# Forward-Deployed Engineer

tl;dr ⊹ You are the engineer who owns Prox in the field: launch customer deployments, travel on-site, debug what breaks, measure whether users trust it, and turn rollout pain into product. ⊹ This is a travel-heavy engineering role. You should be excited to spend real time with customers at dealerships, service desks, factory offices, training rooms, and wherever the product is actually being used. ⊹ You will work directly with customers, founders, and founding engineers. You will write code, shape product, build deployment infrastructure, run evals, handle rollout analytics, and push fixes into the core platform. ⊹ A real rollout might start with one champion, expand to a pilot group, then move across 100+ dealerships across the US. Your job is to make that expansion measurable, stable, and successful. ⊹ Based in San Francisco when not traveling. We work in person. What We’re Doing Prox is building the AI product specialist for manufacturers. Manufacturers use Prox as a technical support and product sales tool across the surfaces where their customers and teams already work: dealer tablets, service-desk computers, sales laptops, websites, internal tools, support workflows, and agen

- **Id**: 1245347
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/prox-forward-deployed-engineer>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T17:20:30Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T00:09:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 48
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6342
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Conversational AI, AI Agents, Customer Support & Help Desk Software

## Company

- **Id**: 3779448
- **Name**: Prox
- **Domain**: useprox.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/prox-3>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 160000
- **Max**: 190000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 190000

## Technologies

- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Service Desk** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 48

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T17:20:30Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 18
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.401
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 47
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 190000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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