Collate

Forward Deployed Engineer

We captured this posting once, on 2026-05-22, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.

Employer
Collate
Location
San Francisco, CA
Seniority
Not stated
Experience asked for
Not stated
Pay band
$150K – $300K

When we saw it

  • Posted 2026-05-07 — the date the employer published it
  • Archived 2026-05-22 — when we saved this copy

Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.

Skills the posting named

prompt engineeringagent developmentevaluation frameworksdeploymentscopingrolloutcollaborationproduction AI systemsevaluation loopscommunication skillsgopostgresql

From the posting

About Collate Collate is an AI document generation platform for life sciences. We automate paperwork with AI, helping our customers get life-saving innovations to patients years faster. Collate is an end-to-end solution, powering every step of drug, diagnostic, and medical device development—from concept to market. Our CEO Surbhi Sarna is a former General Partner at Y Combinator. Surbhi founded nVision Medical, which developed a new method to detect ovarian cancer and was acquired by Boston Scientific. Our CTO Nate Smith is a former Visiting Partner at Y Combinator and founder of Lever. Our AI researchers, engineers, and designers have worked at Google, Nvidia, Meta, Netflix, Amazon, AirBnB, Hippocratic AI, and Grail, and 40% of our team are former founders. …

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