Description review

Shovels | Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE) | Remote | Full-time

Shovels · Remote · back to the listing

HR standards

43/100

poor

Title ↔ description

66/100

needs work

Reads as

Sales Engineer

83% confident

What this role officially is

technical sales representative — ESCO, the EU occupation classification

Technical sales representatives act for a business to sell its merchandise while providing technical insight for customers.

Also known as: assistant technical sales representative, field saleswoman, inside technical sales representative, field salesperson, technical field sales representative, trainee technical sales engineer

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What the listing never says

  • No section describes what the person would actually do. Scope clarity
  • No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency

The listing, marked up

Nothing in the wording of this listing tripped a check. The scores above still judge how complete and coherent it is.

Shovels is the intelligence layer for the built world. We're venture-backed, trusted by some of the largest Fortune 100 companies in the world.
We have a lot of customers and a lot of technical needs from those customers. That's why we're hiring a true Forward Deployed Engineer: a real engineer who wants to work shoulder-to-shoulder with customers and turn their hardest questions into working solutions.
You'll embed into our most important enterprise accounts, understand what they're actually trying to do, and build the maps, models, and data products that make Shovels indispensable to them, working alongside AI agents the way the rest of our engineering team does.
This is not a hand-off role: you own the relationship and the build, from the first "what if we could see…" to the moment the customer says "wow."
Check it out: https://www.shovels.ai/careers/forward-deployed-engineer

How this was produced

Highlights are found by rule, not by a model: each one is a phrase matched at a known position, and every note is a template we wrote. The two scores come from a typed-decision model (Jev) that reads the listing against the official role definition and real listings for the same role, and returns probabilities rather than prose — it never writes any of the words on this page, and never chooses what to highlight.

Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 12 points (from 55 before penalties). Reviewed 21 Sep 2026.