Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI company as a founding forward deployed engineer, building and deploying AI-powered workflows for manufacturing procurement and supply chain operations. You will work directly with customers and the platform engineering team to turn operational challenges into production systems.

What You'll Do

• Work with customer IT, supply chain, and procurement teams to identify and scope new workflows and use cases.

• Build and ship production code in customer environments, extending solutions in ways that can scale across deployments.

• Lead technical deployments from discovery through go-live and take ownership of customer outcomes.

• Travel to customer facilities, including internationally, to work alongside operators and support adoption.

• Share field insights with platform engineers to improve deployment speed and reliability.

What We're Looking For

• One to five years of experience in customer-facing full-stack or forward deployed engineering, with strong software engineering fundamentals.

• Experience gathering technical requirements, translating ambiguous problems into specifications, and shipping end-to-end workflow or automation deployments to production.

• Experience owning customer deployments and production outcomes in enterprise environments, ideally at a growth-stage technology company.

• Working knowledge of Python or similar languages, SQL, APIs, enterprise data, and systems such as ERP platforms; familiarity with large language models, AI agents, or supply chain platforms is useful.

• Clear communication, sound problem-solving, and the ability to work independently without established playbooks.

• Exposure to manufacturing, industrial, or supply chain environments is beneficial.

• Comfort with international travel, approximately 15% to 30%, primarily to Europe and Asia.

• Must be a US citizen or hold a Green Card; visa sponsorship is not available.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $175,000 to $255,000 annually. Equity is not specified.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, with an expectation of working in person five days per week.