Forward Deployed Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of AI deployment for manufacturing clients, from scoping and integration to production hardening and handover.
• Embed with customer operations and IT teams, serving as the main technical advisor and point of contact.
• Integrate AI vision systems with OT/IT/cloud stacks, including OPC-UA/Modbus/PLCs, NVIDIA Jetson edge inference, ERP, and customer cloud platforms.
• Build and iterate data pipelines and customer-side data flywheels, covering edge-to-cloud capture, model deployment, monitoring, and feedback loops.
• Troubleshoot software, networking, and integration issues in live production environments.
• Document architectures and configurations, producing formal handover artifacts for long-term support.
• Train customer operators and engineers in both French and English to ensure successful adoption and operation of deployed systems.
• Participate in pre-sales scoping calls and contribute field learnings to the product and engineering roadmap, helping shape reusable deployment patterns and internal tooling.
• Support on-site data collection and annotation as needed.

• 6+ years of experience combining production software engineering with industrial automation and/or applied AI.
• Proven experience shipping and supporting production software systems deployed into customer infrastructure.
• Production Python development experience with hands‑on use of Linux, Docker, and Git in production environments.
• Cloud deployment and operations experience with at least one major platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Hands‑on experience with at least one of: OPC‑UA/Modbus/PLC integration, NVIDIA Jetson (or equivalent) edge platforms, or GenICam/industrial vision systems.
• Networking fundamentals for industrial deployments, including TCP/IP, VLANs, and firewalls.
• Experience in a customer‑facing engineering role as the primary technical contact for external stakeholders.
• Professional working proficiency in English.

• Professional experience working in industrial automation or manufacturing environments involving OT/IT integration.