Forward Deployed Engineer

UpperPlain; Time; On-site; NOK 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

UpperPlain seeks an AI-first engineer to translate client concepts into production web systems. You will observe real workflows, document hands-offs, and design automated integrations across CRMs, ERPs, and databases.

You will ship a first working slice within weeks—a board, portal, intake flow, or automated agent—and continuously monitor and improve the system with human oversight.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building production web systems and APIs.
• Experience working with data models and authentication in real products.
• Ability to design interfaces that users actually click.
• Familiarity with CRM/ERP systems and databases in lived environments.
• Comfort using AI tools to assist writing, reviewing, and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Sit with operators, observe workflows, and document systems, handoffs, and exceptions.
• Preserve CRMs, ERPs, accounting tools, and databases; connect them before replacing.
• Deliver a first working slice within weeks (board, portal, intake flow, report, or agent).
• Build and wire automations across systems: intake, updates, flags, and sync.
• Deploy, monitor production, fix issues, and plan next items.
• Leave the client with a usable product rather than a one-off demo.

Skills

Production web systems

APIs

Data models

Auth

Interfaces

AI tools

Tools

CRM

ERP

Spreadsheets

Job description

What you will do

• Sit with operators, watch the work, and write down the systems, handoffs, and exceptions that actually run the week.
• Keep useful CRMs, ERPs, accounting tools, and databases in place. Connect them before you replace them.
• Ship a first working slice in weeks: a board, a portal, an intake flow, a report, or an agent that prepares work for a person to review.
• Build and wire automations: document intake, record updates, exception flags, follow-up drafts, and cross-system sync.
• Deploy, watch production, fix what breaks, and take the next item on the request list.
• Leave the client with something they use every day, not a demo that dies after the workshop.

What you bring

• Hands-on experience building production web systems: APIs, data models, auth, and interfaces people actually click.
• Time spent inside messy real systems: spreadsheets, inboxes, CRMs, ERPs, or industry software, not only greenfield apps.
• Comfort reading a workflow, naming the bottleneck, and choosing keep, connect, extend, or replace.
• The habit of using AI tools to write, review, debug, and document, then checking the result yourself.
• Clear writing. You can explain a system to a founder without a diagram full of jargon.

AI-first, in practice

• You already use models, agents, and coding assistants as part of how you ship, not as a side experiment.
• You can design a reviewable AI step in a business process: intake, summary, classification, draft, or alert, with a person still in control.
• You know the difference between a chatbot bolted onto a page and an agent that updates the system of record.