--- title: 'Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Remote Build) at Remote - Referral Board' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-forward-deployed-engineer-remote-build-remote-referral-board-global-vrn0vqt2bs17' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-06' --- # Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Remote Build) at Remote - Referral Board - **Company:** Remote - Referral Board - **Location:** Global - **Compensation:** $53k–$216k - **Posted:** 2026-06-29 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/remotereferralboardinternaluseonly/jobs/7788661003 ## Job description ## 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 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 Application process - Recruiter screen - Hiring Manager interview - Technical challenge - Team interview - Bar Raiser interview - Executive interview - Offer + [Prior employment verification check](https://www.notion.so/Veremark-Remote-96e108c037b8423cbd4c3f07a1f9b38b) Remote's [Total Rewards philosophy](https://www.notion.so/remotecom/people-Total-Rewards-1945bce8d3924ece9421ba8630f57b0c) 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. 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. The annual salary range for this full-time position is $53,300—$215,750 USD ## Benefits Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at [remote.com/r/benefits](http://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](https://remote.com/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](https://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 - Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format. - We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote. - 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. 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. Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis. ## About Remote - Referral Board ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Remote provides an all-in-one global HR platform that enables companies to hire, manage, and pay employees anywhere in the world, compliantly. - **Entity Type**: Private (late-stage growth, Series C) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (fully remote company) - **Founded**: 2019 - **Founders**: Job van der Voort (CEO/Co-founder) and Marcelo Lebre (President/Co-founder) ## Core Business - Primary industry: Global HR / Employer of Record (EOR) / Payroll and Benefits - Target customers: B2B – companies of all sizes (startups to enterprises) looking to hire internationally - Mission/purpose: *“Talent is everywhere, opportunity should be too – eliminate barriers to international hiring so great companies can work with great people, no matter where those people are.”* ## Products & Services - **[Global HR Platform / EOR]**: End-to-end service for employing, onboarding, paying, and managing international teams. Handles compliance, payroll, benefits, and local entity setup. - **[Remote Payroll]**: Multi-country payroll management integrated with the platform. - **[Remote Benefits]**: Country-specific benefits administration (health insurance, pension, etc.). - **[Remote Mobility]**: Support for employee relocation and immigration. - **[Remote Financial Services]**: Related financial products (likely payment and cross-border finance). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (last reported Series C at over $3 billion in 2022 – unconfirmed in search results) - **Key Metric**: Not publicly disclosed (revenue and total funding not provided in search results) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not specified in searched sources (known investors include Index Ventures, Accel, Sequoia, etc. – not cited here) - **Growth Signals**: Over 90 nationalities represented, 6 continents covered, 50+ languages spoken. The referral board lists 88 open positions across departments including Engineering, Sales, Customer Experience, and Operations, indicating active scaling. ## Competitive Advantages - **True global remote-first culture**: Fully asynchronous, no physical office – gives a structural cost and talent advantage. - **Compliance as a moat**: Deep expertise in local employment laws across dozens of countries, making switching providers painful for customers. - **All-in-one platform**: Combines EOR, payroll, benefits, mobility, and financial services, reducing the need for multiple vendors. ## Strategic Focus - Expand global entity coverage and maintain compliance as regulations change. - Continue to hire top talent across all departments to accelerate product development and customer success. - Scale the platform to serve both SMBs and large enterprises. ## Why Work Here - **Work environment**: 100% remote-first and fully asynchronous – employees work from anywhere, choose their own hours, and plan work around life. - **Culture**: High-performance culture built on values of Care, Innovation, Intensity, Transparency, and Excellence. - **Perks & benefits**: Company stock options, flexible paid time off, paid parental leave, home office setup budget, co-working allowance, mental health support, learning budget, branded swag, and country-specific benefits. - **Team**: “Ambitious, motivated, high-performing contributors” from over 90 nationalities; emphasis on ownership and collaboration across time zones. ## Sources 1. [remote.com/careers](https://remote.com/careers) 2. [remote.com/about](https://remote.com/about) 3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/remotereferralboardinternaluseonly](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/remotereferralboardinternaluseonly) 4. 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