About this role
We are looking for experienced Forward Deployed Engineers to design and build reusable skills
for Claude Code.
About the Client
The world's largest human resources consulting firm, headquartered in New York City, with main
branches in 40+ countries. Over 25,000 employees operate internationally in more than 130
countries. Its services are used by 97% of Fortune 500 companies.
Role Overview
We are looking for experienced Forward Deployed Engineers to design and build reusable skills
for Claude Code.
The team will work closely with business stakeholders and domain experts to translate business
requirements, reference materials, and operational knowledge into reliable Claude Code Skills.
This is a hands-on engineering role at the intersection of software development, prompt and
context engineering, and business process automation.
Key Responsibilities:
Collaborate directly with business stakeholders and domain experts to understand their objectives, processes, constraints, and expected outcomes.
Analyse business requirements, documentation, examples, templates, and other reference materials provided by stakeholders.
Identify workflows and use cases that can be implemented or improved through Claude Code Skills.
Design, implement, test, and maintain reusable Claude Code Skills.
Create clear skill instructions, supporting scripts, reference materials, validation logic, and reusable workflow components.
Translate complex or ambiguous business processes into structured, executable instructions for AI agents.
Evaluate skill behaviour using realistic scenarios, test cases, and acceptance criteria.
Improve the reliability, accuracy, usability, and maintainability of developed skills through iterative testing and stakeholder feedback.
Required Experience:
Strong hands-on experience using Claude Code in real software-development or business-workflow scenarios.
Practical experience creating Claude Code Skills or comparable reusable capabilities for AI coding agents.
Strong understanding of modern AI engineering patterns, including agentic workflows, tool use, prompt engineering, context engineering, and structured instruction design.
Proven hands-on software engineering experience and the ability to build, review, test, and maintain production-quality solutions.
Ability to transform business requirements and domain knowledge into clear technical designs and executable workflows.
Experience evaluating and improving non-deterministic AI solutions.
Nice to have:
Hands-on experience with Claude Code, and specifically with authoring Claude Code
Skills, plugins, or MCP servers.
Evaluation tooling for LLM systems (promptfoo, LangSmith, custom harnesses).
Consulting or professional services background.
Domain exposure to HR technology, compensation & benefits, payroll, or workforce analytics.
Experience building internal developer tooling or standing up a platform capability.
Public artefacts: open-source agent tooling, published skills or plugins, conference talks, technical writing on agentic engineering.
💼 What we offer
- Model: B2B contract with Bonapolia - one contract, one monthly invoice
- Rate: negotiated per candidate seniority and client budget
- Payment: monthly invoice, paid on the same schedule the client pays us (usually 30 days)
- Contract written under your country's law
- We handle the client-side paperwork: MSA, NDA, invoicing
🏢 About Bonapolia
Bonapolia is a family-owned IT staff augmentation team based in Lisbon. We build engineering teams for product companies and IT consultancies across Europe and the US.
More at bonapolia.com
📩 Ready to Join?
We look forward to receiving your application and welcoming you to our team!