Head of Forward Deployed Engineering

The role

You will lead the team that integrates Flow into customer engineering stacks and builds AI workflows. You will drive product adoption and account expansion within aerospace, defense, automotive, and hardware companies.

What you will do

• Build and lead the forward deployed engineering function.
• Own customer integrations end to end with PLM, ALM, CAD, simulation, and issue tracking tools.
• Design and deploy AI workflows tailored to customer requirements.
• Own product growth and usage within accounts.
• Own customer expansion by partnering with account executives.
• Convert sales engineer pilots into successful production deployments.
• Feed field learnings back to product and engineering to influence the roadmap.
• Write code, build integrations, and sit with customer engineers.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, software engineering, or a technical customer-facing role.
• 2+ years leading a team.
• Strong technical foundation in building integrations, APIs, and data models.
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs or deploying AI-driven workflows in production.
• Track record of driving adoption and expanding accounts.
• Comfortable operating across a customer organization from engineers to VPs.
• Able to build a function from an early stage.
• Comfortable in a fast-moving environment.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with requirements, systems engineering, PLM, or ALM tooling (Jama, DOORS, etc.)
• Background in or working with defense, aerospace, or regulated hardware environments.
• Experience with security and compliance requirements common in these industries (ITAR, CMMC, on-prem or restricted deployments).

About the company

Flow Engineering is an AI-native requirements platform for modern engineering organizations. It enables hardware teams to collaborate with AI agents to design, validate, and evolve complex systems.