Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - NA

Camunda; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 157,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work eligibility

Annual company events

Health & wellbeing program

Professional growth stipend

Equity

Job summary

Camunda is the enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinate AI agents, people, and systems across complex processes. We’re hiring the first cohort of Forward Deployed Engineers to bring ProcessOS into production at enterprise customers, owning the deployment journey from first process file to a working, improving system.

You’ll work end‑to‑end across Java services and React interfaces with a global team to measure, improve, and scale performance and fault

Qualifications

• Enterprise production experience inside a large organization with governance and resilience.
• Technical depth: debug an integration, stand up a Camunda cluster, explain BPMN to engineers and business leads.
• Stakeholder communication across engineering, architecture, and business leadership.
• Practical AI experience: using AI to solve real production problems, including context management and agent testing.
• Comfort with ambiguity: make sound judgments and document learnings.
• Occasional travel may be required.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and prove: own the journey from first process file to production workflow; at 90 days one workflow running, 12 months 3–5 deployments.
• Drive organizational adoption across technical and business stakeholders to build lasting customer capability.
• Configure Camunda clusters locally and in the cloud; debug integration failures; build custom agents and connectors.
• Build the playbook: document best practices and speed up future deployments.
• Feed the product: contribute custom agents and coded integration patterns back to ProcessOS.
• Hand off to a trained customer team that can operate independently and continue improvement.

Skills

Enterprise production experience

Technical depth

Stakeholder communication

Practical AI experience

Comfort with ambiguity

Occasional travel

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 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 in the middle of something bigger: transforming into an AI‑first organisation, 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. 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 put something genuinely rare 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 journey from first process file to 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.
• Drive organizational adoption. Work across technical and business stakeholders to build understanding and trust, turning early deployments into lasting customer capability.
• Work at depth technically. Configure and run Camunda clusters locally and in cloud environments. Debug integration failures. Build custom agents where platform defaults don’t fit. Write connector logic that gets legacy enterprise systems talking to ProcessOS.
• Build the playbook. There is no deployment template yet. Document what good looks like as you discover it, and make the next implementation faster.
• Feed the product. Custom agents you write get contributed back. Integration patterns get codified. Production bugs you find, you often fix. Your field work is a direct input to ProcessOS.
• Hand off deliberately. Leave customers with a team that can operate independently, is trained on the platform, and acts on improvement results without you.

What You Will Bring to the Role

Must Haves

• Enterprise production experience: you’ve shipped something inside a large organization and stayed to see it operate. You know why governance and resilience matter at scale.
• Technical depth: You can debug an integration failure, write a custom agent against a legacy API, stand up a Camunda cluster from scratch, and explain generated BPMN to both engineers and business leads.
• Stakeholder communication: you work effectively across engineering, architecture, and business leadership and adapt how you communicate without losing precision.
• Practical AI experience: you’ve used AI to solve real problems in production – not just experimented. You understand context management, prompt engineering, agent testing, and integration tradeoffs.
• Comfort with ambiguity: you make sound judgment calls without a playbook and document what you learn.
• Occasional travel may be required.

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.

This role is an existing vacancy.

What We Have to Offer

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: $157,300.00 to $253,600.00
• United Kingdom: £98,800.00 to £162,400.00
• Singapore: S$195,400.00 to S$293,000.00
• Canada: C$167,000 to C$274,700

If you’re based elsewhere, you’ll be hired via Remote.com (our global employer partner), 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

We invest in your wellbeing, growth, and ability to connect, along with perks that support you no matter where you’re based. Our benefits are globally designed and locally delivered where applicable.

• Remote & Flexible: Work from anywhere with the setup that suits you, home office budget, co‑working space support, and flexible time off to recharge when you need it.
• In Person Connection: We invest in meaningful face time through our Annual Kickoff (Vienna in 2025, Madrid in 2026!), team offsites, and Camundi Connection Budgets, including contributing to meetups while travelling,, and local gatherings with fellow Camundi.
• 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, not just work, from: staying active, to caring for family, exploring personal passions, meaningful experiences, and investing in your financial wellbeing. The Live Well program launches in 2026 and scales to €1,000 annually from 2027.
• 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, you decide!

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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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.

Thank you

We are looking forward to your application!