Staff Forward Deployed AI Solutions Engineer at Natera
$152,100–$190,100
Jul 27, 2026
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Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A forward-deployed engineer embedded within a specific business domain (e.g., Commercial, Clinical, Lab Operations) who identifies high-leverage automation opportunities, then designs, builds, and operates AI agent workflows and integration pipelines in production. The role spans the full lifecycle — from mapping workflows and building the business case, to connecting enterprise systems via APIs and MCP servers, to owning agent performance through evals, observability, and iteration. Best suited to a technically strong generalist comfortable bridging engineering and business stakeholders.
Senior level · Full-time
Pay in the description: $152,100–$190,100
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 3 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
Three salary bands are given (standard, higher, and lower cost-of-living areas); the standard band ($152,100–$190,100) is reported here. The higher-COL band is $167,300–$209,100 and the lower-COL band is $136,900–$171,100. Bonus and equity are also included but not quantified.
The title uses 'Staff' but the requirements — no stated years of experience, no org-wide technical authority, no cross-team scope — are consistent with a Senior individual contributor. Seniority is assessed as Senior accordingly.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is primarily about building and shipping AI agent/automation software (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but the forward-deployed, solutions-engineering framing with heavy business-domain partnership could also fit 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other). 15-1252 was chosen because the dominant day-to-day work is writing and deploying code.
Agentic platforms (CrewAI, LangChain, AWS Bedrock, Claude, Codex) and enterprise system types (CRM, ERP) appear only under 'Nice to have' and are marked preferred.
'Evals' and 'observability' are core responsibilities described throughout the posting but name no specific tool or platform, so they are not emitted as discrete skills per the schema rules.
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