Forward Deployed Engineer

Company Overview

Beacon Biosignals is on a mission to revolutionize precision medicine for the brain. We are the leading at-home EEG platform supporting clinical development of novel therapeutics for neurological, psychiatric, and sleep disorders.

Job Overview

Beacon Biosignals is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Datastore team. The Datastore sits at the heart of Beacon’s platform, defining our foundational data model and serving as the centralized repository and API for brain data collected from clinical studies and home sleep tests.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with external partners to understand their technical use cases, guide integrations with our APIs and datasets, and develop integrated solutions.
• Collaborate closely with Datastore engineers, product managers, and scientific teams to translate partner needs into robust data models, tools, and workflows.
• Develop PoCs and production-ready code, build analyses and dashboards, and create integration tooling.
• Lead technical conversations with partner engineers and data teams, supporting API integrations and successful adoption of data access patterns.
• Design and implement solutions for customers, sometimes on the Beacon platform and sometimes on the customer’s platform.
• Improve documentation, APIs, data models, and operational processes based on feedback from partners and internal stakeholders.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience developing and supporting data platform solutions.
• 3+ years in a customer-facing role, developing and managing customer relationships.
• Strong proficiency in SQL, with hands-on experience designing and maintaining analytical or operational data models.
• Experience working directly with customers or external stakeholders to solve data-related problems.
• Proficiency in a data-oriented programming language such as Python, Julia, or R.
• Familiarity with APIs and data integration patterns (GraphQL or REST, batch exports and ELT/ETL).
• Experience with modern analytics and BI tools such as Snowflake, Superset, Looker, or similar platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Salary

The salary range for this role is $150,000 - 170,000. Salary ranges are determined using current market compensation data for this role and adjusted based on experience, skills, and location.