Head of Forward Deployed Engineering

About Circuit

Circuit is the AI execution layer for the physical economy.

Industrial and manufacturing enterprises run on expertise: the hard-won knowledge of how complex products are engineered, configured, sold, and supported. That expertise is scarce, slow to transfer, and walking out the door as a generation of experts retires. It lives in PDFs, spreadsheets, and the heads of a few people, and the hardest technical decisions wait on whoever happens to know.

Circuit puts expert judgment in everyone's hands. We capture how the best people make critical technical decisions and turn it into agents that do the judgment-heavy work, so anyone, regardless of skill level, can make the right call, from quote to install and support, with the accuracy these environments demand.

Circuit is built by operators. Our leadership team has built and scaled real industrial companies, and we are already live in production with category-leading manufacturers. We are not bolting AI onto an old playbook. We are building the layer that runs the last mile of how the physical economy executes.

As Head of Forward Deployed Engineering, you own the technical win and the deployment that proves it. Forward Deployed Engineers are how Circuit shows up in the field: embedded with customers, building on the platform with real data, and carrying solutions from first demo through live production and measurable outcomes. You lead that team, own how Circuit is sold into technical and industrial buyers, and help set the standard for how Circuit is deployed, working alongside Engineering and Customer Success in a shared deployment and handoff motion.

This is a player-coach role: part team builder, part principal FDE on the accounts that matter most. It is also a hybrid seat by design: at our stage, the person who wins the technical evaluation should be the same person who makes the deployment real, and this role carries both.

This is a deeply technical seat. You will be hands-on with the product, building in Circuit, configuring environments, working with real manufacturing documents, and designing the agentic workflows that solve a customer's hardest problems. You are the person who makes the platform real in the room and holds up under scrutiny from a customer's most technical stakeholders, while developing the team so it wins without you in every room.

Productization is the name of the game. FDEs at Circuit innovate at the edge, taking on new and novel use cases in the field, then work methodically to turn what they learn into repeatable product motions and scalable engineering deployments. The best FDEs design themselves out of the processes they build, so the team is always freed up to push into the next frontier use case rather than maintaining the last one.

This role reports to the Co-Founder and CPRO.

• Lead, coach, and develop the Forward Deployed Engineering team, raising the technical bar so every FDE can architect agentic solutions and translate Circuit into a customer's specific workflow, outcomes, and ROI. Hire to grow the team when needed.

• Build the FDE playbook end to end, from technical discovery and qualification through solution design, POC, pilot, and production deployment.

• Develop reusable demo templates, solution patterns, and example datasets that scale the team's output.

• Partner with Account Executives on the most strategic and complex deals, owning the technical win from first demo through pilot, close, and go-live.

• Lead deep technical discovery across data, documents, workflows, and integrations, and deliver high-impact demos tailored to customer workflows and industry use cases.

• Architect, configure, and deploy agentic workflows, embedding with customers and their subject matter experts to prove out measurable outcomes in POCs, pilots, and production.

• Serve as the credible technical authority on architecture, integrations, AI capabilities, permissions, security, and deployment.

• Drive the edge-to-product flywheel: pioneer new use cases in the field, then work with Product and Engineering to turn them into repeatable, productized…