Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer – Industrial AI Deployments

Max Corporate Group • San Francisco, CA

22h • Onsite

About The Position

This hands-on software engineering role combines customer-facing deployment work with direct ownership of integrations, data flows, and AI-enabled workflows. The engineer embeds with large industrial enterprise customers to bring advanced AI systems into live operational environments, translating ambiguous operational requirements into shipped technical solutions and partnering directly with customer engineering and operational teams.

The position is fully on-site in the San Francisco Bay Area and involves approximately 25% domestic travel. Candidates must be able to work in the United States. Certain sponsorship and visa-transfer scenarios may be considered for candidates already located in the United States. The role is intended for engineers who enjoy working between product development and customer deployment; pure pre-sales, non-coding consulting, and platform-configuration-only backgrounds are not aligned.

Requirements

• Approximately 1 to 5 years of hands-on software engineering, implementation engineering, solutions engineering, or forward-deployed engineering experience.
• Demonstrated ability to personally write and ship production code.
• Experience integrating software with complex customer systems.
• Hands-on experience with modern AI applications, agentic systems, and/or RAG solutions.
• Strong customer-facing communication skills combined with technical depth.
• Willingness to travel domestically approximately 25% of the time.
• Must be able to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Embed with enterprise customers to deploy AI-powered systems into live operational environments.
• Build and maintain integrations using APIs, webhooks, ETL processes, and enterprise data systems.
• Integrate with ERP, CMMS, ticketing, knowledge-management, and enterprise service platforms.
• Work with systems such as SAP and ServiceNow where required by the customer environment.
• Build agentic AI and/or retrieval-augmented generation capabilities as part of customer solutions.
• Translate ambiguous operational requirements into shipped technical solutions.
• Partner directly with customer engineering and operational teams.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed