Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE Join the customer-facing engineering team at an AI company serving manufacturing and supply chain operations. You will build and deploy AI-powered workflows with customers, taking solutions from discovery through production and helping shape the deployment approach as the team grows. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Work with customer IT, procurement, and supply chain teams to identify and scope new workflows and use cases. - Build and ship production code in customer environments, designing solutions that can scale across deployments. - Lead technical deployments from discovery through go-live and own outcomes such as inventory, sourcing efficiency, and forecast accuracy. - Travel to customer facilities, including internationally, to work alongside operators and support adoption. - Bring customer feedback and field learnings to platform engineering to improve future deployments. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - One to five years of customer-facing full-stack or forward-deployed engineering experience, with a strong software engineering foundation. - Experience owning customer deployments and shipping production systems in enterprise environments at a growth-stage technology company. - Ability to clarify ambiguous problems, gather technical requirements, scope end-to-end workflows, and deliver solutions to production. - Working knowledge of Python or a similar language, SQL, APIs, enterprise data, and related systems such as ERP platforms. - Comfort working independently in an early-stage environment, communicating clearly, and identifying additional use cases with customers. - Exposure to manufacturing, industrial, or supply chain operations is valuable. A strong computer science foundation is expected. - Willingness to travel internationally, primarily to Europe and Asia, approximately 15% to 30% of the time. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: $175,000 to $255,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. LOCATION On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week.