# Forward Deployed Engineer at Valdera

- Company: Valdera
- What the company does: Valdera is the sourcing and procurement platform that makes it easy to buy or sell chemicals, ingredients, and raw materials. We partner with segment leaders, ranging from the world's largest CPG manufacturers to household names in the beauty industry. Backed by Index.
- Company website: https://www.valdera.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Posted: 2026-08-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/valdera/d734a9de-3890-407c-b7ef-95576db4e604
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/valdera-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

Our culture empowers top talent to take on meaningful challenges, collaborate with industry leaders, and see the real impact of their work. If you’re looking for a fast-paced environment where your ideas drive change, Valdera is the place for you.

## What they're looking for

- Engineering fundamentals: Solid engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production software. We care more about fundamentals than exact-stack trivia
- Comfortable with ambiguity: Customer environments will all look different, and you need to be able to walk in understanding the fundamentals of what's needed, even if the way to get there may be different by customer
- Intellectually curious & customer first: You're genuinely curious about the customer's problem and excited to dig into the weeds to solve something new
- Strong communicator: You can communicate written and verbally with a customer's procurement team, their tech team, and our engineering team all in ways that make sense to them
- Prior forward deployed, solutions, sales, or implementation engineering experience at an enterprise software company
- Familiarity with procurement, finance, or ERP ecosystems, especially SAP (Oracle, NetSuite, Coupa, Ariba a plus)

Tags: Engineering