AI-Powered Forward Deployed Engineer — Operations
Listed on 2026-07-08
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Business
Operations Management
YOUR OPPORTUNITY
We have an exciting opportunity at Seaboard Foods as a Forward Deployed Engineer-Live Operations to support our Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) and Live Operations teams in our Merriam, KS office. The Forward Deployed Engineer-Live Operations a hands-on builder role focused on owning, maintaining, and improving the Foundry applications that support critical business operations. The primary responsibility is ensuring Live Operations and RNG applications are reliable, accurate, and delivering value to the business.
This includes troubleshooting issues, improving existing workflows, maintaining data models and ontology structures, and supporting users across operational teams.
YOUR OPPORTUNITY
We have an exciting opportunity at Seaboard Foods as a Forward Deployed Engineer-Live Operations to support our Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) and Live Operations teams in our Merriam, KS office. The Forward Deployed Engineer-Live Operations a hands-on builder role focused on owning, maintaining, and improving the Foundry applications that support critical business operations. The primary responsibility is ensuring Live Operations and RNG applications are reliable, accurate, and delivering value to the business.
This includes troubleshooting issues, improving existing workflows, maintaining data models and ontology structures, and supporting users across operational teams.
Working directly with business leaders and end users, you will identify opportunities to eliminate manual processes, automate repetitive work, and develop solutions that improve operational performance. You will build applications, workflows, dashboards, and AI-enabled tools that help teams make better decisions and execute more efficiently.
The role is embedded within Live Production, Renewable Natural Gas, Transportation, Feed Milling, and other operational functions, providing broad exposure to the business and opportunities to drive meaningful impact.
About Us
At Seaboard Foods, we create the most sought-after pork. As one of the nation’s leading pork producers and exporters, we are committed to producing high-quality food responsibly while connecting every step from our farms to family tables. More than 5,400 employees across five states support our farms, feed mills, and processing operations, helping deliver Prairie Fresh® pork to customers in more than 30 countries worldwide.
At Seaboard Foods, we value teamwork, integrity, safety, and continuous improvement. As a Fortune 500 employer and recent Business Journal “Best Places to Work” nominee, we are proud to foster a culture where employees can grow, contribute, and make a meaningful impact.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
This list is not intended to be all-inclusive, and other duties may be assigned.
Success in this role requires strong technical and problem-solving skills, a bias toward action, and the ability to quickly move from business problems to deployed solutions. Candidates should be comfortable using modern AI-assisted development tools to accelerate software development, testing, and deployment while maintaining high standards for reliability and business value.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
Primary
Support and update existing Foundry applications across the entire Live/RNG business, these applications are mission critical and
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