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That data only creates value when it is trustworthy, connected, and available at the moment a factory team needs to make a decision. We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer, Data to turn fragmented manufacturing data into durable, production-grade data products and pipelines.\nThis is a hands-on, customer-facing engineering role. You will work directly with customer data, manufacturing, and IT teams and partner closely with Forward Deployed Engineering, Product, and Engineering. You will move from an ambiguous operational question to a deployed solution - designing the architecture, writing production code, validating the data, launching with users, and keeping it reliable.\nWhat you’ll own\nDeliver customer data solutions end to end: Lead discovery, requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, go-live, documentation, and operational handoff for high-value customer use cases.\n\nBuild reliable data pipelines: Ingest, transform, reconcile, and serve data across ION and customer systems using APIs, webhooks, event streams, batch workflows, and modern data tooling.\n\nModel complex manufacturing operations: Translate parts, bills of materials, work orders, inventory, quality, labor, costs, and engineering changes into clear and maintainable data models.\n\nMake data trustworthy: Establish validation, observability, lineage, access controls, retry and backfill patterns, and incident-response practices so customers can depend on production data.\n\nTurn deployments into product leverage: Convert successful customer work into reusable pipelines, semantic models, reference architectures, test harnesses, runbooks, and platform improvements.\n\nLead through ambiguity: Set expectations with technical and nontechnical stakeholders, surface risks early, make practical tradeoffs, and remain accountable for the customer outcome.\n\nWhat we’re looking for\n5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, analytics engineering, or another role building production data systems.\n\nStrong programming ability in Python and fluency with SQL, data modeling, and software-engineering practices such as testing, version control, and code review.\n\nExperience building and operating data pipelines across APIs, transactional databases, event streams, object storage, and cloud data platforms.\n\nSound judgment around distributed-system and data-quality failure modes, including idempotency, ordering, schema evolution, reconciliation, observability, and access control.\n\nAbility to work directly with customers, turn ambiguous operational problems into clear technical plans, and communicate tradeoffs to both engineers and business leaders.\n\nIf you do four of these five things well, we encourage you to apply. We care more about evidence of ownership, learning, and shipped outcomes than a perfect keyword match.\nNice to have\nExperience with manufacturing, supply-chain, ERP, PLM, MES, quality, or industrial data.\n\nExperience with AWS and modern data technologies such as dbt, Airflow or Dagster, Kafka or similar event systems, and cloud warehouses or lakehouses.\n\nExperience designing metrics layers, analytical data products, or operational reporting used by frontline teams.\n\nFamiliarity with enterprise security, regulated environments, air-gapped networks, or customer-managed infrastructure.\n\nExperience in a customer-facing technical role such as forward deployed engineering, solutions architecture, technical consulting, or implementation engineering.\n\nBenefits & Perks\nHealth Insurance; medical, vision, dental, & life insurance.\n\nPaid Parental Leave.\n\nEmployee Stock Option Plan.\n\nTeam outings, group lunches, open office, happy hours.\n\nPaid holidays, sick days.\n\nFlexible Friday and PTO.\n\n401K.\n\nFirst Resonance is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce.\nFirst Resonance participates in E-Verify. As part of our onboarding process, a new hire's Form I-9 information will be shared with the federal government to confirm they are authorized to work in the U.S.\nPay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience and skillset, and location.\nFirst Resonance accelerates the speed and reliability of hardware development for companies manufacturing the next generation of hardware products. This includes space exploration, electric airplanes, autonomous vehicles, nuclear reactors, robotics, and more. We are a group of software, hardware, and manufacturing engineers that are bringing the best of modern UX and data science to an industry that has been overly rigid in its innovation. 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