Forward Deployed Engineer III

ShipBob, Inc.

12h•$134,162 - $223,603•Remote

About The Position

ShipBob is a global logistics technology company powering e-commerce fulfillment for thousands of brands. Our People team manages the workforce infrastructure that keeps ShipBob running, and we’re ready to fundamentally change how that infrastructure works. We’re hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer III (AI) embedded directly within the People team. This is not a traditional engineering role. It is a role for someone who knows enterprise HR systems from the inside, has built AI-assisted automations that run in production, and has the process instincts and data governance discipline to transform how an HR function operates, responsibly. This role reports to the Senior Director, Total Rewards & HR Systems. You will spend your first 60 days listening, mapping, and diagnosing. Then you will build. You will own the full lifecycle of every automation, from workflow map to production deployment to handoff documentation, working closely with our Central Data team and Legal to ensure sensitive data is handled with the care it deserves. This role reports to the Senior Director, Total Rewards & HR Systems.

Requirements

5-8 years working with enterprise HR systems (ADP, Workday, SuccessFactors, or equivalent) at an integration or implementation level, not just as an end user.
Demonstrated experience building and deploying AI-assisted workflows in production. Not demos, not proofs of concept, but things that run.
Sound API integration skills: you have built RESTful integrations from scratch, handled auth and error states, and built things that do not break silently.
Real depth in access control design for sensitive data. Working knowledge of HIPAA requirements and hands-on experience implementing role-based access controls in systems handling PII.
Process thinking: you can take an undocumented, messy workflow and produce a clean system flow that exposes every failure mode before you write a line of code.
High agency. You do not need a fully scoped project list to operate. You find the work.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Greenhouse ATS at an API or integration level, preferred.
Background in comp planning tools or sales incentive software, preferred.
Familiarity with iPaaS platforms (Workato, Zapier, Boomi) in addition to direct API work, preferred.
Experience at a high-growth, operationally complex company (logistics, e-commerce, manufacturing), preferred.

Responsibilities

Employee lifecycle automation: new hires, role changes, terminations, transfers, and leave. Eliminate the manual coordination that currently runs on emails and spreadsheets by building automated task orchestration with SLAs, escalation paths, and audit-ready logs.
Comp planning infrastructure hardening: access controls, versioning, approval workflows, and AI-assisted benchmarking across our SecureSheets environment.
Build a unified People analytics layer connecting ADP Workforce Now, Greenhouse, and Lattice into a governed data model that gives People leaders real workforce intelligence.
Performance and goals connectivity: build the data infrastructure that links performance data in Lattice to workforce decisions.
Spend your first 60 days embedded across every People sub-function, listening, mapping, and building a prioritized automation backlog that you own and execute against.
Establish logging, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure for all automations. Publish reusable modules to the Automation Hub.
Document all production automations to handoff-ready standard. Ensure every automation touching sensitive data has Legal sign-off and complies with HIPAA and PII governance requirements.
Additional duties and responsibilities as necessary.