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Recurring Decimal Inc. lists this Forward Deployed Solutions Architect opportunity in phoenix, Arizona. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Forward Deployed Solutions Architect - Agentic Commerce Trust
AI agents are starting to shop and pay on behalf of consumers. There is a need to build the trust layer that tells merchants who (and what) they're transacting with. You are expected to own the technical solution end-to-end: deciding where trust is enforced in each ecosystem, writing the ADRs, running the demos, and serving as the technical face to merchants and partners (Anthropic, Google/UCP, Cloudflare, Visa, wallet vendors).
First 90 days
Build the hook-point inventory and runtime comparison for Anthropic's blueprint (Messages API vs. Agent SDK vs. Managed Agents). Author ADRs on primary runtime target and integration architecture.
Design the reference integration: session-start identity binding, backend decisioning (approve / step-up / deny) with per-hook fail-open/closed policy, and a gateway verifier for hosted agents. Merchants change zero prompt bytes and zero gate code.
Design loyalty-without-login on UCP (namespaced loyalty signal, member pricing, reserved inventory, step-up via identity linking) and on a protocol-agnostic header/middleware rail.
Shape the Verifiable Credential POC: issuer, holder wallet, presentation flow, merchant verifier, and required privacy properties.
Write threat models, merchant integration guides, and demo runbooks with fallbacks. Then run the demos.
Must have
8+ years in solutions/software architecture with hands-on code, including production work on LLM agents with tool use.
Working knowledge of Claude (Messages API tool use, prompt caching, Agent SDK, Managed Agents) and MCP, including authenticated MCP servers.
Identity and payments experience: OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT/JWKS, HTTP message signatures, and PCI-adjacent checkout flows. Familiarity with UCP, OpenAI ACP, AP2, and KYA.
Threat-modeling and privacy-by-design skills. You write ADRs engineers follow and sequence diagrams partners can read.
Consulting-grade communication. You've led working sessions with external engineering teams and bridged executives and builders.
Nice to have
W3C VC 2.0, OID4VCI/OID4VP, SD-JWT or BBS+
Fraud/risk decisioning platforms
Cloudflare Workers / edge architectures
Prior forward-deployed or FDE role
You’ll own
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Worksite address
phoenix, AZ, 85003, US
Who can apply
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