Forward Deployed <HR> Engineer

Onboarded

3d • Remote

About The Position

Onboarded is hiring engineers to embed with strategic customers and build their compliance workflows end to end. Each engineer works with two or three customer accounts at a time, learning how hiring operates across states, worker types, and systems, then implementing those processes on Onboarded. The work includes forms as code, policies, automations, and integrations with ATS, HRIS, payroll, and other systems. The engineer owns each build from discovery through go-live and is accountable for launch speed and correctness. Customer implementations are generalized into reusable packages and tooling, and insights from the field help shape the product roadmap.

This is a customer-facing, production engineering role for someone who enjoys solving complex customer problems and uses AI tools as a force multiplier. It is not a ticket-queue role or one focused on coding far from end users. The position offers a growth path into leading Forward Deployed Engineers, core platform engineering, or ownership of a product area.

Requirements

• At least 3 years writing production code in a modern stack such as TypeScript or Python, or a track record of shipping real systems as a founder.
• Ability to become productive quickly in an unfamiliar codebase.
• Experience integrating systems using APIs, webhooks, authentication, and data models, including maintaining synchronized records across systems.
• Ability and willingness to lead customer discovery and work directly with customer HR and IT teams.
• High precision and sound judgment when delivering compliance-related workflows.
• Regular use of AI tools to write code, generate configuration, analyze requirements, and prototype.
• Ability to clarify customer needs and translate them into a suitable implementation or explain why a request should not be pursued.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with staffing, ATS or HRIS software, payroll, or employment compliance, including I-9, E-Verify, background checks, or tax forms.

Responsibilities

• Embed with strategic customers and work with their HR, operations, legal, and IT teams to map hiring processes and identify where workflows break.
• Implement customer compliance requirements on Onboarded's primitives, including forms, policies, entities, automations, and integrations.
• Connect customer ATS, HRIS, payroll, and screening systems through REST APIs, webhooks, and MCP surfaces; own data models, authentication, and record synchronization.
• Take workflows from discovery through production go-live, monitor them, resolve issues, and explain how they work when needed for audits.
• Turn customer implementations into reusable packages and tooling, including AI agents that generate configuration.
• Identify platform gaps, write clear specifications, prioritize needs, and test shipped product changes.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Health benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• Retirement benefits
• Remote-first culture with optional in-person collaboration
• Growth paths into team leadership, core platform engineering, or product-area ownership

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed