Principal Forward-Deployed Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +9 more states.

📋 Description

• Collaborate closely with procurement teams and buying centers to assess business requirements and convert S2P and supplier agreement scenarios into production-ready IAM solutions.

• Work alongside CPOs, sourcing directors, category managers, legal operations, and IT architects throughout the agreement lifecycle.

• Facilitate discovery and design sessions covering intake, negotiation, contracting, spend analysis, and post-signature supplier management.

• Create and provide AI-driven agreement solutions utilizing IAM capabilities, vendor hubs, and automated obligation extraction frameworks.

• Operate independently within an FDE pod while mentoring newer team members.

• Educate client procurement teams, sourcing managers, and end users on platform functionalities, supplier data model configurations, and AI enablement.

• Develop procurement demonstrations and proofs of concept, articulate business value, and document solution design transitions.

• Guide FDEs through design and code evaluations and contribute reusable procurement prompt libraries, workflow scaffolds, and agreement integrations.

• Construct AI-enabled agreement solutions, agentic intake workflows, and obligation management pipelines across Docusign IAM and enterprise procurement systems.

• Prototype bi-directional integrations with SAP Ariba, Coupa, and Oracle Procurement Cloud for vendor master data, PR/PO creation, and pricing terms.

• Make architectural decisions that balance quality, safety, latency, cost, and risk when extracting contractual terms.

• Deliver workflow configurations and design scalable vendor hierarchy models and contract family tracking.

• Contribute reusable S2P workflow templates, extraction models, renewal agent briefs, and ERP connector implementations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Data Science, or Engineering.

• Over 12 years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, data science, or analytics engineering.

• More than 1 year of hands-on experience in building and deploying GenAI/LLM-powered solutions within client sandbox environments.

• Over 12 years of experience leading project workstreams with procurement or legal stakeholders, translating business/sourcing challenges into AI agreement solutions.

• At least 5 years of experience integrating applications with enterprise P2P/S2P software or CLM systems.

• Willingness to travel approximately 50% of the time.

• In-depth knowledge of Source-to-Pay procurement lifecycles, intake-to-procure orchestration, and supplier lifecycle management.

• Experience in configuring or developing solutions on Docusign IAM, Navigator, Workflow, or CLM platforms.

• Direct experience working with client technical teams, CPOs, and category managers.

• Background in data engineering involving contract data pipelines, table extraction models, vendor master deduplication, or spend analytics.

• Experience in integrating intake and orchestration tools with procurement backends.

• Excellent presentation skills.

• Familiarity with security, privacy, and compliance requirements.

• Must possess authorization to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis without current or future sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Variable incentive pay or company bonus plan, contingent on role and performance.

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

• Paid time off and paid company holidays, depending on the region.

• Up to six months of paid parental leave.

• Comprehensive health benefits plans, including options for 100% employer-paid plans from day one.

• Retirement and pension programs with potential employer contributions.

• Coaching, online courses, and education reimbursements.

• Paid compassionate care leave.