Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

Description

The Mission\ \ America's industrial base runs on systems built in the 1980s.\ \ Billions of dollars in critical components (F-35 parts, industrial assemblies, electronics, bolts, and hoses) still move through email threads, excel sheets, and disconnected ERPs.\ \ We're replacing that with an AI-native platform that makes aerospace, electronics, industrial, and defense supply-chain operations nearly autonomous. Faster quoting. Faster procurement. Full visibility. Fly out and plant yourself inside the customer's operation. Weekdays are onsite (Wisconsin, New York, Miami, Los Angeles); weekends we regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building.\ \ Understand. Map how the company actually operates, from sales and supply chain teams to executives and CEOs. Learn the breakpoints choking their growth and speed.\ \ Implement. Configure automations within SP Studio tooling so the platform accurately reflects the customer's needs. Build trust and confidence in the company.\ \ Iterate. Take full ownership of the customer's outcome. Keep finding and killing their most pressing problems, leading org-wide scaling, until the company is the operating system their business runs on.\ \ What We’re Looking For\ \ Experience mentoring junior engineers or leading technical teams.\ \ Ready to relocate full-time to San Francisco. This is not a remote role.\ \ Absolute grinder. Interested in co-living (though not required).\ \ Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change.\ \ Track record of shipping fast.\ \ Full-stack beyond code: comfortable jumping between frontend, backend, and organizational politics — earning trust with procurement specialists while navigating executive priorities and IT constraints.\ \ Motivated by taking an unknown problem, sinking your teeth in, and coming up with a plan of attack.\ \ Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, and at least one frontend library (React, Svelte, Next etc).\ \ Be ready to show us at least one full-stack project you've shipped (GitHub repo / web app / Loom demo video).\ \ Knowledge of SQL databases, preferably Postgres.\ \ Personable: clients trust you, like you, and look forward to your updates. You handle the conversation and the code.\ \ Low ego, curiosity, and intellectual honesty — focused on outcomes, not "being right."\ \ The Process\ \ Call with engineer → 1hr technical test → Call with founder → fly out to SF HQ (on us) → offer.

Experience: Any (new grads ok)

Visa: US citizen/visa only