Forward Deployed Engineer - US East Coast

n8n
Boston, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Customer-facing communication","Technical judgment","Stakeholder management","Problem-solving","Documentation"]

Embed with enterprise customers to turn strategic deployments into production-ready success stories. You’ll arrive with a hypothesis, build workflow automations and integrations (custom nodes, extensions, and missing functionality), and leave with production workflows in place. Partner with Deployment Strategists, Product, and Engineering to align on priorities, translate complex environments into actionable designs, and document gaps and learnings that improve reusable nodes and product capabilities.

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Forward Deployed Engineer - US East Coast

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Job Summary

Embed with enterprise customers to turn strategic deployments into production-ready success stories. You’ll arrive with a hypothesis, build workflow automations and integrations (custom nodes, extensions, and missing functionality), and leave with production workflows in place. Partner with Deployment Strategists, Product, and Engineering to align on priorities, translate complex environments into actionable designs, and document gaps and learnings that improve reusable nodes and product capabilities.
Location: Boston, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Drive high-impact enterprise deployments through focused 5-day on-site engagements, delivering production workflows tied to clear outcomes.
  • •Design and build production-grade automation solutions, including workflows, integrations, and custom nodes tailored to customer environments.
  • •Partner with Deployment Strategists, Product, and Engineering to align technical execution with customer priorities and adoption goals.
  • •Translate ambiguous operational problems into clear automation designs that prioritize real customer value over complexity.
  • •Create feedback loops by documenting technical gaps, implementation learnings, and reusable patterns to influence product and playbooks.
Travel: Extensive travel

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityHealth InsuranceDentalVision401kLearning BudgetRemote WorkPensionHsa

Key Requirements

  • •Solid full-stack or backend engineering experience, building integrations, APIs, or automation pipelines in production environments.
  • •Expertise creating custom nodes and extending integrations using APIs, authentication patterns, data models, and event-driven systems.
  • •Product-minded technical execution—differentiate one-off workarounds from reusable node improvements and product-worthy features.
  • •Comfort working directly in customer environments and building trust with engineers, operators, and non-technical stakeholders.
  • •Strong solution design and technical judgment to turn messy operational problems into practical designs and avoid gold-plating.
Experience:Workflow automationEnterprise deployment
Skills:Customer-facing communicationTechnical judgmentStakeholder managementProblem-solvingDocumentation
Languages:English
Tech Stack:APIsAuthenticationEvent-driven systemsWorkflow automationCustom nodesIntegrations

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

n8n
n8n provides a fair‑code workflow automation and orchestration platform that lets technical teams connect apps, build complex automations and integrate AI/LLMs via a visual, node‑based interface; available self‑hosted or cloud‑hosted.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 25M to 50M
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Valuation: USD 250M to 500M
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: Berlin, Germany
Founded: 2019
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