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A Genzeon Healthcare FDE Pod is a startup-style team of 4–5 people — typically 1–2 Domain Operators (DOs) and 2–3 Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) — that delivers a measurable healthcare AI outcome in 4 to 12 weeks. Two roles, one outcome-accountable pod, embedded inside a payer or provider. We keep both roles open year-round, because they're the ones that compound the platform. If you're among the best in the industry at one of them, the door is always open.
Two roles. One pod. Outcomes in 4 to 12 weeks.
We don't body-shop individual engineers and we don't run a 30-person services army. A Genzeon Healthcare FDE Pod is sized like a startup team that has to ship: small, senior, and accountable for an outcome, not a timesheet. Mostly 4–5 people, two role types, embedded with the customer, delivering a working production result inside a 4-to-12-week window.
Domain Operator (DO)
The healthcare domain expert in the pod — someone who has actually run prior authorization, utilization management, claims, denials, revenue cycle, or clinical operations. The DO translates the customer's real workflow, regulatory constraints, and definition of success into what the pod builds, and owns the relationship with the people who live that workflow every day.
It's our operator-grade answer to the deployment-strategist role Palantir popularized — but staffed with people who have lived the healthcare workflow, not just managed a project plan.
Certified, not just experienced: Domain Operators complete Genzeon’s own domain curriculum, published openly at the Healthcare Brain Academy.
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
The Claude-First engineer who embeds inside the customer's environment and ships production code against regulated healthcare workflows — reading FHIR PAS bundles, debugging LCDs, and building audit-grade agentic systems from day one. The same population that built and runs the WISeR Medicare deployment.
Claude Code is mandated; the FDE owns the outcome end-to-end, not just the deployment.
Certified, not just experienced: our Forward Deployed Engineers are Claude Architect–certified through the Anthropic Academy — a growing team.
Expertise, talent, and attitude.
The bar is the same for both roles, even though the expertise differs: be among the best in the industry at what you do, and bring the temperament that makes embedded work succeed.
Earned, not credentialed
DOs: real operating experience inside payer or provider workflows — PA, UM, claims, denials, revenue cycle, clinical ops. You've felt the friction you'll now help remove.
FDEs: production engineering chops — agentic systems, healthcare data (FHIR/HL7, X12), cloud, audit-grade testing. You ship code that holds up under regulatory scrutiny.
High-agency, fast-learning
You operate with minimal supervision and make good decisions in ambiguity. You can pick up an entirely novel problem — a new criteria set, a new payer policy, a new integration — and make progress without a playbook. Domain leverage over keystroke volume; one good decision can save a thousand lines.
Outcome-obsessed, customer-embedded
You own the result, not the ticket. You're comfortable on-site and on-camera with clinicians, CISOs, and CFOs in the same day. You leave every customer more capable than you found them. And you carry a healthy disregard for the status quo — the workflow is broken, and you're here to fix it.
Why 4 to 12 weeks.
Healthcare AI dies in 18-month transformation programs. The FDE Pod model exists to compress that: a small, senior pod embeds, scopes a bounded problem, and ships a measurable production outcome in a 4-to-12-week window — then either hands off to the customer's team or scopes the next outcome. Short cycles keep the work honest, keep the customer close, and keep the feedback loop to product tight.
It's the same discipline that produced the WISeR Medicare deployment: live in CMS production, 12,609 prior-authorization cases in Q1 2026, 100% three-day turnaround, zero auto-denials. Outcomes, on a clock.
Among the best in the industry at one of these?
We keep Forward Deployed Engineer and Domain Operator roles open year-round. If that's you, the door is open — reach out and tell us what you've shipped or operated.