Forward Deployed Engineer

Valdera•San Francisco, CA

76d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Valdera, we help manufacturers bring their ideas to life by transforming how they manage materials. Our platform simplifies the process of finding the best materials and suppliers, enabling them to build high-quality products at scale and deliver to millions worldwide. We are a rapidly growing team with a proven history of collaborating with Fortune 500 industrial manufacturers, beauty brands, and chemical companies. We seek talented, driven individuals who excel in high-performance settings and are eager for rapid career advancement. Our culture fosters top talent by offering significant challenges, opportunities to work with industry leaders, and the chance to see the tangible impact of their contributions. If you are looking for a dynamic environment where your ideas can drive change, Valdera is the ideal place for you. Join us and help shape the future of manufacturing.

Requirements

Engineering fundamentals: Solid engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production software. We care more about fundamentals than exact-stack trivia.
Comfortable with ambiguity: Customer environments will all look different, and you need to be able to walk in understanding the fundamentals of what's needed, even if the way to get there may be different by customer.
Intellectually curious & customer first: You're genuinely curious about the customer's problem and excited to dig into the weeds to solve something new.
Strong communicator: You can communicate written and verbally with a customer's procurement team, their tech team, and our engineering team all in ways that make sense to them.

Nice To Haves

Prior forward deployed, solutions, sales, or implementation engineering experience at an enterprise software company.
Familiarity with procurement, finance, or ERP ecosystems, especially SAP (Oracle, NetSuite, Coupa, Ariba a plus).
Familiarity with chemical or raw materials procurement, HS codes, or CAS numbers.

Responsibilities

Own the technical side of customer relationships, from discovery and implementation through integration, workflow configuration, and go-live.
Run the customer discovery. Find where each customer's data lives, understand its shape and rules, and figure out what it takes to connect it to Valdera.
Build integrations with customer ERP, procurement, and finance systems like SAP, Oracle, Coupa, and Ariba.
Run technical calls end to end, from discovery and architecture through live debugging and executive readouts.
Handle the realities of enterprise data, where formats are messy, schemas mismatch, and things need validation, retries, and graceful degradation.
Prototype fast, then harden what sticks into scalable, production-worthy solutions.
Adapt to global time zones to support our customer's needs globally.