Forward Deployed Engineer (SF)

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer with 3–5 years of experience to embed directly on customer factory floors — building tailor-made software solutions for the companies manufacturing rockets, nuclear reactors, eVTOLs, and autonomous vehicles. This is a rare blend of elite engineering and customer impact, where your code ships into some of the most exciting manufacturing environments on the planet.

What will you be doing?

- Deploy to customer sites (aerospace, defense, nuclear, robotics) to deeply understand their operations and build custom software solutions on top of First Resonance's ION platform

- Own complex database work — designing schemas, optimizing SQL queries, and building data models that power real-time factory operations

- Write full-stack production code (React/TypeScript frontend, Python backend, PostgreSQL) that feeds back into First Resonance's core codebase

- Build relationships with customer engineering and ops teams, acting as the technical point person during engagements

- Contribute to First Resonance's upcoming AI product, helping showcase and deploy it across customer factory floors

Key Requirements

- Strong database fundamentals — must be able to design complex schemas, optimize SQL queries, and think through data modeling problems (this is tested directly in the interview)

- 3+ years of full-stack engineering experience, with a clear backend/database lean (frontend-heavy engineers are not a strong fit)

- Either: (A) enterprise-facing software engineering experience (e.g., ERP, logistics/warehouse platforms, customer-deployed tools) OR (B) engineering experience at a manufacturing company (e.g., SpaceX, Relativity, Joby, Blue Origin)

- Strong communication skills and comfort building rapport with customers — this role is ~20% customer-facing

- Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder (ITAR compliance — no exceptions)