--- title: 'Forward Deployed
Engineer at Onboarded' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/forward-deployed-hr-engineer-onboarded-united-states-kfgc1a6gqeeg' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-03' --- # Forward Deployed
Engineer at Onboarded - **Company:** Onboarded - **Location:** United States - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-11-02 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-03 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/onboarded/d34a0398-5ae8-4661-bd2a-0a6b6ea8cc17 ## Job description ## About the Role When a staffing firm or high-volume employer signs with Onboarded, the contract is the starting line. Their compliance work has to run, and run right: I-9 and E-Verify, background checks, state and federal forms, tax credits, union agreements, credentials. Every customer's version is different. We're looking for engineers to embed with our direct customers and build those workflows end to end. You'll be embedded in two or three strategic customer accounts at a time. You learn how their hiring actually works across states, worker types and systems, then build it on Onboarded: forms as code, policies, automations, and integrations to their ATS, HRIS and payroll. You own the build from first discovery through go-live, and you answer for how fast the customer goes live and whether the work is right. Sales opens the account. Customer Engineering supports it at steady state. You build in the middle. Onboarded is the API for the workflows that have to be right. We never built I-9 as a feature. We built primitives, and every customer build turns implementation into code we reuse. What you build for one customer becomes a package for the next, and what you learn in the field shapes the roadmap. We're casting a wide net. Maybe you've been a forward deployed engineer at an AI or data company, a solutions engineer who writes real code, an integration engineer, or a founder. What matters is that you ship production-quality code, you're energized by messy customer problems, and you use AI as a force multiplier. ## What You'll Do - Embed with strategic customers. Work alongside their HR, operations, legal and IT teams. Map how a worker goes from hired to ready to work across their systems, states and worker types, and find where it breaks. - Build compliance workflows as code. Implement each customer's requirements on Onboarded's primitives: forms, policies, entities, automations and integrations. Versioned, reviewed, and deployed across every entity they run. - Connect the customer's stack. Integrate Onboarded with their ATS, HRIS, payroll and screening vendors through our REST API, webhooks and MCP surfaces. Own the data model, the auth, and how records stay in sync. - Ship to production and own the outcome. Take each workflow from discovery to go-live. Monitor it, fix what breaks, and stand behind it when an auditor asks how it works. - Turn every build into something reusable. Every workflow you deliver should make the next one faster. Generalize what you build into packages and tooling the whole team uses, including AI agents that write configuration. - Bring the field back to product. Write clear specs for the gaps the core platform should close, prioritize hard, and be the first person to test what ships. ## What We're Looking For - A builder who ships. 3+ years writing production code in a modern stack (TypeScript, Python or similar), or a track record shipping real systems as a founder. You get productive in an unfamiliar codebase fast. - Real integration skills. APIs, webhooks, authentication, data models, and keeping records in sync across systems you didn't build. You've made other people's systems work together at scale. - Customer-facing by choice. You can run discovery with an HR director in the morning and debug a payroll sync with their IT team in the afternoon. You earn trust by delivering. - Precision that holds up. Compliance work cannot be wrong. You know the difference between fast and right, and you deliver both. - AI-first operator. You use AI tools to write code, generate configuration, analyze requirements and prototype. This is non-negotiable. - Product judgment. You can take "we need it to do X" from a customer, find what they actually need, and come back with a crisp build or a clear no. Experience in staffing, ATS or HRIS software, payroll, or employment compliance (I-9, E-Verify, background checks, tax forms) is a strong signal but not required. Learning velocity and an AI-first approach to closing the gap count just as much. This role is not a fit for someone who wants a ticket queue, or who wants to write code far from the people who use it. It is for engineers who want to own the outcome and see their work run in the real world. ## Why This Role - Your code puts people to work. Every workflow you ship decides whether a real person starts their job on time and compliantly. The stakes are real and so is the impact. - You'll build next to the people who built the engine. Our CTO and founders own customer accounts too. You'll have a direct line to them, Product and Engineering, and your field work shapes what the platform becomes. - There is a clear growth path. As we add strategic accounts, this role can grow into leading a team of Forward Deployed Engineers, moving into core platform engineering, or owning a product area. ## What We Offer - Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing startup - Health, dental, vision, and retirement benefits - Remote-first culture with optional in-person collaboration - A chance to build the workflows that have to be right, for some of the largest employers and staffing firms in the country How to Apply Send a short introduction + your resume, LinkedIn or GitHub to careers@onboarded.com. Include how you use AI tools in your day-to-day work, and one story about something you built inside a customer's environment: what was messy, what you built, and what it changed. Bonus points if you tell us how you'd decide whether a customer request should be a one-off configuration or a reusable package. ## About Onboarded ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Onboarded provides an AI-powered onboarding and compliance orchestration engine for companies that hire at volume, automating every step from offer acceptance to worker activation. - **Entity Type**: Private (Startup) – Seed stage (USD 1M raised) - **Headquarters**: Incline Village, Nevada, United States (fully distributed company) - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Mike Johnson (CEO) and Matt Wu (COO) ## Core Business - **Industry**: HR Technology / Workforce Management / Compliance Software - **Target Customers**: B2B – staffing firms, high-volume employers, gig platforms, and any organization that needs to onboard workers across multiple clients, locations, or worker types - **Mission**: "Build the AI-First Future of HR" – Get workers from accepted to ready to work reliably, compliantly, and without manual chaos. ## Products & Services - **[Onboarded Platform]** – An AI orchestration engine that sits between an ATS and HRIS/payroll, automatically evaluating each new placement’s compliance requirements (role, location, client context) and executing workflows: forms, verifications, background checks, I‑9/E‑Verify, and system handoffs. Workers complete steps via a mobile‑first experience. Ops teams handle only exceptions. Available as a standalone SaaS product or embedded via API. - **Embeddable API** – Allows partners (e.g., staffing platforms, marketplaces) to integrate onboarding and compliance logic directly into their own products. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Funding**: USD 1M total funding (Seed round closed July 27, 2025) - **Key Metric**: Headcount of 24 employees (+81.2% YoY growth) - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Backed by SemperVirens, Resolute Ventures, Jefferies, CameronVC, Forum Ventures, Cambrian Ventures, Mischief, and Battle Born Ventures. - **Growth Signals**: 99%+ self‑service onboarding completion, 85%+ reduction in manual data entry; growing client base (e.g., Reflex, Indeed Flex); team expanded from 11 to 24 in one year; now hiring a Senior Solutions Engineer. ## Competitive Advantages - **System of Action, not System of Record** – Unlike ATS/HRIS tools that only store data, Onboarded actively *executes* the compliance steps between systems, eliminating manual coordination. - **AI‑First Orchestration** – AI agents automatically route requirements based on role, location, and client context, without human configuration. - **High‑Volume, Multi‑Client Compliance** – Purpose‑built for the complexity of staffing firms with multiple clients, locations, and worker types (W2, contractor, light industrial, professional). - **50+ Native Integrations** – Pre‑built connectors to common ATS, HRIS, background check, and payroll platforms, plus an API‑first design for custom connections. ## Strategic Focus - Deepen AI capabilities to further automate compliance rule evaluation and exception handling. - Expand embedded partnerships to power onboarding experiences inside third‑party hiring platforms. - Scale the team to meet demand from high‑volume employers and staffing firms. ## Why Work Here - **Remote‑First Culture**: Fully distributed team with headquarters in Incline Village, Nevada, and team members across the US and other countries (Pakistan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia). Regular in‑person gatherings to strengthen collaboration. - **Lean, Mission‑Driven Team**: Small team of engineers, product thinkers, compliance experts, and GTM operators working on a problem with real operational impact. Emphasis on ownership and impact. - **Growth Trajectory**: 81% YoY headcount growth, early‑stage startup with strong investor backing – opportunity to shape product and culture. - **Tech Stack & Tools**: Modern AI‑first stack; uses AI in hiring process (e.g., analyzing applications) to maintain efficiency. - **Notable Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but remote flexibility, distributed work, and a “system of action” engineering challenge are key draws. ## Sources 1. [onboarded.com/careers](https://www.onboarded.com/careers) 2. [onboarded.com](https://www.onboarded.com/) 3. [onboarded.com/about-us](https://www.onboarded.com/about-us) 4. [linkedin.com/company/onboarded-inc](https://linkedin.com/company/onboarded-inc) 5. 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