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Forward Deployed Engineer - US

Dryft· Deployment
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Forward Deployed Engineer splitting time 50/50 between engineering and customer interaction. Lead full-stack rollouts, design product backbone from customer feedback, and turn deployments into reusable features and playbooks. On-site role based in San Francisco with travel.

Responsibilities

  • Lead full-stack rollouts – own implementations end-to-end, from scoping and onboarding to integration and training, and align IT teams, engineers and C-level execs across Germany, the EU and the US
  • Design the product backbone – work hands-on with users, translate their pain into product improvements, and prototype features yourself, ideally writing production code when needed
  • Turn operations into product – every deployment becomes a blueprint for scale: you turn what you learned into reusable product features, data models and playbooks, and grow into roles like CPO or COO

Qualifications

  • Fast-paced experience – 2+ years in a top-tier role (e.g., consulting), as a founder, or as an early employee in a high-growth startup, with a technical degree or background
  • Engineer first – you write production code, understand systems end-to-end, and when something breaks at a customer, you find the root cause
  • Industrial background – experience in manufacturing, industrial software, procurement, supply chain or another industrial domain is a plus
  • Product-minded – you listen to ERP-related feedback and translate it into product features
  • Quality-obsessed – you hold yourself to a high bar, dive deep into problems, and care about getting it right
  • Ultra-professional & detail-obsessed – you earn trust with structure, polish, and docs so clean even a CTO stops asking questions
  • Crisis communicator – you calm impatient execs, win over skeptical IT leaders, and keep composure under pressure
  • Down-to-earth & relatable – you bond with shop-floor operators and boardroom execs, and will wear safety shoes
  • Relocation – onsite in San Francisco (visa supported) with 10 to 30% travel

Skills

Required:Full-stack developmentStakeholder managementProduct senseProblem solving under pressureCrisis communication
Last updated Oct 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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Intelligence that Runs Manufacturing Operations

Intelligence that Runs Manufacturing Operations. Dryft builds artificial intelligence that mimics, optimizes, and automates complex human decisions in manufacturing operations.

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