Forward Deployed Engineer

Location: Seattle, WA or Chicago, IL — In Office
Compensation: $150,000–$225,000 base salary + equity
Travel: Travel to customer sites as needed

About the Opportunity

Our client is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join their fast-growing technology company building AI-powered software for complex manufacturing and procurement environments.

This role combines software engineering with direct customer engagement. You will work closely with customers across industries such as aerospace, defense, space, energy, and robotics to deploy and integrate a sophisticated procurement platform into their existing technology environments.

You will own technical deployments from implementation through go-live, working directly with customer stakeholders while also writing production code, building integrations, troubleshooting APIs and data flows, and partnering closely with product and engineering teams.

This opportunity is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving ambiguous real-world problems, working directly with customers, and seeing their technical work deployed into complex operational environments.

What You'll Do

• Own technical customer deployments from kickoff and discovery through data migration, configuration, integration, and go-live.
• Build and support integrations between the platform and customer ERP, PLM, MES, and other enterprise systems.
• Write