{"id":3895974,"url":"https://alion.io/job/digicert-forward-deployed-engineer","title":"Forward Deployed Engineer","company":{"id":20716,"name":"Digicert","domain":"digicert.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/digicert","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":88,"open_postings":4,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.5,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":41,"computed_at":"2026-11-06T05:58:05Z"}},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":"middle","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":155000,"max":200000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":200000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":4,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Context Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Function Calling","optional":false},{"name":"Human-in-the-Loop","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":false},{"name":"PKI","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Databricks","optional":true},{"name":"DNS","optional":true},{"name":"FedRAMP","optional":true},{"name":"Jira","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-06T19:24:06Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-06","last_verified_at":"2026-11-06T23:17:38Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Who we are\nDigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at www.digicert.com\nJob summary\nForward Deployed Engineers at DigiCert are software engineers who embed with a business function (Sales, Support, Finance, Legal, HR, Procurement, Marketing), learn how the work actually gets done, and ship production AI solutions that drive measurable efficiency and ROI: agents on our systems of record, automated workflows, and AI-native tools wired into the architecture people already use. \nYou arethe hands-on CTO of each engagement. You’ll find where AI delivers the highest return, decide the technical plan, write and deploy the code, and keep improving it after launch. \nThis is not a research role. You will own the work from first conversation to production, and are judged on what ships and what it returns, not on pilots or demos. \nWhat you will do\nEmbed and find the work. Sit with business users, understand and map their workflows, data, and systems, and find where AI accelerates growth or saves the most time and money. \nOwn the architecture. Decide whether to build, buy, or configure solutions, weighing cost, speed, and long-term fit, and lead the technical side of vendor evaluations. \nWrite and ship production code. Build integrations, agents, and workflows with retrieval, tool use, and human-in-the-loop review. Test, deploy, and support what you ship. \nMake AI reliable. Build systems that hold up against fragmented data and unpredictable model behavior. Find the failure cases before users do and decide where humans stay in control. \nBuild the shared foundation. Partner with IT, Security, and Engineering on model access, identity and permissions, data connectivity, observability, and evaluation. Turn one-off wins into reusable components, so each engagement ships faster than the last. \n Prove the value. Every solution ships with a baseline, a measured improvement, and a hard number (hours saved, cost avoided, cycle time cut) for the sponsoring executive. \nLeave the business stronger. Work with our enablement team to train operators and power users, so systems keep running and improving after you move on. \nHow we work \nThe Enterprise AI team is intense by design. It's a small team with an outsized impact on the business: what we ship changes how DigiCert runs, and the results reach the top of the company. The pace is fast and the standards are high, but so is the support. People share what they learn, challenge each other, and step in to help. \nThis is probably not the right place if you want a narrow scope, a predictable pace, or distance from internal customers. This role is built for engineers who want ownership, hard problems, a steep learning curve, and work that visibly moves the business. \nWhat you will have\n4+ years building and shipping production software that people depended on, and supporting it after launch. Software engineering, forward-deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or startup backgrounds all fit. \n2+ years building with LLMs in production: agents, retrieval, tool calling (including MCP), and context engineering. You can explain how you measured and improved a system’s performance, and what it was worth to the business. \nStrong coding ability in Python or TypeScript/JavaScript. You write, test, review, and deploy your own code, and you are fluent with APIs, webhooks, data pipelines, and authentication (OAuth, SSO, role-based access). \nDaily use of coding agents, and the discipline to review and validate what they produce. \nComfort and proficiency working directly with non-technical users: asking great questions, learning an unfamiliar business fast, and turning messy processes into working software.\nJudgment in security and compliance-sensitive environments. You know what data cannot leave the building and design accordingly.\nClear and effective written and spoken communication. You can write a one-page memo that makes the technical and business case to an executive. \nNice to have\nPrior forward-deployed engineering, product management, or early-engineer experience. \nExperience integrating enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, Microsoft 365, NetSuite, Jira, and Databricks. \nExposure to SOX, FedRAMP, or similar control environments. \nExperience in a security or PKI company, or another business where trust is the product. \nBenefits\nCompetitive compensation and comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage \nRetirement savings programs with company matching (401(k) or RRSP) \nGenerous paid time off, including holidays, and vacation \nPaid parental leave and family support benefits \nLife and disability coverage \nFlexible spending and health savings options (where applicable) \nHealth and wellness support, including gym reimbursement and wellness programs \nEmployee Assistance Program with 24/7confidential support for employees and families \nEducation assistance and professional development opportunities \nAccess to LinkedIn Learning and continuous learning resources \nEmployee referral bonus program and additional company perks and discounts \nInternal rewards and recognition platform (Motivosity) to celebrate and acknowledge project wins, milestone achievements, and the outstanding contributions of our colleagues\nBusiness travel insurance and global employee support programs \nTo protect candidate information and maintain a secure hiring process, all applications must be submitted through our careers portal. Resumes or CVs sent directly via email will not be reviewed or considered.\nDigiCert is an Equal Opportunity employer and is committed to diversity in its workforce. In compliance with applicable federal and state laws, DigiCert prohibits discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, veteran’s status, status as a qualified person with a disability, or genetic information. Individuals from historically underrepresented groups, such as minorities, women, qualified person with disabilities, and protected veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.\nCompensation Transparency: \nThe annualized base salary range for this position is outlined below. \nEach candidate’s compensation offer will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, job duties, business needs, and location. For roles that include additional compensation components, total compensation may include base pay, bonus, equity, or other incentives. \nThis role may also be eligible for benefits, which will be discussed during the hiring process. We are committed to fair and transparent pay practices and comply with all applicable pay transparency requirements. If you would like more information about compensation or benefits, we are happy to provide additional details during the hiring process. \nFor more information regarding our comprehensive benefits, see the benefits section. \nBase Salary\n$155,000—$200,000 USD","description_format":"text","description_chars":7370,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning","Equity","Parental leave","Professional development","Wellness"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Identity Management","Digital Signature","DNS Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-06T23:17:38Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"adverts_offering_sponsorship_24m":0,"sanctioned_now":false,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 4","filings_12m":4,"filings_prev_12m":13,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":127500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-11-06T22:30:08+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":1}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":41,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-07T01:07:19Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":200000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/digicert-forward-deployed-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/digicert-forward-deployed-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-07T01:07:19Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2745,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-08T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":20716},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=20716"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fdigicert-forward-deployed-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fdigicert-forward-deployed-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fdigicert-forward-deployed-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/digicert-forward-deployed-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fdigicert-forward-deployed-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3895974}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"digicert.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3895974},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}