Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 31, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 29, 2026.
About the Role
Join an early-stage AI company building software for procurement and supply chain operations. You will work directly with manufacturing customers to deploy AI-powered workflows, ship production code, and help shape a repeatable deployment approach.
What You'll Do
Work with customer IT, supply chain, and procurement teams to identify and scope new workflows and use cases.
Build and ship production code in customer environments, extending solutions in ways that can serve the broader customer base.
Lead technical deployments from discovery through go-live and take ownership of operational outcomes.
Travel to customer facilities, including internationally, to work alongside operators and support adoption.
Bring lessons from customer deployments back to platform engineering to improve future implementations.
What We're Looking For
One to five years of experience in customer-facing full-stack or forward-deployed engineering, with a strong software engineering foundation.
Experience scoping end-to-end workflow or automation deployments, gathering requirements, and shipping solutions into production customer environments.
Proficiency with Python or a similar programming language, SQL, APIs, and messy enterprise data; familiarity with ERP systems, LLMs, AI agents, or supply chain platforms is useful.
Ability to translate ambiguous problems into technical specifications, identify new use cases, and own customer relationships and production outcomes.
Comfort working independently in an early-stage environment with limited process, and willingness to travel internationally about 15% to 30% of the time.
Strong computer science fundamentals and interest or experience in manufacturing, industrial, or supply chain environments.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $175,000 to $255,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. Equity and other benefits were not specified.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week.