--- title: Forward Deployed Engineer at Campfire description: Campfire is hiring for the Forward Deployed Engineer role in San Francisco, CA. Pays $140K–$165K per year. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/forward-deployed-engineer-office-ceo-at-campfire-01a0f488-0627-73df-8598-378e02f14121 date: 2026-11-15T01:26:44Z og_description: Join Campfire as Forward Deployed Engineer in San Francisco, CA. Pays $140K–$165K per year. Full-time, on-site role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/1aqmtv.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | Campfire | | **Location** | New York, NY | | **Salary** | $180K/yr - $220K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Oct 01, 2026 | ## Is this job real? **Ghost job check:** C · Some flags. Mostly fine, a few things to check. ## Visa sponsorship - **H-1B:** No H-1B sponsorship on record for Campfire. - **E-Verify:** No E-Verify enrollment on record for Campfire. ## Pay for similar jobs Most similar jobs pay $167,000 – $225,000 a year (median $190,000). ## Description ### **About Campfire** Campfire is an AI-native ERP for financial operations. Accounting teams and fractional CFO firms at fast-growing companies use it to run their close, revenue recognition, AP/AR, consolidations and reporting. Ember, our AI layer, works alongside accountants on the ledger itself. You'll be the engineer embedded with our largest enterprise customers, owning their technical onboarding from kickoff to go-live. You write real code — integrations, scripts, tooling — and turn what you learn in the field into product improvements. You report into Engineering and work side by side with Sales, Implementation and Product. ## **What you'll do** - Lead technical onboarding for enterprise customers: scoping, integrations, configuration, go-live - Support customers with complex or custom data migrations from legacy ERPs and GLs (NetSuite, Sage Intacct, QuickBooks) - Build and configure integrations with banks, billing, payroll and HRIS systems - Write production-quality code, scripts and tooling to speed up each rollout - Be the customer's technical point of contact; run working sessions with controllers and finance leads - Turn repeated field work into product: file clear specs, ship fixes, and build reusable onboarding tools - Partner with Sales on technical discovery and solution design for late-stage enterprise deals ## **What you bring** - 4+ years as a software engineer, solutions engineer or FDE - Strong in Python or TypeScript and SQL; comfortable with APIs, data pipelines and messy data - Experience leading customer-facing technical projects end to end - Clear communicator with both engineers and finance teams - Ownership mindset: you get customers live, not just unblocked - Willing to travel to customer sites as needed ## **Nice to have** - Accounting knowledge: GL, close process, revenue recognition (ASC 606) - Hands-on ERP migration or implementation experience - Background at a fintech, ERP or enterprise SaaS company - Experience with enterprise security and compliance reviews ## **Success in the first year** - Enterprise customers go live on time - Onboarding time drops through tooling you built - Field feedback ships as product improvements - Customers name you as a reason they chose to expand ## Skills - NetSuite ERP - Enterprise Security - Enterprise Resource Planning - Payroll Processing - Go - Onboarding - Python - Month-End Close - SQL - Billing - General Ledger - Intacct ERP - Revenue Recognition - HarrisData Human Resources Information System HRIS - TypeScript - Data Migration - Intuit QuickBooks - Solution Design - Software as a Service (SaaS) - Data Pipeline - Solutions Engineering ## Related - [Technology & Software jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Software Development jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/software-development?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Software Developer / Engineer jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/software-development/software-developer-engineer?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Forward Deployed Engineer jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/software-development/software-developer-engineer/forward-deployed-engineer?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Explore this job market - [New York](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/new-york?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 150112 jobs - [Software Products](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/software-products?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 118918 jobs - [New York, NY](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/new-york/new-york?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 66066 jobs ## Related pages - [New York](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/new-york?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 150112 jobs - [Software Products](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/software-products?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 118918 jobs - [New York, NY](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/new-york/new-york?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 66066 jobs ## Browse - [Companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by country](https://www.foundrole.com/locations?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs in the United States by state and city](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B sponsors by location](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-sponsors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B salaries](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-salaries?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Sectors and industries](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by career field](https://www.foundrole.com/careers?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Latest jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/latest?utm_source=ai_markdown)