Forward Deployment Engineer

Foresight Data Machines • Austin, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will be on site with our customers in the heavy industries, identifying their problems, designing solutions, and implementing those solutions while working across the whole tech stack. You’re essentially the CTO of a deployment. This includes understanding customer problems rooted in manufacturing operations, physics, and chemistry; analyzing data and making models, writing frontend and backend code, building infrastructure and automation; building prototypes, rapidly iterating, and then consolidating successful solutions into maintainable and robust software; and collaborating with team members on site, and back in the office, including designers, engineers, and commercial colleagues.

Requirements

• Strong engineering. At least a bachelor degree or equivalent professional experience in engineering, physics, mathematics, computer science, or similar.
• Strong programming. We are mostly language agnostic but would expect you to be fluent in Python, C/C++, Go, Typescript, or Java.
• Interest and a taste for product design.
• Professional experience as a software engineer, data scientist, AI engineer, or similar.
• Exceptional ability demonstrated in work, school, side projects, or elsewhere.
• Excellent communication. In speech and writing.
• Conscientiousness. You want to do good work, regardless of oversight.
• You are excited to have freedom to work without too much process and friction, but at the same time, excited to share ideas and work closely with others.
• You’re excited to work in the heavy industries, and everything that goes with it. That means excited to travel, spend time in massive factories, meeting and working with a wide range of people.
• You are comfortable working in uncertain and dynamic environments.

Nice To Haves

• You have played a key role in an early-stage startup
• You have won hackathons, math, or physics competitions
• You have an impressive side project, like a popular blog or open source library

Responsibilities

• Understanding customer problems which are rooted in manufacturing operations, physics, and chemistry.
• Analysing data and making models, writing frontend and backend code, building infrastructure and automation.
• Building prototypes, rapidly iterating, and then consolidating successful solutions into maintainable and robust software.
• Collaborating with team members on site, and back in the office. This includes designers, engineers, and commercial colleagues.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior