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We help companies optimize demand forecasting, replenishment, merchandising, pricing and promotions, supply chain operations, and production planning across the end-to-end value chain. \nWho we are \nWe work on the decisions where retail margins are won and lost. Changing a price is easy. Knowing which of fifty thousand prices to change, what it does to demand, and whether last week’s promotion actually made money is not. That is what we build for. RELEX Solutions delivers a unified supply chain and retail planning platform for retailers and manufacturers, enabled by proven AI technology, with a global team of over 2,000 professionals working side-by-side with our customers. \nThe role \nIn response to our fast growth in North America, we are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer with a strong data science foundation for our US Merchandising business. You will be part of the central engineering team, and work with the US operations team, directly with US customers. You will be the scientific and technical face of RELEX Merchandising to US retailers. \nWhat makes this role different \nThis is not a consulting role and not a solutions architect role. You write production code and build production models that run in live customer environments. And it is not a generalist engineering seat: co-developing forecast and optimization improvements with a customer is science work, and the bar is set by some of the most demanding retailers in the US. \nThe hard part of this job is not prototyping quickly. The hard part is that the improvement you co-develop has to be right, hold up in front of the customer’s own analysts, and then run in production every week. You walk in with a hypothesis, test it on their data, and stand behind the result, limitations included. \nWhat you'll do\nOwn technical delivery end to end, from discovery through go-live: configuration, extensions, integrations, and the quality of everything that ships into the customer's instance\nProve the value you deliver by instrumenting deployments, measuring outcomes against the customer's baseline, and presenting the evidence credibly to operational users and executives alike\nOwn the technical customer relationship, learning their operations deeply enough to challenge requirements and become their first call when a new problem appears\nFeed the product by capturing gaps and use cases from the field and prototyping solutions that can graduate into the RELEX roadmap\nBuild customer self-sufficiency through knowledge transfer and clean handovers, so they can operate and extend RELEX without you\nGrow the account by surfacing adjacent use cases, new sites and unused capabilities, and shaping the technical solution and value case together with pre-sales and the account team\nSupport commercial activity with feasibility assessments, proofs of concept and technical demos, so what gets agreed is technically grounded \nWhat you'll bring to the table \nProven experience designing and building scalable data pipelines for large-scale data processing in production\nStrong understanding of data modeling, observability, and hypothesis-driven development\nExperience building integrations for downstream or customer-facing systems\nSolid working knowledge of cloud platforms, and modern data stacks\nStrong business acumen: you can translate technical work into measurable financial impact and communicate it clearly to a non-technical audience\nComfortable managing ambiguity and taking full ownership of outcomes\nWillingness to travel and to work on-site at customer locations for parts of an engagement\nComfortable using AI in your everyday work and developing AI tool adoption as an organizational strategy\nNice to have: exposure to retail, merchandising, or pricing and promotions. More important, you learn a new domain and a new codebase fast, and you're comfortable being productive before you feel fully up to speed \nWhere this role can go \nAs the US Merchandising business grows, so does this role. The natural path is to become the senior scientific voice for the region, shaping what the central team builds and how it lands with US customers. \nWhat we offer \nFlexibility in how and where you work\nRoom to grow in a fast-moving global company with a strong market position\nPractical benefits supporting work, family, wellness, and everyday life\nOwnership, autonomy, and flat hierarchies\nWork that meaningfully reduces waste and improves sustainability\nA diverse, inclusive, and supportive work culture\nTwo paid volunteering days each year \nWe are a global community of different cultures, voices, and experiences. We celebrate what makes us unique and connect through what we share, in an authentic and safe environment. Together we shape the future, and each other. \nPlease note that to be considered for this position, you must be fluent in English, be based in the U.S. and hold a valid work permit for said country. 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