Axion Ray
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
$220K–$270K
New York, NY +1 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
San Francisco, CA - Experience
- No specific number of years stated; either prior FDE/customer-facing software engineering ownership from discovery through deployment, or strong software engineering experience ready for more customer exposure. The latter path particularly values manufacturing or industrial workflow experience.
About the job
Builds and deploys customer-specific software solutions for manufacturing workflows, from scoping and integration through validation, production ownership, and reusable engineering practices.
What you'll do
- Work with customer teams to identify and scope valuable use cases, define acceptance criteria, and plan delivery.
- Build, test, deploy, and maintain integrations, applications, APIs, business logic, and AI-enabled workflows.
- Validate solutions with users, monitor deployments, resolve issues, and partner with account, Product, and Engineering teams to scale successful patterns.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of personally shipping and maintaining production software.
- Ability to work independently across backend/application logic, data models, APIs, testing, and debugging.
- Experience translating ambiguous customer problems into useful solutions and communicating with technical and nontechnical colleagues.
Nice to have
- Python and SQL; full-stack development with TypeScript/React or comparable tools; enterprise data and API integrations; applied AI or agent workflows with rigorous evaluation.
- Experience in manufacturing, quality, reliability, supply-chain, or service operations.
Pay
$220K – $270K USD base salary
Tools
Python, SQL, TypeScript, React
AI focus
Build AI-enabled workflows where useful and evaluate model behavior; use deterministic software where correctness and repeatability require it.
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