Forward Deployed Engineer

Ironsite AI • San Francisco, CA

11d • $75,000 - $125,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Ironsite is a company that is revolutionizing the construction industry by using wearable cameras and AI to analyze jobsite footage. This data is used to improve safety, reduce labor costs, and speed up project delivery. The company has captured over 50,000 hours of footage and works with major construction companies across the United States, and is expanding nationwide. The Forward Deployed Engineer role is crucial for bridging the gap between Ironsite's technology and the field operations. This role involves being present on job sites, building trust with field crews, and ensuring the quality of data collected. It is a hands-on position, distinct from traditional software roles, requiring individuals with practical field experience who can understand the day-to-day realities of construction work and communicate effectively with various stakeholders, from superintendents to engineers.

Requirements

• 1–5 years of construction field experience — as a foreman, superintendent, project engineer, field engineer, craft worker, or similar
• Broad exposure across general trades. You can walk a site and understand what's in front of you, whether it's framing, concrete, MEP, or finishes
• Wide availability to travel. This role requires frequent, sometimes short-notice travel to jobsites nationwide, including multi-day and multi-week deployments
• Comfort working in active construction environments — outdoors, in varied weather, at height, and in compliance with site-specific safety requirements
• Strong communication across audiences. You can brief a GC's leadership in the morning and troubleshoot with a crew at lunch
• High autonomy and sound judgment. You'll frequently be the only Ironsite person on site, making calls in real time
• Valid driver's license and ability to travel domestically without restriction

Nice To Haves

• Bilingual (English / Spanish). A large share of the crews we work with are Spanish-speaking, and being able to onboard someone in their first language materially changes adoption
• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, or a related field
• Familiarity with scheduling, WBS/cost-code structures, or labor productivity analysis
• OSHA 10 / OSHA 30, or willingness to obtain
• Experience with hardware deployment, field IT, or networking (Starlink, cellular, mesh)
• Comfort with data tools — spreadsheets, SQL, or light scripting — to make sense of your own deployments

Responsibilities

• Own deployments end to end
• Travel to jobsites across the country to deploy, configure, and support cases of Ironsite devices
• Run pre-deployment site walks: assess site conditions, safety requirements, crew size and composition, and logistics, then translate those findings into a workable deployment plan
• Stand up on-site infrastructure — connectivity, charging and docking locations, device storage and security — and solve the physical problems that come with real construction sites
• Lead deployment readiness reviews with internal stakeholders and drive open items to closure before Day 1
• Build trust with crews and contractor leadership
• Onboard craft workers to the hardware: fit devices, explain what we do and don't capture, and answer honest questions honestly
• Serve as the day-to-day point of contact for superintendents, project engineers, and self-perform leads
• Read the room on a jobsite. Adoption depends on the crew believing this helps them, and that's earned in person
• Turn field work into product
• 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
• Map capture back to the contractor's own work breakdown structure and labor codes so findings connect to cost and schedule, not just video
• Feed structured observations back to Hardware, Engineering, and AI. You'll be the reason a mount gets redesigned or a model gets retrained
• Keep the fleet healthy
• Manage device inventory, charging cadence, firmware, and pack-out across concurrent deployments
• Diagnose and resolve hardware and connectivity issues in the field, often without a second set of hands
• Document what you learn so the next deployment goes faster than the last

Benefits

• Base salary: $75,000 – $125,000 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
• Health, dental, and vision coverage
• Company hardware and field gear

What This Job Offers

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