Axion

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NY, Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

You will understand customer problems, decide what to build, and take solutions from initial idea to reliable deployment. This is a hands-on software engineering role involving coding, data work, designing integrations, and direct customer engagement.

What you will do

  • Identify valuable use cases by working with customer business and technical teams
  • Turn broad requests into focused scope, acceptance criteria, and delivery plans
  • Design and implement data integrations, business logic, APIs, applications, and AI-enabled workflows
  • Deliver usable software iteratively with tests and appropriate access controls
  • Reconcile outputs against source data and business rules
  • Evaluate model behavior when AI is part of the solution
  • Work with users to validate accuracy, usability, and business value
  • Monitor deployments and resolve issues
  • Partner with account teams to connect technical delivery to customer adoption
  • Help establish engineering practices and delivery standards for the FDE team

Required qualifications

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals
  • Track record of personally shipping and maintaining production software
  • Ability to work independently across backend/application logic, data models, APIs, testing, and debugging
  • Python and SQL
  • Full-stack application development with TypeScript/React or comparable tools
  • Enterprise data and API integrations
  • Applied AI or agent workflows with rigorous evaluation
  • Ability to communicate clearly with technical and nontechnical colleagues
  • Ability to operate in a small team without a fully specified backlog

Nice to have

  • Manufacturing, quality, reliability, supply-chain, or service operations experience

Benefits

  • Work with cutting-edge AI technology
  • Collaborative, mission-driven team
  • Supportive leadership
  • Generous time off
  • Competitive compensation
  • Equity
  • Benefits

About the company

Axion is a company transforming product quality and customer satisfaction in manufacturing through an AI-powered platform. It is backed by investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Amplo, Boeing, and RTX Ventures.