Forward Deployed Engineer, Professional Services

Campfire Interactive, Inc.; Ann Arbor (MI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Campfire Interactive, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with customer teams and deliver live, integrated solutions on Campfire's platform.

You will translate complex business requirements into working configurations, write production-grade code, and balance hands-on building with clear technical communication to stakeholders. You will work directly with enterprise customers, drive technical discovery, and ensure successful go-live dates by delivering scalable integrations and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field preferred.
• Experience with ERP/CRM integrations and data migrations.
• Ability to work with enterprise customers under deadlines.
• Strong debugging in unfamiliar codebases.

Responsibilities

• Build and configure integrations to connect Campfire with customer ERP/CRM systems.
• Lead technical discovery and scope integration requirements.
• Migrate and validate customer data into Campfire.
• Debug issues in real-time during implementation.
• Translate customer requirements into deliverable technical solutions.
• Collaborate with Technical Account Managers and Professional Services leads to define implementation plans and timelines.
• Develop reusable tools and accelerators for future projects.
• Communicate technical tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide product feedback to inform roadmap.
• Ensure go-live dates are met with reliable production-grade integrations.

Skills

Production code

Data integration

Customer facing

Technical communication

Cloud familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

ERP systems

CRM systems

APIs & data pipelines

Cloud platforms

Job description

Company Description

Opportunities arise. Competitors emerge. Demand shifts. Volumes change. Prices rise and fall. Meanwhile, the bottom line, governing the most important decisions a CEO will make, hangs in the balance, as stakeholders await word on earnings, growth, prospects, and stock price.

Company Description

Opportunities arise. Competitors emerge. Demand shifts. Volumes change. Prices rise and fall. Meanwhile, the bottom line, governing the most important decisions a CEO will make, hangs in the balance, as stakeholders await word on earnings, growth, prospects, and stock price. That's where we come in! Campfire's unique, powerful, and cost-effective solution has kindled a growing base of happy customers around the world by bringing future and current revenues and costs under a single roof, with advanced functionality to create, analyze, and modify plans, optimize portfolios, and manage long-term profitability. Campfire's technology sparks unprecedented insight into a company's bottom line, unleashing the freedom to focus on the decisions that matter most. Join our visionary tech company and talented and passionate team as we continue to develop such valuable systems.

Job Description

We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Professional Services team, embedding directly with Campfire's enterprise and mid-market customers to build, configure, and ship the technical solutions that get them live and successful on our platform. Reporting to [Head of Professional Services], this is a hands-on, customer-facing engineering role — you will spend as much time in a customer's data and systems as you do writing code, translating complex business requirements into working integrations and configurations under real deadlines.

This is not a back-office engineering role. You will be the technical face of Campfire in the room with customer engineering and IT teams, building solutions that hold up in production.

The Ideal Candidate Is Comfortable With

• Writing production-quality code directly in customer environments, often under tight timelines
• Complex data integrations (ERP, CRM, data warehouses)
• Ambiguous, evolving requirements that shift as you learn a customer's environment
• Being the technical face of Campfire to customer engineering and IT teams
• Balancing hands-on building with clear technical communication to non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

Customer Implementation & Integration

• Build custom integrations, scripts, and configurations to connect Campfire with customer ERP, CRM, and other systems
• Lead technical discovery with customer engineering and IT teams to scope integration requirements
• Migrate and validate customer data into Campfire, ensuring accuracy and completeness
• Debug and resolve technical issues that arise during implementation, in real time

Solution Design & Delivery

• Translate ambiguous or evolving customer requirements into scoped, deliverable technical solutions
• Partner with Technical Account Managers and Professional Services leads to define implementation plans and timelines
• Build reusable tools, scripts, and accelerators that speed up future implementations
• Make pragmatic build-vs-configure tradeoffs to hit customer go-live dates

Technical Customer Engagement

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customers during implementation
• Explain technical tradeoffs and solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Build trust with customer engineering and IT teams through responsiveness and technical credibility
• Represent the customer's technical environment and constraints back to Campfire's Product and Engineering teams

Internal Collaboration & Product Feedback

• Act as a bridge between the field and Campfire's core Engineering and Product teams
• Surface recurring integration patterns, product gaps, and technical debt to inform the roadmap
• Contribute to internal documentation, playbooks, and reusable implementation frameworks
• Support Sales and Solution Consulting with technical scoping during the pre-sale process, as needed

What Success Looks Like

• Customers go live on time, with integrations that work reliably in production
• Customer engineering and IT teams view you as a trusted, credible technical partner
• Implementation patterns and tools you build get reused across future customer engagements
• Product and Engineering gain clear, actionable feedback from real customer environments
• Professional Services engagements are technically sound and set customers up for long-term success

Nice-to-Have / Preferred Experience

• Experience in a Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Implementation Engineer role
• Experience with ERP or CRM systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Salesforce)
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers under live deadlines
• Background in manufacturing, automotive, or supply chain software
• Comfort working independently, on-site or remote, embedded with customer teams

Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency in [language(s) — e.g., Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL]
• Experience with API-based integrations and data pipelines
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills in unfamiliar codebases and environments

Educational Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent practical experience considered

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.