Manufacturing OS platform for hardware makers in aerospace, defense, and robotics
Forward Deployed Engineer
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You'll embed with customers across greater Los Angeles — aerospace machine shops, robotics assembly lines, defense contractors — and make their factory data actually usable. Some days you're writing Python scripts to migrate legacy part histories into a modern PostgreSQL backbone; other days you're pair-programming in React and TypeScript to extend the platform for a customer's unique assembly workflow. You'll ship code that runs on AWS infrastructure, then walk the production floor to watch it catch a defect that would've cost six figures. This is engineering with your boots on: half IDE, half factory floor.
What they're looking for
- 3+ years shipping production code, with substantial Python and at least one modern JavaScript framework
- Experience working directly with technical customers or in a solutions engineering, forward deployed, or field engineering capacity
- Comfort with SQL and relational data modeling; bonus points for manufacturing or IoT data experience
- Willingness to work hybrid in Los Angeles, with regular travel to customer sites across the metro
- U.S. person status or ability to obtain security clearance, given defense and aerospace customer base