Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

A Forward Deployed Engineer will scope, build, and certify AI-driven integrations for corporate customers. This senior, client-facing role involves running engagements independently from discovery through sign-off using Claude Code.

What you will do

• Run technical discovery with customers to create technical scope, risk assessment, and estimates.
• Partner with Sales on scoping and own solution design.
• Build integrations end to end with Claude Code including agents, MCP servers, and connectors.
• Certify work with parity against customer source of truth and automated regression.
• Build reusable verification tooling including parity harnesses and reporting.
• Define testing for agentic components including prompt injection paths and permission scoping.
• Design guardrails for agentic components in customer environments.
• Act as the primary technical interface for engagements and manage security reviews.
• Hand off engagements with documentation, runbooks, and monitoring.
• Convert recurring patterns into product features and contribute to the core platform.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years building and shipping production software across backend, frontend, and integration work.
• At least 5 years operating systems you built yourself and being on call for them.
• Direct experience in a billable consulting, professional services, or solutions engineering capacity.
• Demonstrated production use of Claude Code, including CLAUDE.md, subagents, skills, hooks, MCP servers, and the Claude API.
• Command of context engineering, tool use, model selection, and the failure modes of non-deterministic systems.
• Proven ability to catch AI output that is confidently wrong.
• Deep experience verifying data integrations.
• Agent-driven testing and evaluation of non-deterministic behavior.
• Test automation at scale (Playwright, Cypress, or equivalent).
• Experience evolving a partner-facing API.
• C# and .NET including .NET Framework 4.6-era code, plus Python, TypeScript, and React with Next.js or React Native.

Nice to have

• aviation, aerospace, or defense exposure including ITAR/EAR awareness
• ERP integration (SAP, Oracle, Dynamics, or aerospace-specific systems)
• security testing practice, including OWASP Top 10 and the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs

Benefits

• Fully remote environment
• TEAM-focused organization
• Inclusive culture

About the company

PartsBase Inc. is the world's largest online Aviation Marketplace and Community. Their global community includes over 6,500 companies in over 140+ countries and territories.