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Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • At least 3 years of experience in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, implementation engineering, technical onboarding, or a similar customer-facing technical role.
  • Strong working knowledge of APIs, data models, SQL, and integration debugging.
  • Hands-on experience integrating EDI, ERP, inventory, accounting, and freight systems.
  • Experience mapping purchase-order-to-cash workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Lead customer onboarding end to end, including discovery, integration, configuration, testing, and go-live.
  • Work directly with operations teams to map purchase-order-to-cash workflows and configure the platform to meet their needs.
  • Build and troubleshoot integrations involving EDI, ERP, inventory, accounting, and freight systems.
  • Share customer insights with engineering and help shape product improvements.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Problem Solving
  • Adaptability
  • Communication

About the company

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IndustryStaffing & Recruiting
Company size1 - 10

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Job description

About the Role

As a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, you will connect an AI-powered operations platform with customers' day-to-day workflows in the consumer packaged goods sector. You will own implementations from initial discovery through go-live, helping customers improve how they manage wholesale operations while bringing field insights back to the product team.

What You'll Do

  • Lead customer onboarding end to end, including discovery, integration, configuration, testing, and go-live.

  • Work directly with operations teams to map purchase-order-to-cash workflows and configure the platform to meet their needs.

  • Build and troubleshoot integrations involving EDI, ERP, inventory, accounting, and freight systems.

  • Turn complex operational requirements into clear data models, configurations, and product capabilities.

  • Share customer insights with engineering and help shape product improvements.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 3 years of experience in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, implementation engineering, technical onboarding, or a similar customer-facing technical role.

  • Experience owning customer onboarding from discovery through integration, configuration, testing, and launch.

  • Strong working knowledge of APIs, data models, SQL, and integration debugging, with the ability to read and write code.

  • Hands-on experience integrating EDI, ERP, inventory, accounting, and freight systems.

  • Experience mapping purchase-order-to-cash workflows and translating operational needs into technical configurations.

  • CPG, supply chain, logistics, or ERP experience is a plus. Comfort with ambiguity, changing needs, and hands-on customer problem solving is important.

Compensation & Benefits

Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Location

This is an on-site role based in New York, United States.

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Marcus Rivera

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