Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) Careers at Axtria | Build AI That Runs Inside Pharma

Be the engineer who ships production AI inside the world's biggest pharma companies. Not a pilot, not a slide deck. Real systems, real clients, real impact on patients.

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150+

global pharma & life sciences clients

1,000

certified FDE workforce vision

Axtria global regions hiring right now

A Forward Deployed Engineer isn't a consultant. It's an engineer who ships.

FDEs sit inside the client's world, not behind a slide deck. You write the code, you deploy it into the client's environment, and you watch it change something real, this week, not next quarter.

You build where it matters

You're embedded directly with a pharma client's commercial, medical affairs, or market access team, building the AI system they'll actually run their business on.

You speak two languages

Production-grade AI engineering on one side. Pharma domain fluency, HCP targeting, territory design, GxP governance, on the other. Both, not either.

You own outcomes, not tickets

Success isn't a demo. It's a system live in production that a client's sales, medical, or access team depends on every single day.

You move at engineering speed

Weeks, not years. Axtria FDEs are known for going from client problem to working, governed AI system faster than anyone else in this industry.

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What actually happens on a ‘Tuesday’ Lead

Every FDE's day looks different depending on the client, but here's a real shape of one, deploying an agentic AI assistant for a pharma medical affairs team.

08:45 AM

STANDUP

Sync with the client's 'medical affairs / commercial' lead on yesterday's model output review.

09:30 AM

BUILD

Ship an update to the 'MLR-compliant' response agent, directly inside the client's own cloud environment.

11:15 AM

DOMAIN

Pull in a 'medical affairs / commercial' SME to validate that a flagged edge case in field query responses meets label guidance.

1:00 PM

DEPLOY

Push the update through governance, live to production, no pilot environment, no sandbox.

3:00 PM

LEARN

Axtria Institute session: certification module on agent evaluation frameworks with Anthropic / AWS / Databricks / LangChain / Microsoft / Snowflake applied team.

5:30 PM

IMPACT

Client's 'medical / commercial' information team logs 40% faster response time on complex field queries this week.

Pharma has AI ambition. It doesn't have enough people who can ship it.

Every large pharma and biotech company has AI pilots running somewhere across commercial and medical affairs right now. Very few have gotten them into governed production. The gap isn't the models. It's the people who can operate inside a regulated pharma environment and still ship production-grade systems.

That's the exact gap Axtria built the FDE role to close, and it's why the company is scaling this team to 1,000 by December 2026, the largest team of its kind purpose-built for pharma. Not a new experiment. The team that's already proven this model works, growing to meet demand.

Join now and you're not walking into a pilot. You're walking into a role the industry already depends on, with room to grow as it scales around you.

"Our FDEs aren't running pilots anymore, they're running production systems clients depend on every day. Scaling to 1,000 is us giving more of our own people, and the industry, more of what's already working."— Navi Chadha, CTO & Co-founder, Axtria

Certifications. Cutting-edge work.
Front of the line.

Certified, not just trained

Get certified through the Axtria Institute on the platforms actually shaping this decade, backed by direct partnerships, not generic online courses.

Frontier tools, day one

Work hands-on with the newest agentic AI models and infrastructure before most of the industry has access to them.

Front of the line

FDEs get first access to the highest-visibility client engagements, the ones leadership and clients are watching closely.

Fast-track growth

A structured path from domain expert to certified AI engineer to technical lead, with rewards tied to real production impact.

Built on what you already know

If you're already an Axtrian, this role is designed to grow on top of your pharma expertise, not replace it.

Work that matters

Every system you ship changes something for a sales rep, a medical affairs team, or ultimately, a patient.

Be an FDE. Be the future of pharma.

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Build. Deploy. Transform pharma.