Forward Deployed Engineering Lead

The role

You will build and lead the Forward Deployed Engineering function, owning technical standards, delivery models, and the team. You will deliver complex deployments hands-on while hiring and developing engineers to scale capability across the customer base.

What you will do

• Deliver deployments hands-on across industrial R&D
• Drive customer adoption of CurieOS
• Write production code, design architectures, build integrations and debug issues
• Own technical quality of deployments from prototype through production
• Design and build systems connecting software, data and physical infrastructure
• Develop reusable integration patterns
• Embed with customer teams to identify R&D problems
• Translate problems into technical approaches, milestones and acceptance criteria
• Own engagements from technical discovery through implementation and adoption
• Build, hire, and manage the Forward Deployed Engineering team

Required qualifications

• Significant experience in enterprise software technical delivery or forward deployed engineering roles
• Experience leading complex deployments and writing production code alongside customers
• Experience building a forward deployed engineering or solutions function, hiring the team, setting standards and defining the delivery model
• Ability to move between strategy conversations and debugging sessions
• Track record of succeeding in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Strong software engineering fundamentals

About the company

Orbital Industries is an AI Industrial company with frontier AI embedded in the production of critical physical products. They use CurieOS, an AI operating system, to unite AI-automated hardware engineering with AI-designed material science.