Forward Deployed Engineer

Ironsite AI • San Francisco, CA

50d • $100,000 - $160,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Ironsite is building the intelligence layer for the physical world. We design our own wearable hardware, deploy it alongside craft workers, and transform a shift's footage into a next-morning report. Our internal team and purpose-built models label the data overnight and deliver actionable insights to superintendents by 5 AM.

We are accelerating the speed, efficiency, and predictability of construction, especially for complex, mission-critical infrastructure projects, including data centers, LNG facilities, sports stadiums, hospitals, and other large-scale developments, by training AI models on egocentric construction footage and labor productivity data. We are built with a pro-worker philosophy at our core: we believe technology should empower the workforce, not replace it. We're working to give craft workers and project leaders better visibility into what's happening on-site, while creating a system where the reality of construction and the chaos of each day is finally available to the people running the project.

Ironsite is deployed across several of the largest active construction projects in the country. To date, we've captured more than 100,000 hours of construction footage across seven states, now process thousands of hours of site activity every day, and maintain a worker opt-out rate below two percent. This is enabled by a workforce-first architecture that anonymizes devices, captures no audio, and never releases raw video.

Ironsite is backed by leading investors (8VC, South Park Commons, Saga Ventures) and prominent operators across technology and construction, including Eric Schmidt, Jeff Dean, Jeff Rothschild, Mark Leslie, Scott Wu, Eric Glyman, Karim Atiyeh, Russell Kaplan, and others, alongside over a dozen construction industry operators who have joined us as partners in building this.

Longer term, we believe Ironsite is the foundation for what construction becomes in the next decade. We think the systems we're building are the operating system for how the physical world gets built, and will unlock a fundamentally different way of respect for our workforce. One where craft workers are more valued, more visible, and better paid for the skill they bring, and where the industry finally has the intelligence layer that makes autonomous construction possible. Both futures start with the same foundation.

Requirements

• 2+ years building software in production. You own features end to end, not just tickets.
• Strong general engineering ability. Comfortable across backend, data, and APIs, and able to pick up whatever a problem needs. Our stack leans Python, TypeScript, and SQL. You don't need all of it on day one, but you need to learn fast.
• Comfort with ambiguity and high autonomy. You'll often be the only Ironsite engineer on site, scoping and building in real time.
• Strong communication across very different audiences. You can align with an engineer and earn the trust of a field superintendent in the same day.
• Willingness to travel to active jobsites regularly (typically 5-10 days per month), including multi-day deployments.
• Comfort working in active construction environments. Outdoors, in varied weather, at height, and in compliance with site-specific safety requirements.
• Valid driver's license and ability to travel domestically without restriction.

Nice To Haves

• Prior forward deployed, solutions, integration, or field engineering experience. You've built software embedded with customers, not just from a home office.
• Construction or construction-tech experience, or genuine fluency in how a project runs (WBS or cost-code structures, schedules, labor productivity).
• Experience building data pipelines or integrations against third-party APIs.
• Familiarity with construction platforms (Procore, Autodesk Build, Primavera P6, MS Project).
• Exposure to data or ML workflows, computer vision, or analytics tooling.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Construction Management, Civil Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• OSHA 10 or OSHA 30, or willingness to obtain.
• Bilingual (English / Spanish). A large share of the crews we work with are Spanish-speaking.

Responsibilities

• Build for the field.
• Design and ship integrations between Ironsite's platform and customer systems (scheduling tools, project management platforms like Procore and Autodesk Build, and internal reporting).
• Map Ironsite's capture and labels to each contractor's own work breakdown structure and labor codes so our data connects to cost and schedule, not just video.
• Build internal tooling that makes deployments, Ground Truth labeling, and analytics faster and more reliable.
• Prototype quickly on site, then harden what works into production.
• Embed with customers and crews.
• Deploy to jobsites to understand the real workflow. How a superintendent plans the day, where data actually enters a decision, and what a generic tool always gets wrong.
• Partner with Deployment Operators, who own the day-to-day field relationship, and translate what you both see into software.
• Sit with customer leadership to scope integrations and reporting, then own delivery end to end.
• Turn field work into product.
• Feed structured observations back to Product, Engineering, Hardware, and AI. You'll be the reason a data model changes or a new integration ships.
• Partner with the Ground Truth team to make sure our activity taxonomy reflects what's actually happening on site. The trades, sequences, and edge cases that generic categories miss.
• Help decide what's worth building, because you're the person who has seen the problem in person.
• Own delivery.
• Take integrations and tools from first scope through production, with real users depending on them.
• Write maintainable code and document what you build so the next deployment inherits it.
• Balance the speed a startup needs with the reliability a jobsite demands.

Benefits

• Base salary: $100k-$160k per year, commensurate with experience
• Meaningful early-stage equity. We want the people closest to the customer to own a real piece of the outcome.
• Travel fully covered, with per diem
• Full benefits including health, dental, and vision coverage
• Company hardware and field gear
• 401(k) with 6% match

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree