Forward Deployed Engineer

Department: GTM

Location: Toronto

Employment Type: FullTime

Own the technical customer journey from implementation through adoption. As Ribbon’s Forward Deployed Engineer, you’ll work directly with customers to understand their hiring workflows, configure Ribbon for their needs, and help them successfully launch AI-powered recruiting across their teams.

You’ll sit at the intersection of customers, product, engineering, and customer success. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving customer problems, working with software, and turning real-world workflows into scalable product solutions.

About Ribbon

Ribbon is building the future of hiring: faster, smarter, and built for scale. Recognized by Fast Company as one of the Most Innovative Companies of 2026 and featured by The New York Times, BBC, Inc., and Bloomberg, we’re helping employers find the right people 10× faster. Our always-on voice AI interviewer screens candidates in minutes, identifies top talent automatically, and frees recruiters to spend time where it matters most. We work with some of the largest Fortune 500s customers in automotive, self-storage, logistics, and high-volume hiring, Ribbon is helping teams dramatically reduce time-to-hire, raise candidate quality, and scale without adding headcount.

How you'll make an impact

• Own technical implementation for customers, from onboarding and configuration through launch and ongoing optimization.

• Understand each customer’s hiring process, workflows, systems, and success metrics to help tailor Ribbon to their needs.

• Configure customer environments, interview flows, scoring criteria, integrations, reporting, and launch plans.

• Troubleshoot customer issues, investigate bugs, document edge cases, and work closely with Engineering to resolve problems quickly.

• Partner with Customer Success, Sales, Product, and Engineering to improve implementations, share customer insights, and turn repeatable needs into scalable solutions.

We are looking for someone who

• Has 1+ years of experience in software engineering, solutions engineering, implementation, technical support, or a similar technical customer-facing role.

• Is comfortable working with APIs, integrations, data flows, technical troubleshooting, and software implementation workflows.

• Has experience with, or strong interest in learning, ATS integrations, webhooks, data mapping, and SaaS implementation.

• Has any experience with ATS integrations, including building, implementing, supporting, or troubleshooting systems like Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, iCIMS, Workday, UKG, or similar platforms.

• Can quickly understand how different ATS platforms are structured, including workflows, fields, statuses, and candidate data mapping.

• Has experience with, or strong interest in, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, SQL, REST APIs, or similar technical tools.

• Enjoys working directly with customers and can explain technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Is organized, proactive, and able to manage multiple customer projects, requirements, timelines, and follow-ups.

• Is curious, resourceful, and excited to solve ambiguous customer problems in a fast-moving startup environment.

Why Ribbon

• Competitive salary + meaningful equity. We want you thinking like an owner because you are one.

• Direct customer impact. You’ll shape how companies adopt AI in one of the most important parts of their business: hiring.

• Cutting-edge tech. Work with the latest AI tooling, not yesterday’s stack.

• High-growth environment. Join at the inflection point of a fast-scaling, VC-backed company.

• Health & wellness stipend. Your mind and body are part of the product.

• Annual international offsite. Each year, we take our team on an exciting journey to a different international destination. It’s more than just travel, it’s an investment in alignment and collaboration.

• Team lunches & meetups in Toronto. A flexible hybrid work environment.

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