Forward Deployed Engineer
Newcode.ai2 days ago
Oslo, Norway +2 moreMid Level
Responsibilities
- Work directly with clients to map legal processes, including inputs, decisions, exceptions, and approvals.
- Build and configure Aurora workflows for document intake, clause extraction, contract review, drafting, and multi-step agents.
- Configure prompts, model choices, document search, integrations, access controls, and confidentiality boundaries.
- Write Python scripts for custom components, data transformations, and API calls, and identify reusable components.
- Test workflows against real examples and agreed evaluations, diagnose failures, and resolve issues before client release.
- Run client workshops and pilots, support AI Academy sessions, and remain responsible for workflows after launch.
- Apply delivery standards covering design reviews, code reviews, testing, traceability, monitoring, and appropriate human review.
- Estimate work and raise scope changes, risks, and dependencies early.
- Share recurring client patterns, feature needs, and bugs with Product and Engineering.
- Track delivery time, effort, workflow adoption, and component reuse.
Requirements
- At least three years of experience in a technical, client-facing role such as solutions engineering, implementation consulting, technical consulting, automation, or development.
- Hands-on experience configuring or building with workflow automation, integrations, a low-code platform, or software development.
- Ability to read and write simple Python scripts, work with JSON and REST APIs, and debug implementations.
- Daily familiarity with LLMs and a clear perspective on prompting, model reliability, and model limitations.
- Ability to structure ambiguous processes into clear steps, inputs, decisions, and failure points.
- Strong communication skills with both law-firm partners and engineers.
- Ability to learn legal workflows quickly; a law degree is not required.
- Comfort working in a changing startup environment and collaborating in a small team.
- Fluent English.
- Preferred experience with n8n, Make, Zapier, Power Automate, or similar workflow tools.
- Preferred experience building LLM applications, retrieval-augmented generation, or agents.
- Preferred background in law, consulting, audit, finance, engineering, or another professional-services field.
- Preferred experience with iManage, SharePoint, law-firm permissions, ethical walls, or Microsoft Azure.
- Demonstrated capability is valued over a specific degree or job title.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, equity, and bonus are offered; specific compensation figures are not stated.
- US benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), and paid time off.
- Norway and Poland benefits include statutory benefits plus local pension, paid leave, and parental leave offerings.
- Full-time hybrid work from Oslo, Norway; Wroclaw, Poland; or Chicago, United States, with three days per week in the office.
- Approximately 25% client travel is expected for discovery workshops, pilots, and go-live support.