategy: which systems and patterns we standardize on, where we invest in reusable capabilities versus one-off solutions, and how we scope integration commitments with new customers. Product owns the roadmap, but you'll have an active role in those decisions, bringing the most direct view of what customers actually need.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Own technical customer relationships

• Serve as the primary technical counterpart for customer IT, payroll, HR, and business application teams from late-stage sales through go-live and beyond
• Run discovery with customer stakeholders to map current-state workflows (how a new hire flows from the HRIS, how hours and pay codes reach payroll, how users authenticate) and identify the integrations M7 must support
• Review customer technical specs, interface documentation, and vendor API docs to assess what's feasible, what's required, and where the risks are
• Support late-stage sales cycles, security reviews, and RFP responses so integration commitments are accurate before contracting

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• Structured and accountable: You track open items across concurrent launches, flag risk early, and drive to closure without being chased.
• AI-Native: You actively use AI in your daily workflow, from writing code to documenting customer environments, and bring that mindset to how the team operates.
• Attitude and Culture: You are aligned with M7's values: you act with urgency, bring relentless curiosity, lead with kindness, and hold yourself to a high standard of craft. You're passionate about the mission of making health systems stronger and show it every day.

NICE TO HAVES

• Direct UKG experience: Hands-on familiarity with UKG data models (employee records, scheduling data, T&A feeds, pay rules).
• Health system IT background: Experience inside a hospital IT, payroll, or HRIS team, or at a healthcare SaaS company, and an understanding of how large hospital networks make integration decisions.
• Software engineering experience: You've worked as a software engineer and can write Python or TypeScript to transform data, debug a feed, or prove out an approach. Bonus for familiarity with our stack (TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, AWS).
• Startup experience: Comfort building structure from scratch in a fast-moving environment.

LOCATION

This role is open to both remote and New York-based candidates.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

This role offers industry-competitive compensation, including cash compensation, annual performance-based bonus, and healthcare benefits.

WORK AUTHORIZATION

You must be authorized to work in the United States.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

At M7 Health, we aim to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to a better environment for our people and a better product for our clients. M7 Health is an equal-opportunity employer and encourages all applicants from every background and life experience to apply.