First Orion
Forward Deployed Engineer
We captured this posting once, on 2026-07-06, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.
- Employer
- First Orion
- Location
- Little Rock, AR
- Seniority
- Mid level
- Experience asked for
- 4+ years
- Pay band
- Not disclosed
When we saw it
- Posted 2026-07-02 — the date the employer published it
- Archived 2026-07-06 — when we saved this copy
Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.
Skills the posting named
From the posting
ABOUT THE ROLE Branded Messaging is First Orion's A2P RCS messaging platform team. We're hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to own the technical thread end-to-end — from pre-sales support through production deployment. Pre-sales technical support runs through this function: you'll run discovery, demos, and proofs-of-concept alongside First Orion's shared commercial sellers, then embed with the customer to write integration code, build reference implementations, and ship branded messaging into production. It's a hands-on engineering role at the customer edge, where you're measured on both deals won and working deployments — not slideware. …
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