Forward Deployed Engineer - US

The role

The Forward Deployed Engineer splits time 50/50 between engineering and customer interaction. You will lead full-stack rollouts, design the product backbone, and turn operations into product features.

What you will do

• Lead full-stack rollouts from scoping and onboarding to integration and training
• Align IT teams, engineers and C-level execs across Germany, the EU and the US
• Work hands-on with users to translate pain into product improvements
• Prototype features and write production code
• Turn deployment learnings into reusable product features, data models and playbooks

Required qualifications

• 2+ years in a top-tier role (e.g., consulting), as a founder, or as an early employee in a high-growth startup
• Technical degree or background
• Write production code
• Understand systems end-to-end
• Find root causes when things break at a customer
• Quality-obsessed
• Ultra-professional and detail-obsessed
• Crisis communicator
• Down-to-earth and relatable
• Ready to work onsite in San Francisco
• 10 to 30% travel

Nice to have

• Experience in manufacturing, industrial software, procurement, supply chain or another industrial domain

Before you apply

• We support visa

About the company

Dryft builds models that automate complex human decisions in manufacturing operations. The team includes graduates from Stanford, Berkeley, CDTM and TUM.