Forward Deployed Engineer – Advanced Manufacturing

In this position, you will work at the intersection of software engineering, manufacturing operations, industrial data, cybersecurity, and business impact as a Forward Deployed Engineer. You will design, build, integrate, and deploy software systems that connect automated equipment, sensors, and cloud platforms to improve manufacturing operations.

Responsibilities:

• Build the Manufacturing Edge: Design, develop, and deploy software systems that connect automated equipment, sensors, PLC-adjacent data, MES workflows, quality systems, warehouse systems, and cloud platforms.
• Own Industrial Data Flows: Work with and design IIoT architectures, MQTT messaging primarily, OPC-UA connectivity, edge gateways, time-series data, event-driven systems, and manufacturing data models.
• Embed on the Floor and Solve: Work directly with manufacturing operations, controls, maintenance, quality, process engineering, product, and business stakeholders to understand production problems firsthand.
• Deliver Manufacturing Analytics: Build analytics and operational intelligence capabilities for throughput, uptime, downtime, OEE, quality, scrap, traceability, cycle time, bottlenecks, energy usage, and launch readiness.
• Own Delivery End to End: Wear multiple hats across application engineering, cloud infrastructure, edge deployment, integrations, automation, observability, and production support.
• Build Fast Without Breaking the Plant: Move quickly from ambiguity to production-ready systems while respecting manufacturing realities.
• Engineer for Secure Operations: Design and operate solutions for highly secured manufacturing environments.
• Apply AI Where It Wins: Use generative AI, applied ML, anomaly detection, predictive analytics, intelligent automation, and AI-assisted development where they create measurable value.
• Uphold the Engineering Standard: Contribute high-quality design and code, participate in architecture and code reviews, define durable integration patterns for industrial systems.

Qualifications:

• Technical Depth: 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, manufacturing systems engineer, industrial software engineer, solutions engineer, or similar hands-on engineering role.
• Manufacturing and Industrial Systems Experience: Demonstrated experience working with manufacturing environments, automation systems, plant-floor data, MES integrations, industrial equipment, quality systems, maintenance workflows, or production operations.
• IIoT and Edge Connectivity: Hands-on familiarity with IIoT architectures, MQTT, OPC-UA, edge gateways, industrial protocols, event-driven architectures, time-series data, sensor data ingestion, and secure connectivity.
• Manufacturing Analytics: Ability to build or support analytics for OEE, throughput, downtime, cycle time, bottleneck detection, quality, scrap, traceability, energy consumption, and asset performance.
• Modern Stack Experience: Experience with Go, Python, TypeScript, API design, OpenShift, GCP, or comparable cloud platforms, containerized services, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, and secure production operations.
• Bias for Deployed Outcomes: A track record of taking ambiguous, high-stakes operational problems from first conversation to working software in production.
• Adaptability and Field Readiness: Comfortable working in fast-changing manufacturing environments, spending time onsite with operators and engineers, troubleshooting real systems.
• Communication and Influence: Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• High Autonomy, High Accountability: Comfortable operating with minimal process and significant latitude.

Benefits:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time