Forward Deployed Engineer
Campfire InteractiveAbout the role
Role Overview
We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Professional Services team, embedding directly with Campfire's enterprise and mid-market customers to build, configure, and ship the technical solutions that get them live and successful on our platform. This is a hands-on, customer-facing engineering role — you will spend as much time in a customer's data and systems as you do writing code, translating complex business requirements into working integrations and configurations under real deadlines.
This is not a back-office engineering role. You will be the technical face of Campfire in the room with customer engineering and IT teams, building solutions that hold up in production.
The ideal candidate is comfortable with:
Writing production-quality code directly in customer environments, often under tight timelines
Complex data integrations (ERP, CRM, data warehouses)
Ambiguous, evolving requirements that shift as you learn a customer's environment
Being the technical face of Campfire to customer engineering and IT teams
Balancing hands-on building with clear technical communication to non-technical stakeholders
Responsibilities:
Customer Implementation & Integration
Build custom integrations, scripts, and configurations to connect Campfire with customer ERP, CRM, and other systems
Lead technical discovery with customer engineering and IT teams to scope integration requirements
Migrate and validate customer data into Campfire, ensuring accuracy and completeness
Debug and resolve technical issues that arise during implementation, in real time
Solution Design & Delivery
Translate ambiguous or evolving customer requirements into scoped, deliverable technical solutions
Partner with Technical Account Managers and Professional Services leads to define implementation plans and timelines
Build reusable tools, scripts, and accelerators that speed up future implementations
Make pragmatic build-vs-configure tradeoffs to hit customer go-live dates
Technical Customer Engagement
Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customers during implementation
Explain technical tradeoffs and solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Build trust with customer engineering and IT teams through responsiveness and technical credibility
Represent the customer's technical environment and constraints back to Campfire's Product and Engineering teams
Internal Collaboration & Product Feedback
Act as a bridge between the field and Campfire's core Engineering and Product teams
Surface recurring integration patterns, product gaps, and technical debt to inform the roadmap
Contribute to internal documentation, playbooks, and reusable implementation frameworks
Support Sales and Solution Consulting with technical scoping during the pre-sale process, as needed
What Success Looks Like
Customers go live on time, with integrations that work reliably in production
Customer engineering and IT teams view you as a trusted, credible technical partner
Implementation patterns and tools you build get reused across future customer engagements
Product and Engineering gain clear, actionable feedback from real customer environments
Professional Services engagements are technically sound and set customers up for long-term success
Nice-to-Have / Preferred Experience
Experience in a Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Implementation Engineer role
Experience with ERP or CRM systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Salesforce)
Experience working directly with enterprise customers under live deadlines
Background in manufacturing, automotive, or supply chain software
Comfort working independently, on-site or remote, embedded with customer teams
Technical Skills
Strong proficiency in programming language(s) — e.g., Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL
Experience with API-based integrations and data pipelines
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP)
Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills in unfamiliar codebases and environments
Educational Experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent practical experience considered
Responsibilities
- Build custom integrations, scripts, and configurations to connect Campfire with customer ERP, CRM, and other systems
- Lead technical discovery with customer engineering and IT teams to scope integration requirements
- Migrate and validate customer data into Campfire, ensuring accuracy and completeness
- Debug and resolve technical issues that arise during implementation, in real time
- Translate ambiguous or evolving customer requirements into scoped, deliverable technical solutions
- Partner with Technical Account Managers and Professional Services leads to define implementation plans and timelines
- Build reusable tools, scripts, and accelerators that speed up future implementations
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customers during implementation
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent practical experience considered
- Strong proficiency in programming language(s) — e.g., Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL
- Experience with API-based integrations and data pipelines
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills in unfamiliar codebases and environments
Skills mentioned
About Campfire Interactive
In today’s supplier landscape, profitability is under constant pressure: raw material volatility, OEM price-downs, EV program uncertainty, and global trade shifts. Spreadsheets and siloed systems can’t keep pace. Campfire equips automotive suppliers with real-time visibility and AI-powered guardrails to make every forecast, every quote, and every program decision margin-aware. By embedding profitability intelligence into daily workflows, suppliers can protect margins, grow revenue, and improve win rates—without adding headcount or complexity. Campfire delivers a Profit Optimization Platform purpose-built for Tier 1 and Tier 2 automotive suppliers. It unifies forecasting, quoting, and program execution into a single intelligence layer that continuously analyzes cost drivers, customer program changes, and market dynamics—helping suppliers turn volatility into margin gains.
H-1B sponsorship history
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