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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at Jinba.io'
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last_seen: '2026-09-07'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer at Jinba.io

- **Company:** Jinba.io
- **Location:** Tokyo, Japan
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2025-12-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/carnot-ai/ccb377b8-95b9-489a-b144-8d143596b4ac

## Job description

## ABOUT THE ROLE

Technical engineer who works directly with enterprise customers to deploy and customize Jinba's workflow automation platform. You'll be the bridge between our product team and major enterprise clients, turning their business needs into working solutions.

## RESPONSIBILITIES

- Deploy and configure Jinba for enterprise customers, ensuring successful adoption
- Work with customers to understand their existing tech stack, workflows, and requirements
- Build integrations connecting Jinba to customer systems (internal databases, legacy applications, enterprise software)
- Translate customer feedback into product requirements for the engineering team
- Debug and resolve production issues in customer deployments
- Develop best practices, documentation, and reusable integration patterns from field experience
- Own customer technical relationships from pilot through expansion

## REQUIREMENTS

## EXPERIENCE

- 3+ years in customer-facing technical roles (solutions engineering, implementation, consulting, or similar)
- TypeScript proficiency; comfortable reading and modifying both frontend and backend code

## ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION

- Deep understanding of enterprise tech stacks (ERP systems, databases, identity providers, internal APIs)
- Experience integrating with legacy systems and navigating complex IT environments
- Familiarity with enterprise security and compliance requirements (SOC 2, on-prem deployments, VPNs, SSO)

## CUSTOMER SKILLS

- Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to work with IT teams, business users, and executives across different functions
- Experience in regulated industries (finance, insurance, manufacturing a plus)

## TECHNICAL UNDERSTANDING

- Familiarity with AI/LLM products and how they behave in production
- Understanding of integration patterns (APIs, webhooks, data pipelines, ETL)

## STRONG SIGNALS

- Engineering or technical roles at major consulting firms (McKinsey, BCG, Bain)
- Forward Deployment Engineer or similar customer-facing technical roles at Palantir, Accenture, or Deloitte
- Implementation, solutions, or technical consulting experience at enterprise software companies (Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday)
- Prior experience deploying AI/automation products to large organizations

## MINDSET

- Customer obsessed: you find satisfaction in solving real problems for real users
- Willing to travel: 10-20% to customer sites
- Entrepreneurial: you'll shape how we do deployments as the first dedicated FDE

## ABOUT JINBA

We help large enterprises build automated workflows using plain English. Unlike traditional no-code tools that bolt a chat agent onto their interface, Jinba is built as a native vibe coding platform from the ground up.

YC W26. International team across SF and Tokyo. Growing fast with major enterprise contracts.

## About Jinba.io

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Jinba provides an enterprise AI workflow builder that lets business teams create and deploy production-ready workflows using natural language, with SOC 2 compliance and on-premise deployment options.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup, Y Combinator Winter 2026 batch)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, USA (with an office in Tokyo, Japan)
- **Founded**: 2024 (estimated based on YC batch timing)
- **Founders**: Shoya Matsumori (Co-founder and CEO, Ph.D. in machine learning) and Takuya Norisugi (Co-founder and COO, former McKinsey manager)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI Workflow Automation / No-code Development
- **Target customers**: B2B, specifically large enterprises in regulated industries (banking, insurance, financial services) and Fortune Global 500 companies
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Enable enterprises to build AI workflows just by chatting, eliminating the IT backlog and allowing business teams to deploy workflows to production with full compliance controls.

## Products & Services
- **Jinba Flow**: A vibe-coding platform where builders create and deploy workflows using natural language. Workflows can be reviewed and edited visually with flowcharts, integrated with 100+ external services, and published as APIs or batch processes.
- **Jinba App**: The execution environment where users run and interact with deployed workflows. Supports chat-based execution, auto-generated input forms, and MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration for AI agent access.
- **Jinba Toolbox (Beta)**: A centralized tool management and execution platform for AI agents, offering sandbox execution in containers, semver versioning, REST API/SDK/MCP support, and a centralized tool registry.
- **Jinba API**: Enables technical teams to build and deploy custom APIs in minutes without writing code, with 100+ integrations, SSO, RBAC, and audit logs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — Y Combinator Winter 2026 batch (standard YC deal: ~$125K-$500K); serves 40,000 enterprise users at major financial institutions
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Winter 2026 batch); SOC 2 compliant; serves Fortune Global 500 companies in banking, insurance, and other highly regulated industries
- **Growth Signals**: 40,000 enterprise users; YC-backed with active hiring across engineering, sales, and design roles; expanding from San Francisco to Tokyo office; targeting highly regulated industries with compliance-first approach

## Competitive Advantages
- **Natural language workflow creation**: Unlike traditional no-code tools with drag-and-drop interfaces, Jinba lets users describe workflows in plain language, significantly reducing build time (promise of "Prompt to API in 5 minutes")
- **Enterprise-grade security from day one**: SOC 2 compliant with end-to-end encryption, SSO, RBAC, audit logging, on-premise or private cloud hosting, and private model hosting — designed specifically for regulated industries
- **Dual product ecosystem**: Jinba Flow for builders and Jinba App for consumers, with MCP integration allowing AI agents to access workflows
- **Targeting regulated industries**: Built specifically for banks, insurers, and compliance-heavy enterprises that competitors like Zapier, Make, and n8n cannot adequately serve due to security gaps

## Strategic Focus
- **Deep enterprise penetration**: Focused on Fortune Global 500 companies in banking, insurance, and regulated sectors
- **Security and compliance leadership**: Emphasizing on-premise deployment, private model hosting, and SOC 2 compliance as core differentiators
- **AI-native workflow automation**: Positioning as "Lovable meets n8n, but built for the enterprise" — combining vibe-coding with production-ready deployment
- **Global expansion**: Hiring across San Francisco and Tokyo offices, suggesting dual-market strategy (US and Japan)

## Why Work Here
- **YC-backed startup**: Winter 2026 batch with strong founder backgrounds (Ph.D. in ML, McKinsey) and rapid traction (40,000 users)
- **High-impact roles**: Open positions include Founding Engineer, Founding Sales Lead, Chief of Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer, and Founding Design Engineer — offering early-stage ownership and equity
- **Hybrid/remote flexibility**: Roles listed as "On-site" (San Francisco), "Hybrid" (San Francisco and Tokyo), and "Contract Hybrid" — suggesting flexibility depending on role
- **Competitive compensation**: Salary ranges listed for some roles (e.g., $150K-$250K for Founding Engineer roles)
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on "making something people want" and "building with AI" — strong technical culture with modern stack
- **Dual-location optionality**: Offices in San Francisco and Tokyo allow for international work opportunities

## Sources
1. [jinba.io](https://jinba.io/)
2. [jinba.io/careers](https://jinba.io/careers)
3. [ycombinator.com/companies/jinba](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/jinba)
4. [carnot.mintlify.app](https://carnot.mintlify.app/en/introduction)
5. [jinba.io/api](https://jinba.io/api)

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