Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Remote Build)

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Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
53K-216K Annually
Senior level
HR Tech
Remote is the simple, secure platform to find, hire, manage, and pay talent anywhere, seamlessly and compliantly.
The Role
Partner with customers to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI-enabled integrations, automations, and agentic workflows; own deployments, reliability, observability, evaluation, and convert one-off solutions into reusable playbooks and product inputs.
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About Remote
Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.
With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.
We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.
 
If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!
What this job can offer you

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (AI) at Remote, you will work directly with customers and internal stakeholders to design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions that connect Remote’s platform to customer systems and workflows. You will turn messy, real-world requirements into production-grade implementations — often by building integrations, automations, and agentic workflows — and you’ll translate field learnings back into reusable patterns and product roadmap inputs.

  • High autonomy and direct ownership of customer outcomes — from discovery through production rollout
  • Work at the frontier of practical AI: shipping systems that are reliable, observable, secure, and measurable
  • A seat at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Sales/CS, and customer teams — with clear influence on what we build next
  • Exposure to a wide set of domains (HR, payroll, finance ops, IT, integrations) and complex enterprise ecosystems
  • A remote-first environment with strong documentation culture and high trust
What you bring
  • Must have
    • Demonstrated experience shipping production software (backend and/or full-stack) and owning it in production (on-call mindset, debugging, instrumentation)
    • Strong integration and systems thinking: APIs, event-driven systems, webhooks, auth (OAuth/service accounts), data modeling, idempotency, and failure modes
    • Applied AI/LLM experience beyond prototypes: prompt+tool design, RAG and retrieval patterns, evaluation, latency/cost trade-offs, and reliability practices
    • Ability to operate in ambiguity: you can go from “problem statement” to “shipped solution” with minimal hand-holding
    • Clear, structured communication in writing; ability to explain trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
    Nice to have
    • Experience with enterprise environments (security reviews, compliance constraints, procurement, change management)
    • Experience building with agent frameworks and/or workflow orchestration systems
    • Familiarity with HRIS, payroll, identity/access management, or adjacent enterprise domains
    • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, RBAC, and data privacy by design
Key Responsibilities
  • Partner with customers to understand operational challenges, constraints, and success criteria; run structured technical discovery and define the “definition of done”
  • Translate open-ended problems into clear technical designs and implementation plans (architecture, data flows, integration surfaces, security considerations, rollout strategy)
  • Build AI-enabled solutions that integrate with customer systems and Remote’s platform (e.g., data pipelines, workflow automations, tool integrations, agentic services) and perform real tasks end-to-end
  • Own deployments including reliability, performance, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement
  • Develop evaluation and measurement for AI behavior: success metrics, test harnesses, golden datasets, regression suites, and guardrails (quality, safety, privacy)
  • Work with real data to validate outputs, quantify impact, and iterate quickly based on evidence
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product and Engineering to ship high-quality solutions and to upstream reusable components
  • Create leverage by turning one-off solutions into repeatable playbooks, reference architectures, templates, and internal tooling
  • Be the voice of the field: bring back concrete customer needs, edge cases, and constraints that should shape product strategy
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Practicals
  • Team: Remote Build / Customer Engineering (or equivalent)
  • Location: Remote
  • Time zones: Ability to overlap with customer working hours as needed
  • Travel: Whilst the majority of the work is Remote, please expect around 10% of travel for customer engagements
  • Start date: As soon as possible
Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce.  We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.
The base salary range for this full-time position is $53,300 to $215,750. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.
At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

Application process
  1. Recruiter screen
  2. Hiring Manager interview
  3. Technical challenge
  4. Team interview
  5. Bar Raiser interview 
  6. Executive interview 
  7. Prior employment verification check 
Benefits
Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:
  • work from anywhere
  • flexible paid time off
  • flexible working hours (we are async)
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • mental health support services
  • stock options
  • learning budget
  • home office budget & IT equipment
  • budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces
How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply
  1. Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
  2. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
  3. If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here. 
Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis. 

Skills Required

  • Demonstrated experience shipping production software (backend and/or full-stack) and owning it in production, including on-call, debugging, and instrumentation.
  • Strong integration and systems thinking: APIs, event-driven systems, webhooks, auth (OAuth/service accounts), data modeling, idempotency, and failure-mode handling.
  • Applied AI/LLM experience beyond prototypes: prompt and tool design, RAG/retrieval patterns, evaluation, latency/cost trade-offs, and reliability practices.
  • Ability to operate in ambiguity and deliver end-to-end solutions from problem statement to production with minimal supervision.
  • Clear, structured written communication; ability to explain technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience with enterprise environments (security reviews, compliance, procurement, change management).
  • Experience building with agent frameworks and/or workflow orchestration systems.
  • Familiarity with HRIS, payroll, identity/access management, or adjacent enterprise domains.
  • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, RBAC, and data privacy by design.

Remote (Remote.com) Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Remote (Remote.com) and has not been reviewed or approved by Remote (Remote.com).

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Pay is positioned as above-market with a stated 65th-percentile benchmarking approach and structured bands/compa-ratios for adjustments. Compensation equity checks (including role and gender fairness) and inclusion of statutory local allowances are described as part of the approach.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time-off offerings are described as expansive, including unlimited PTO with a stated minimum, local public holidays, and periodic company-wide self-care days. Asynchronous hours and flexible scheduling are also highlighted as part of the time-off and flexibility experience.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Benefits include home office support and equipment, wellness programs, mental-health support, and allowances for learning and professional development. Additional perks like meetups/workations and recognition-style perks are described as part of the total package.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
1,004 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Talent is everywhere. Opportunity is not. Remote's mission is to create opportunity everywhere, empowering employers to find and hire the best talent, and enabling individuals to build financial and personal freedom. Remote is the all-in-one HR and payroll platform to find, hire, manage, and pay your entire team everywhere. Whether onboarding your first cross-border hire or scaling across continents, Remote delivers enterprise-grade compliance, intuitive design, and dedicated local expertise. With one platform for every contract, payslip, and regulation, Remote helps you grow without borders through our comprehensive set of core solutions including, HRIS, payroll, international employment, contractor management, and more.

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