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The team works inside complex manufacturing environments to turn ambiguous operational problems into deployed software, successful go-lives, and lasting customer value. We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineering Leader to lead and scale that function.\nThis is not a delivery-coordination role. You will be a technical and people leader accountable for the quality of the team, the health of the deployment portfolio, and the business outcomes created by FDE work. You will coach engineers, shape architecture and delivery decisions, step into critical customer situations, and build the operating system that lets the team grow without losing speed or ownership.\nWhat you’ll own\nBuild and lead an exceptional FDE team: Hire, onboard, coach, and retain engineers across levels; set clear expectations; give direct feedback; and create meaningful paths for technical and leadership growth.\n\nOwn the deployment portfolio: Set priorities, staffing, capacity, milestones, and risk management across concurrent customer engagements, ensuring high-quality delivery and measurable customer outcomes.\n\nRaise the technical and delivery bar: Establish standards for discovery, architecture, implementation, testing, go-live, documentation, production support, and deployment reviews.\n\nLead critical customer moments: Serve as an executive and technical escalation point for strategic deployments, complex integrations, production incidents, and high-stakes tradeoffs.\n\nConnect delivery to growth: Partner with Sales and Customer Success on technical discovery, scoping, expansion strategy, and account planning so FDE capacity produces durable adoption and revenue.\n\nTurn field learning into leverage: Create a tight feedback loop with Product and Engineering, productize repeatable customer solutions, improve FDE tooling and automation, and evolve the team’s operating model as the company scales.\n\nYou will lead through managers and senior individual contributors over time, but you must remain close enough to the work to recognize strong architecture, challenge assumptions, and help the team make sound decisions in unfamiliar customer environments.\nWhat we’re looking for\n8+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, technical consulting, or enterprise implementation, including 3+ years managing engineers.\n\nA track record of building and developing high-performing technical teams while improving both delivery predictability and engineering quality.\n\nStrong technical judgment across modern software systems, APIs, integrations, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, security, and production operations.\n\nExperience owning a portfolio of complex, customer-facing technical programs from discovery through go-live and ongoing operation.\n\nExecutive-level communication and commercial judgment: you can align customers and internal leaders, manage scope and risk, and connect technical choices to adoption, expansion, and revenue.\n\nNice to have\nExperience leading forward deployed, solutions architecture, professional services, implementation engineering, or technical account teams.\n\nExperience with manufacturing, aerospace, defense, energy, industrial software, ERP, PLM, MES, or other operationally complex domains.\n\nEvidence of scaling a technical services or deployment function while increasing repeatability, margins, or revenue contribution.\n\nExperience partnering with Product and Engineering to turn customer-specific work into reusable platform capabilities.\n\nFamiliarity with enterprise security, regulated environments, air-gapped networks, and high-availability production systems.\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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