Software Engineer, Forward
Devices
$100-220k
Plus equity
Membership-based preventative health care service
Job no longer available
Membership-based preventative health care service
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$100-220k
Plus equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make high quality healthcare available to a billion people across the globe.
Role
Who you are
- Impact - You’re deeply mission-driven and you think there’s more to life than software that enables puppy ears to be superimposed on photos. Although we concede those are cute
- Smart devices - You have experience developing production software involving several levels of the protocol stack, anywhere from serial I/O and microcontrollers to websockets and MQTT. You are familiar with sensors and actuators, device swarming, and maybe even gesture recognition algorithms
- Product passion - You care about the bits you ship ending up in users’ hands. You don’t really need a product manager because you’re basically one yourself
- Entrepreneurship - You’re a self-starter who loves to own things end-to-end. You don’t ask for permission - you’re too busy making things happen
- Team player - You know how to make those around you better and feed off their energy. You take care of your teammates
- Curiosity - You like to mess around with hardware hacking, Bluetooth/BLE, or bioinformatics in your free time? You reverse engineered your connected insulin pump? Girl, have we got some fun things for you…
- You have a BS, MS or PhD in computer science or a related technical field with focus on embedded systems, physical sensor deployment, or medical device integration
- 3+ years engineering experience working in a related field
What the job involves
- Tackle problems on the boundary of software, hardware, and the real world
- Develop and visualize interfaces for all stages of user experience, from displaying the waveform of a heartbeat to interpreting thermal images of a human face
- Collaborate with domain experts across everything from board manufacturing to UIs for intuitive human-computer interaction in a healthcare context
- Work with top-flight software and hardware engineering talent from places like Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Palantir, and NASA JPL
- Own entire projects while working alongside cross-functional teams of doctors, designers, and operators
- Your work will directly contribute to saving and improving people’s lives
Our take
Many believe the global healthcare system is inadequate, expensive and in need of a new approach. It's not only important to provide reactive care, but also to prevent catastrophes from happening.
Forward is a medical startup that prioritizes preventative care and focuses on improving how healthcare works in order to lower costs. It relies on technology and AI to consolidate patients' medical records and monitor health risks. Patients pay a monthly fee for membership and can monitor their preventative care plan on the Forward app.
The healthcare industry is estimated to be worth over $10 trillion. The company plans to build the first billion-person healthcare system on top of its platform, changing it from a service to a product. Disrupting the industry is one thing, but reinventing the healthcare system with such an ambitious mission is a huge challenge, even if it does have more than $325 million in funding from investment firms and celebrities alike.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2023
$100m
LATE VC
Mar 2021
$225m
SERIES D
Total funding: $325m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Adrian Aoun
(CEO)Studied Philosophy, Computer Science and Computer Engineering at USC. Started out as a Program Manager at Microsoft, and co-founded Google-acquired Wavii. Served as a White House advisor in 2015, and founded Sidewalk Labs, an Alphabet company. Worked in Google's AI division, and then became Director of Special Projects for the CEO.
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