# Forward Deployed Engineer

DEPARTMENTEngineering LOCATIONMinneapolis, MN (Hybrid) TYPEFull time REPORTS TOCTO THE ROLE Enterprises come to Blank Metal to get production AI live. That work is led by senior people who can sit across from a client's executives, diagnose the real problem, and then go build the thing that fixes it. As a Forward Deployed Engineer you'll turn advisory conversations into shipped software, closing the gap between a promising demo and a system that runs in production, where most enterprise AI initiatives stall. You embed with a client, earn trust at the executive level, and stay hands-on from the first scoping session through the live deployment. You are equal parts technical leader and trusted advisor: you shape what gets built, you build it with a lean team of AI engineers, and you own whether it actually works in production. The playbook for this practice is still being written, and you will write a lot of it: how we embed, how we prove value, and what we bring back from each engagement. Forward deployed means what it says. Expect roughly 25 to 40% travel to client sites, heavier during kickoffs and go-lives. The rest of the time you work wherever you work best. This is a senior, h

- **Id**: 753205
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/blankmetal-forward-deployed-engineer>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Minneapolis, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-29T13:26:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-29
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T08:55:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 105
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5353
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible schedule, Flexible time off, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Consulting & Integration

## Company

- **Id**: 669668
- **Name**: Blank Metal
- **Domain**: blankmetal.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/blankmetal>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 110000
- **Max usd**: 220000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1026

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 105

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T16:21:39Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 10
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.344
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 104
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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