Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
True Talent Solutions Partners · San Francisco · onsite
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join an early-stage AI company as a founding forward deployed engineer, building and deploying AI-powered workflows for manufacturing procurement and supply chain operations. You will work directly with customers and the platform engineering team to turn operational challenges into production systems.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Work with customer IT, supply chain, and procurement teams to identify and scope new workflows and use cases.
- Build and ship production code in customer environments, extending solutions in ways that can scale across deployments.
- Lead technical deployments from discovery through go-live and take ownership of customer outcomes.
- Travel to customer facilities, including internationally, to work alongside operators and support adoption.
- Share field insights with platform engineers to improve deployment speed and reliability.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- One to five years of experience in customer-facing full-stack or forward deployed engineering, with strong software engineering fundamentals.
- Experience gathering technical requirements, translating ambiguous problems into specifications, and shipping end-to-end workflow or automation deployments to production.
- Experience owning customer deployments and production outcomes in enterprise environments, ideally at a growth-stage technology company.
- Working knowledge of Python or similar languages, SQL, APIs, enterprise data, and systems such as ERP platforms; familiarity with large language models, AI agents, or supply chain platforms is useful.
- Clear communication, sound problem-solving, and the ability to work independently without established playbooks.
- Exposure to manufacturing, industrial, or supply chain environments is beneficial.
- Comfort with international travel, approximately 15% to 30%, primarily to Europe and Asia.
- Must be a US citizen or hold a Green Card; visa sponsorship is not available.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary: $175,000 to $255,000 annually. Equity is not specified.
LOCATION
On-site in San Francisco, California, with an expectation of working in person five days per week.