Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

The Forward Deployed Engineer will be embedded with a harness manufacturing plant to support Cadonix's manufacturing software. They will resolve local issues, build AWS cloud tools, and act as a liaison between the plant and the development team.

What you will do

• Act as the first point of contact for smartBuild at the plant.
• Triage, diagnose and resolve issues with software, configuration, data, integrations and connected shop-floor hardware.
• Work with remote Product, Development and QA teams.
• Capture feature improvements and modification requests from plant collaborators.
• Support user acceptance testing on site.
• Develop and maintain scripts, integrations, reports and small tools on AWS.
• Bring up defects to the development team with reproducible steps and logs.
• Track issues through to resolution and lead root-cause analysis.
• Train and support operators, supervisors and engineers on the system.
• Maintain site-specific procedures, runbooks and a knowledge base.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical or Manufacturing Engineering, or equivalent experience combined with education.
• 3–5 years’ experience in software development, support or implementation
• Understanding of production environments and shop-floor workflows.
• Experience engaging directly with customers
• Hands-on experience building and deploying applications on AWS (e.g. Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, API Gateway, CloudWatch, IAM).
• Proficient in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript or C#
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases, Windows and Linux environments, and web-based applications and APIs.
• Familiar with Git, CI/CD and infrastructure as code.

Benefits

• Every employee of Re:Build will share ownership in the company
• Share in the financial rewards of the success achieved together

About the company

Re:Build operates an advanced, end-to-end manufacturing platform that partners with industrial companies and innovators. Their mission is to ensure the next generation of important products are made, at scale, in America.