Forward Deployed Engineer, Data

The role

You will turn fragmented manufacturing data into production-grade data products and pipelines. You will work directly with customer data, manufacturing, and IT teams to design architecture, write production code, and launch deployed solutions.

What you will do

• Deliver customer data solutions end to end including discovery, architecture, implementation, and testing.
• Build reliable data pipelines using APIs, webhooks, event streams, batch workflows, and modern data tooling.
• Model complex manufacturing operations like parts, bills of materials, work orders, and inventory.
• Establish validation, observability, lineage, access controls, and incident-response practices.
• Convert successful customer work into reusable pipelines, semantic models, and platform improvements.
• Set expectations with technical and nontechnical stakeholders and manage risks and tradeoffs.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, analytics engineering, or another role building production data systems.
• Strong programming ability in Python.
• Fluency with SQL, data modeling, and software-engineering practices such as testing, version control, and code review.
• Experience building and operating data pipelines across APIs, transactional databases, event streams, object storage, and cloud data platforms.
• Sound judgment around distributed-system and data-quality failure modes.
• Ability to work directly with customers and turn ambiguous operational problems into clear technical plans.

Nice to have

• Experience with manufacturing, supply-chain, ERP, PLM, MES, quality, or industrial data.
• Experience with AWS and modern data technologies such as dbt, Airflow or Dagster, Kafka or similar event systems, and cloud warehouses or lakehouses.
• Experience designing metrics layers, analytical data products, or operational reporting used by frontline teams.
• Familiarity with enterprise security, regulated environments, air-gapped networks, or customer-managed infrastructure.
• Experience in a customer-facing technical role such as forward deployed engineering, solutions architecture, technical consulting, or implementation engineering.

Benefits

• Health Insurance; medical, vision, dental, & life insurance.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Employee Stock Option Plan.
• Team outings, group lunches, open office, happy hours.
• Paid holidays, sick days.
• Flexible Friday and PTO.
• 401K.

Before you apply

• First Resonance participates in E-Verify.
• A new hire's Form I-9 information will be shared with the federal government to confirm authorization to work in the U.S.

About the company

First Resonance builds the ION Factory OS to power next-generation manufacturing for companies building rockets, satellites, eVTOLs, clean energy systems, robotics, and autonomous vehicles. They are a group of software, hardware, and manufacturing engineers providing tools to manufacturing engineers and operators.