Forward Deployed Engineer
PartsBase Inc.3 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Responsibilities
- Run technical discovery with customers and produce technical scopes, risk assessments, and build and operating cost estimates.
- Partner with Sales on scoping and own solution design for customer engagements.
- Build end-to-end integrations involving agents, MCP servers, ERP and third-party connectors, file and batch ingestion, webhooks, and data mapping.
- Certify implementations against customer source-of-truth data using automated regression, parity checks, and customer-acceptable evidence.
- Build verification tooling, reconciliation systems, agent-driven test generation, evaluation and reporting workflows.
- Define testing approaches for agentic components, including prompt injection, tool and MCP permissions, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Design agentic guardrails including scoped credentials, approval gates, output validation, audit logging, and rollback.
- Serve as the primary technical interface through customer security review and change control.
- Hand off completed engagements with documentation, runbooks, and monitoring.
- Productize recurring engagement patterns into APIs, reference implementations, connectors, and an official PartsBase MCP server.
- Own developer experience for the integration surface, including agent- and human-oriented documentation, examples, and self-service workflows.
- Contribute to the full-stack core platform and maintain internal agentic tooling between engagements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years building and shipping production software across backend, frontend, and integration work, including at least five years operating systems personally built.
- Direct experience in billable consulting, professional services, or solutions engineering, including scoping, estimating, and customer relationship ownership.
- Demonstrated production use of Claude Code, CLAUDE.md, subagents, skills, hooks, MCP servers, and the Claude API.
- Strong command of context engineering, tool use, model selection, and failure modes of nondeterministic systems.
- Experience detecting incorrect AI output and building automated safeguards to prevent customer impact.
- Deep experience verifying data integrations through reconciliation, parity analysis, sampling or full comparison, and handling legitimate record differences.
- Experience with agent-driven testing and evaluation, eval design and scoring, and regression detection across prompt and model changes.
- Experience with large-scale test automation using Playwright, Cypress, or equivalent, including eliminating test flakiness.
- Experience owning customer-facing defects and implementing systemic improvements.
- Experience deciding when recurring customer solutions should be productized.
- Experience evolving partner-facing APIs, including versioning and deprecation consequences.
- Proficiency with C#, .NET, .NET Framework 4.6-era code, Python, TypeScript, and React with Next.js or React Native.
- Experience deploying, operating, and debugging production workloads on AWS.
- Experience with REST integrations and data integration across spreadsheets, flat files, batch workflows, webhooks, event-driven systems, and direct APIs.
- Experience with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, CI/CD test automation, production observability, and automation platforms such as n8n.
- Ability to lead customer discovery sessions and communicate credibly with customers.
- Ability to handle being overruled or changing organizational direction professionally.
- Fluent English language skills.
- Preferred: aviation, aerospace, or defense experience, including ITAR/EAR awareness; ERP integration experience with SAP, Oracle, Dynamics, or aerospace-specific systems; and security testing experience with OWASP Top 10 and OWASP Top 10 for LLMs.
Benefits
- Fully remote work environment.
- Opportunity to work with peers and customers worldwide on aviation technology projects.
- Team-focused and inclusive company culture.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBAWSC#CypressElasticsearchMicrosoft SQL Server.NETNext.jsPostgreSQLPythonReactReact NativeTypeScript
Categories
Forward Deployed
About PartsBase Inc.
PartsBase Inc. operates an online marketplace and software suite for sourcing, buying, and selling aircraft and aerospace parts, serving airlines, MROs, OEMs, and distributors. The privately held company, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Deerfield Beach, Florida, reports a global community of 6,500+ companies across 140+ countries. Notable customers include Delta, Northrop Grumman, Heico, Chevron, and Air France Industries.