Forward Deployed Engineer

DEPARTMENT Engineering

LOCATION Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid)

TYPE Full time

REPORTS TO CTO

THE ROLE

Enterprises come to Blank Metal to get production AI live. That work is led by senior people who can sit across from a client's executives, diagnose the real problem, and then go build the thing that fixes it.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer you'll turn advisory conversations into shipped software, closing the gap between a promising demo and a system that runs in production, where most enterprise AI initiatives stall. You embed with a client, earn trust at the executive level, and stay hands-on from the first scoping session through the live deployment. You are equal parts technical leader and trusted advisor: you shape what gets built, you build it with a lean team of AI engineers, and you own whether it actually works in production.

The playbook for this practice is still being written, and you will write a lot of it: how we embed, how we prove value, and what we bring back from each engagement.

Forward deployed means what it says. Expect roughly 25 to 40% travel to client sites, h