Forward Deployed Engineer in Basel

About Prudentia Sciences

Prudentia Sciences is the scientific intelligence layer powering life sciences dealmaking.

We bring together expert-developed scientific diligence frameworks, AI reasoning trained on drug development, and a unified evidence base to accelerate investment in breakthrough therapies.

As a trusted third party operating between buyer and seller, we help build conviction through every stage of the deal, faster.

We replace fragmented workflows with a single system that surfaces what matters earlier.

About Prudentia Sciences

Prudentia Sciences is the scientific intelligence layer powering life sciences dealmaking.

We bring together expert-developed scientific diligence frameworks, AI reasoning trained on drug development, and a unified evidence base to accelerate investment in breakthrough therapies.

As a trusted third party operating between buyer and seller, we help build conviction through every stage of the deal, faster.

We replace fragmented workflows with a single system that surfaces what matters earlier.

The Opportunity

Our clients don't buy software in the abstract.

A BD team at a top-20 pharma company, a biotech evaluating its pipeline, or an investment fund running diligence on a drug asset each arrives with its own data, its own workflows, its own security review, and its own definition of a good answer.

Closing the gap between what our platform does out of the box and what that client needs this quarter is engineering work, and it's this role.

• Why This Role is Hard (in a Good Way)
• Sophisticated, high-stakes users: BD leaders, portfolio strategists, scientists, and investors who know the domain cold and will spot a wrong number immediately.

Trust is earned one answer at a time.

• Messy enterprise reality: client data in internal systems, data rooms, spreadsheets, and licensed databases; SSO and security reviews; IT teams with their own timelines and constraints.
• AI that has to be right: applying LLMs and retrieval to clinical trial data, scientific literature, deal history, and multi-language sources, where hallucination isn't a quirk but a credibility risk.
• A product still taking shape: every engagement is a chance to decide whether something should be a one-off configuration, a reusable pattern, or a core platform feature.

You'll help make that call.

• What You'll Own
• Client Deployment & Integration
• Lead the technical side of client onboarding and deployment, from discovery and scoping through go-live and expansion.
• Integrate Prudentia with client systems and data: internal databases, data rooms, document repositories, licensed datasets, and identity providers, working within their security and compliance requirements.
• Build client-specific workflows, configurations, models, and extensions on top of our AWS-based platform, written to production standards rather than as throwaway scripts.
• Applied AI & Data in the Field
• Apply our AI capabilities (LLMs, retrieval, extraction, scenario and risk modeling) to client-specific questions, and evaluate whether the outputs are accurate and defensible.
• Partner with the data team on onboarding new client and third-party data sources, and on the provenance and quality standards that let clients trust the results.
• Build evaluations and guardrails for client use cases so that quality is measured, not assumed.
• Product Feedback Loop
• Be the field's voice in engineering and product: bring back patterns, gaps, and requests with enough technical depth that they can be acted on.
• Turn repeated one-off solutions into reusable components, templates, and platform features, contributing directly to the core codebase.
• Help decide what should be productized, what should stay configurable, and what we should say no to.
• Trusted Technical Advisor
• Act as the technical point of contact for your accounts, from day-to-day users through to executive sponsors.
• Support the commercial team in pre-sales technical discovery, pilots, and proofs of value with strategic prospects.
• Help build the forward deployed playbook, and help shape the team as it grows.

Who You Are

Essential Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful time in client-facing, forward deployed, solutions engineering, or technical consulting roles where you shipped code that clients depended on.
• Strong full-stack or backend engineering skills: Python and SQL as a minimum, comfort with APIs and integrations, and the ability to work across a modern web stack.
• Hands-on AWS experience: you've deployed and operated production systems on AWS and can reason about security, networking, and cost in client environments.
• Practical experience with LLMs and AI applications: retrieval, prompting, extraction, evaluation, and the judgment to know when an AI output is good enough to put in front of a client.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical audiences: you can run a working session with scientists or investors, then explain the tradeoffs to engineers.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ownership: you thrive when the problem isn't fully specified and the client is waiting on you to define it.
• Bonus Points
• Experience in life sciences, biopharma, healthcare, or financial services, especially with clinical trial, scientific literature, or deal data.
• Experience with enterprise integration patterns: SSO/SAML, data room APIs, data pipelines, and security questionnaires.
• Experience at an early-stage or high-growth startup where you helped define a function rather than join an established one.

What We Offer

• Impact: Your work directly enables breakthrough therapies to reach patients faster
• Ownership: Build and lead the platform as a foundational engineering leader
• Growth: Shape our product experience during a critical scaling phase
• Compensation: Competitive salary and equity
• Team: Collaborative, mission-driven colleagues passionate about transforming biopharma
• Location

We are strongly prioritizing candidates based in London (UK), Dublin (Ireland), or Basel (Switzerland) to support our EU-based clients.

If we find truly exceptional talent in the US, we may consider fully remote in Eastern Time Zone in the United States.

Compensation