[Hiring] Forward Deployed Engineer @Skillable

Role Description

• Own solutions end-to-end, from discovery and prototyping through implementation, deployment, documentation, adoption and ongoing maintenance.
• Establish patterns and standards for reusable automation, reducing one-off scripts and ensuring solutions are supportable, secure and maintainable.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production automations and integrations, addressing failures and improving reliability, observability and error handling over time.
• Evaluate new technologies and AI capabilities through practical prototyping, recommending when they should be adopted, standardized or avoided.
• Embed with RevTech and Professional Services teams to gather technical requirements directly from stakeholders and users, translate ambiguous or manual workflows into clear technical solutions and implementation plans, and prioritize high-leverage automation opportunities based on broad business impact, volume, time saved and overall risk.
• Investigate complex or recurring technical problems and design durable solutions that address root causes rather than symptoms.
• Build and maintain internal tools, admin utilities and platform automation that turn recurring or bulk technical work into repeatable, scalable workflows across cloud, business systems and Skillable platforms.
• Plan and execute bulk technical changes for major platform initiatives and new capabilities, collaborating with both Solutions Consulting and Product & Technology, emphasizing repeatability, validation and risk reduction.
• Partner, on request, with Solution Consulting and Professional Services on advanced lab automation and complex customer technical needs.
• Curate and maintain reusable life cycle action, activity and scoring script templates in the Skillable Studio Script Library.
• Evolve the shared AI tooling, skills, plugins and integrations used across platforms.
• Help drive practical AI adoption across Revenue Technology & Solutions by identifying use cases and building AI-enabled workflows and agents.
• Define, audit, and enforce AI usage guardrails & automation practices for RevTech teams.
• Translate recurring operational and customer pain into actionable requirements for Product and Infrastructure.
• Coordinate with Product, Professional Services, and groups such as the AI Council to share field learnings, tooling, and roadmap context.
• Operationalize solutions via documentation, training and clear ownership to drive adoption & maintainability.
• Measure and report tooling impact, including usage, adoption, and time and cost savings.
• Spot emerging scale constraints early and propose solutions before they become operational bottlenecks.
• Support and promote the company values through positive interactions with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Other strategic business initiatives or special cross-functional project involvement as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related field, or relevant professional experience.
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience in automation engineering, DevOps, platform or infrastructure engineering, solutions engineering or internal tooling development.
• Experience with Skillable’s platform and products a major plus, but not required.
• Strong scripting in PowerShell and Python; Bash and JavaScript or TypeScript a plus.
• Experience designing and owning production-grade automation or internal tooling from concept through ongoing support.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, logging, monitoring and troubleshooting of production automation.
• Demonstrated ability to prototype quickly while knowing when a solution needs to be hardened for broader or long-term use.
• Experience automating against REST APIs and Azure, AWS or GCP; infrastructure as code (Bicep, Terraform or similar) preferred.
• Virtualization and disk image experience (Hyper-V, ESXi or KVM; VHD/VHDX, VMDK and differencing disks) strongly preferred.
• Hands-on experience building with generative AI (LLM APIs, agents, skills or MCP integrations), with sound judgment on quality, security and data handling.
• Sound engineering practices (Git, testing, documentation, secure credential handling) and a record of turning non-engineers' workflows into tools they adopt.
• Familiarity with Skillable Studio, including life cycle actions and scoring scripts, strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, to various audiences/levels including leadership, internally and externally, and through various mediums.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage workload and meet project deadlines.
• A high-level of confidence, integrity and professional courtesy.
• Strong Microsoft suite experience, including teams or similar web conferencing and internal communication software experience preferred.
• Experience working in a fully remote team is preferred, but not required.
• Thorough understanding (or willingness to learn expeditiously) of business operations and processes.
• Proactively addresses challenges, seeking opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Adept at troubleshooting in fast-paced environments and implementing corrective actions swiftly.

Benefits

• Fully remote with a monthly stipend to pay for office services and supplies.
• Medical (2 plan options), dental (2 plan options), vision, health savings account with generous employer contributions, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, EAP, group paid life insurance, group paid STD and LTD and voluntary life/AD&D insurance, accident and critical illness options.
• 401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement, healthy lifestyle reimbursements.
• Unlimited PTO, Paid holidays, bereavement leave, parental leave, caregiver leave and paid FMLA leave.
• Privilege of logging off at 2:00 pm local time, every Friday for team members who are caught up on work and meeting deliverables.
• Full company closure during the 4th of July holiday week.
• Reimbursement for up to $750 annually to use towards lifestyle choices that impact their wellness such as gym memberships, fitness classes or healthy meal plans.
• Stipend of $200 a month for office expenses.
• Access to pet insurance; access for employees and dependents to Skillable learning opportunities through our product and more!

Company Description

Skillable is a distributed first team with employees working across the U.S., and we do not consider geography when determining compensation ranges.