Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will deliver CurieOS into customer environments by writing production code, designing architectures, and building integrations. You will embed with customer teams to translate ambiguous R&D problems into working systems.

What you will do

• Deliver complex customer deployments hands-on
• Write production code, design architectures, build integrations and debug issues
• Design and build systems connecting software, data and physical infrastructure
• Embed with customer teams to understand R&D problems
• Translate problems into technical approach, milestones and acceptance criteria
• Build evaluation loops with customer scientists and engineers
• Own engagement from technical discovery through implementation and production deployment
• Track KPIs per engagement and communicate progress to stakeholders
• Upskill across unfamiliar scientific and engineering domains
• Codify successful approaches into reusable integration patterns and tooling

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Track record of independently building, shipping and operating production software
• Track record of succeeding in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Ability to move between customer conversations and deep technical implementation work
• Experience deploying software into complex production environments
• Genuine interest in building software that enables breakthrough scientific and industrial applications

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.