Remote Forward-Deployed Product Engineer, Internal Tools

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Giga is hiring a Forward Deployed Product Engineer for Internal Tools & Automation to build the internal products that keep a fast-growing operation moving. You will learn how work happens, define reliable records, and collaborate with software builders to turn handoffs into automated, AI-assisted workflows.

Initial focus spans sourcing to fulfillment, with automation of data, permissions, and decision rules.

Qualifications

• Owns cross-functional workflows from idea to delivery with measurable results.
• Strong process-discovery to uncover undocumented rules and ownership gaps.
• Fluent with relational data: entities, joins, lifecycle states, and data quality.
• Ability to write and review SQL to inspect, join, reconcile, and validate data.
• Experience with APIs, integrations, authentication, events or webhooks, and failure handling.
• Experience partnering with software engineers while owning business outcomes and user adoption.

Responsibilities

• Discover and document critical workflows by working with operators.
• Define core records, identifiers, lifecycle states, owners, and decision rules.
• Use SQL and data inspection to reconcile records and identify quality issues.
• Map information flow across systems, spreadsheets, APIs, and handoffs.
• Identify where deterministic automation or AI can improve speed and accuracy.
• Prototype with clear permissions and human review, then scale useful changes.
• Release work in small, value-focused increments.
• Write workflow briefs, data contracts, and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with engineers on architecture while owning outcomes and adoption.
• Lead rollout, training, migration, and support planning.

Skills

Cross-functional ownership

Process discovery

Relational data fluency

SQL proficiency

APIs & integrations

Product judgment

Remote collaboration

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

SQL

APIs

Job description

Giga is hiring a Forward Deployed Product Engineer for Internal Tools & Automation to build the internal products that keep a fast-growing operation moving. You will learn how work happens, define reliable records, and collaborate with software builders to turn handoffs into automated, AI-assisted workflows.

Initial focus spans sourcing to fulfillment, with automation of data, permissions, and decision rules.