Role Description
Global Resource Solutions, Inc. (GRS) is seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, detail orientated, and talented individual for the position of Forward Deployed Engineer. This is a Remote Position.
Job Description:
Summary: The Forward Deployed Engineer will build and deploy a focused document-analysis application around an existing commercial intelligence engine. Work directly with customer stakeholders, regulatory specialists and the core engineering team to turn agreed requirements into a reliable analyst workflow.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Translate approved comment-processing workflows into application requirements, data schemas and acceptance tests.
- Implement ingestion, normalization, search experience, categorization, source traceability, analyst review and export features.
- Connection interfaces to authorized data sources and government-provided interfaces; identify access dependencies early.
- Build a reviewer interface supporting corrections, multiple issue mappings and audit history.
- Evaluate retrieval, classification and summary quality on representative records with regulatory experts.
- Test duplicate handling, attachment coverage, reconciliation, high-volume processing and reproducible exports.
- Implement approved authentication, permissions, logging, monitoring, backups and deployment controls.
- Support accessibility validation, security reviews, release management, technical documentation and incident resolution.
- Coordinate changes to the custom application with the core platform team and maintain a clear inventory of pre-existing and newly developed components
Requirement:
* Four (4) or more years related experience * Bachelor’s Degree in a related area or equivalent experience (Four (4) years) Skills:
* Strong software engineering experience delivering production applications and integrating APIs and data pipelines. * Proficiency in an appropriate modern application stack, database design, automated validation and cloud operations is essential. * Practical experience with retrieval or language-model applications, evaluation and source-grounded outputs is highly desirable. Physical Requirements: This position requires employees to be willing and able to: sit, bend, reach, stoop, squat, stand, and walk.
Communication:Excellent customer service via phone and face to face conversation, excellent written and oral command of English.
GRS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. GRS will continue to abide by obligations under VEVRRA and Section 503 physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristics that are protected by law.
About Forward Deployed Engineering
Forward Deployed Engineers are embedded directly with customers to build custom solutions, integrate products into existing infrastructure, and bridge the gap between product engineering and customer success. The role combines deep technical skills with the ability to operate in client environments and translate business requirements into working software.
Originally pioneered by Palantir, the FDE model has spread across AI, enterprise SaaS, and cloud infrastructure companies. FDEs write production code, architect integrations, train customer teams, and feed product insights back to the core engineering organization. At companies like OpenAI, Salesforce, and Databricks, FDE teams are treated as elite engineering units that can ship custom solutions in days rather than quarters.
Typical FDE stack: Python, TypeScript, SQL, REST/GraphQL APIs, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and increasingly LLM APIs and AI orchestration frameworks. Strong communication and the ability to context-switch between technical and business conversations are as important as coding ability.
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