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# Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** Opinr, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Data Mapping, Software Debugging, RAID, JSON, Python (Programming Language), Regression Testing, Large Language Models, Restful APIs, Webhooks
- **Published:** October 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/job/forward-deployed-engineer/11550411?handler=ApplyRedirect

## About the Role

* Experience: 3+ years in customer-facing technical delivery - forward deployed engineering, solutions architecture, implementation consulting, or technical professional services.
 * Hands-on technical skills: Comfortable with REST APIs, JSON, webhooks, and data mapping; able to script in Python or JavaScript and debug a failure across two systems you didn't build.
 * Production LLM experience: You've worked with LLMs in production rather than in demos - prompts, retrieval, agent workflows, and evaluating output systematically rather than by vibes.
 * Product-centric & shipping-biased: You think about the user in front of the screen, not the requirement in the document, and favor shipping something usable and iterating over shipping something perfect and late.
 * Delivery fluency: You've carried a go-live date in front of a customer, so project plans, RAID logs, phase gates, test scenarios and cases, SIT, UAT, and regression testing are familiar ground.
 * Communication: Thoughtful and streamlined - you listen first, hold your own with a Chief Procurement Officer, privacy counsel, and security architect in the same room, and can say no to a customer and keep the relationship stronger for it.
 * Domain knowledge (a plus): Third-party risk, procurement, or compliance experience helps - we'll teach you the rest.

## Description

* Document & optimize it: Map the current state and agree a target state against the metrics customers actually care about - onboarding cycle time, assessment turnaround, reviewer effort, audit readiness. You're not there to digitize a bad process faithfully, and a workflow that's technically correct but painful to use won't get adopted - so reviewer effort and drop-off are your problem, not theirs.
 * Configure & automate it in Certa: Build the workflows, forms, logic, risk scoring, and approvals in Studio using Vibe Configuration - live in the room wherever possible - plus the integrations and data flows into existing systems, and debug them when they break.
 * Own the delivery: Own the plan, governance, and test cycle (scenarios and cases, SIT, UAT with the customer's own testers, sanity and regression), then cutover, go-live, hypercare, and a clean handover - accountable for the date and the success metrics behind it.
 * Bring learning back from the front lines: Find the platform's real limits before anyone else does and bring them to Product with evidence - the customer, the frequency, the cost of the workaround - and turn what you built into templates and accelerators, so the next deployment starts ahead of where yours did.