AI Process Forward Deployed Engineer

Camunda; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 131,100 - 211,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote & Flexible

Health & Wellbeing

Professional Growth

Retirement and pension plans

Up to $1,000 professional growth budget

Job summary

Camunda is looking for Forward Deployed Engineers to deploy their innovative ProcessOS product. This role involves owning the deployment journey for enterprise customers and improving workflows through collaboration and technical expertise.

Successful candidates will have experience in large organizations and will be responsible for measuring system performance while driving customer adoption. This remote position offers competitive compensation and numerous benefits.

Qualifications

• Shipped projects within large organizations and ensured operational integrity.
• Ability to debug integration failures and build custom solutions.
• Effective communication with cross-functional teams.
• Used AI to solve real problems in production.
• Adapted to ambiguous situations while documenting learning.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end deployment journey from first process file to production.
• Collaborate with global teams to improve system performance.
• Document best practices for faster future deployments.
• Document best practices for faster future deployments.

Skills

Enterprise production experience

Technical depth

Stakeholder communication

Practical AI experience

Comfort with ambiguity

Job description

Camunda is the enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinate AI agents, people, and systems across complex end-to-end business processes. With built-in governance, auditability, and human oversight, Camunda gives enterprises the control they need to move AI from pilots to production — safely and at scale. Trusted by over 700 organizations worldwide, including 9 of the top 10 US banks, Camunda helps enterprises boost operational efficiency, accelerate time-to-value, and deliver better customer experiences.

Fully remote and global, we are transforming into an AI-first organization, built on our own platform. We use Agentic AI to automate, orchestrate intelligent processes, and elevate human contribution across every team.

Named GP Bullhound’s Top 100 Next Unicorn list, 2025 Great Place to Work certified, Visionary in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies, and ranked 3rd in Flexa's 2026 Most Flexible Companies.

We’re growing fast and looking for top talent to join our team. If you want meaningful work, visible impact, and something genuinely rare to put on your CV, keep reading.

About the Role

ProcessOS is a new kind of Camunda product: business processes described in natural language, generated as executable BPMN workflows, and improved autonomously from production data. We’re hiring the first cohort of Forward Deployed Engineers to bring it into production at enterprise customers. You’ll own the deployment journey from first process file to a working, improving system, and hand off a functioning capability to the customer’s team. The code you write and the patterns you discover feed directly back into how ProcessOS is built. This is a rare opportunity to shape a product, a function, and a field practice from day one.

You’ll work end-to-end across Java services and React interfaces, collaborating closely with a talented global team to measure, improve, and scale performance and fault tolerance in real-world distributed systems.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Deploy and prove: own the end-to-end journey from first process file to a running, measurably improving production workflow.
• At 90 days: at least one workflow running, the improvement loop active, and measurable fitness gains the customer can see.
• At 12 months: 3–5 customers with viable deployments.
• Feed the product: build features, agents, and skill files with customers; fix bugs when discovered.
• Drive organisational adoption: work across technical and business stakeholders to turn early deployments into lasting customer capability.
• Work at technical depth: configure Camunda clusters, debug integration failures, and build custom agents where platform defaults don’t fit.
• Build the playbook: document best practices to make the next deployment faster.
• Hand off deliberately: leave each customer team trained, independent, and able to act on improvement results without you.

What You Bring

• Enterprise production experience: shipped something inside a large organization and stayed to see it operate; understanding of governance and resilience at scale.
• Technical depth: debug integration failures, write a custom agent against a legacy API, stand up a Camunda cluster from scratch, and explain generated BPMN to engineers and business leads.
• Stakeholder communication: effective cross-functional communication with engineering, architecture, and business leadership while adapting your style without losing precision.
• Practical AI experience: used AI to solve real problems in production, with understanding of context management, prompt engineering, agent testing, and integration tradeoffs.
• Comfort with ambiguity: make sound judgment calls without a playbook and document what you learn.
• Occasional travel may be required.
• Ability and/or willingness to use our product.

Nice‑to‑Haves

• Experience in a customer-facing engineering or professional services role.
• Familiarity with regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, or insurance.
• Production experience with agentic systems or AI-integrated workflows.
• Contributions to a shared platform or open-source project that others built on.

USEAST

Compensation

We offer competitive, fair, and transparent compensation. Salary ranges are location-based, with Standard and Major markets (global tech hubs) reflecting local competition.

The Annual Total Target Cash (base salary + 100% variable target, where applicable) shown below spans from the minimum in a Standard market to the maximum in a Major market. Final offers depend on skills, experience, and location, and we typically hire in the first half of the range to allow room for growth.

• United States: $131,100 to $211,400
• United Kingdom: £82,300 to £135,400
• Singapore: S$162,800 to S$244,200

For other locations, you’ll be hired via Remote.com, and your Talent Acquisition Partner will provide a personalized Total Rewards Calculator after your first interview.

Equity: We also offer equity (where applicable) through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP).

Benefits & Perks

• Remote & Flexible: Work from anywhere with the setup that suits you, home office budget, co-working space support, and flexible time off.
• In-person Connection: We invest in meaningful face-time through our annual kickoff and team offsites, and Camunda Connection Budgets, including contributions to meetups while travelling and local gatherings.
• Health & Wellbeing: Access locally tailored healthcare, Modern Health for global mental wellbeing, and our Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA), a flexible, global benefit that puts you in control of your whole life.
• Financial Security: Retirement and pension plans (often with company contributions), plus life and disability insurance where relevant.
• Professional Growth: Up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-driven learning: courses, certifications, books.

“Everyone is welcome at Camunda” — it’s a celebrated component of our culture. We strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our people. At Camunda, we honour diverse cultures and backgrounds and are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other protected characteristics under applicable law. We are looking forward to your application!

AI in our hiring process: Camunda may use AI tools to aid the screening of applications and during the interview process. You can learn more here.