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Forward Deployed Engineer roles

Engineers who ship inside the customer’s own team. 8 open roles at 8 startups.

CarbonFarm

Satellites and AI verifying rice farming practices paddy by paddy, cutting methane up to 50%.

Climate & Energy · 2 roles picked

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Mistral AI

Open-weight frontier models, already trusted by 5 of the world's largest energy companies.

AI · 49 roles picked

Piston

An ERP rebuilt around AI agents, live in 2 to 6 weeks.

Business Software · 9 roles picked

Nativ

AI turning messy B2B orders into ERP-ready ones: 80% fewer errors at a €500M aerospace division.

AI · 2 roles picked

Isembard

Rebuilding Western manufacturing: factories in the UK, Germany and US on one software layer, with Anduril UK as a customer.

Industry & Robotics · 12 roles picked

Linkup

#1 on OpenAI's SimpleQA. Web search for AI used by McKinsey, SNCF and Cohere.

AI · 3 roles picked

Cognyx

AI agents taking on the bill of materials, manufacturing's biggest product development bottleneck.

Industry & Robotics · 4 roles picked

Raison

Teaching whole companies to master AI, right inside Teams, with measurable progress.

Education · 2 roles picked

All 8 roles

Forward Deployed EngineerDefine a new function: embed in factories 30-50% of the time and ship production code into MasonOS from London.London · On site · IsembardIsembardSeries ANetwork of software-driven factories for precision parts in aerospace and defence; backed by Union Square VenturesSee Isembard
AI Instructional DesignerSit inside corporate design partners to prove AI adoption, close to the founders. Field learnings become the product spec.Paris · On site · RaisonRaisonSeedAI agent inside work tools that trains employees to master AI, seed-stage and demo-readySee Raison
FDE, Forward Deployed EngineerAmong the first FDEs, reporting to the CEO and working with the CTO. Ship AI workflows on-site at manufacturers.CognyxCognyxPre-seedAI agents that build and optimize product bills of materials for manufacturers; backed by BpifranceSee Cognyx
Founding FDEFirst deployment hire. Wire Nativ into SAP S/4HANA at large European industrials and write the deployment playbook.Hybrid · NativNativPre-seedAI agents that turn messy B2B orders into ERP-ready transactions; backed by SerenaSee Nativ
Forward Deployed EngineerAdapt satellite and ML models to each carbon project, paired with Customer Success, in a 24-person team at Station F.Paris · CarbonFarmCarbonFarmSeries ASatellite and AI monitoring that certifies rice methane reduction projects at paddy level, Series A backed by BpifranceSee CarbonFarm
Founding Product, Forward DeployedSit in plants and warehouses, prototype the interface yourself, and ship it into the core codebase of an agentic ERP. €80-100k.Remote · PistonPistonSeedAI-native ERP for manufacturers and distributors, live in 2 to 6 weeks; seed backed by DaphniSee Piston
Forward Deployed EngineerFounding FDE team: wire search APIs into customers' agent systems, working directly with the founders.Paris · On site · LinkupLinkupPre-seedWeb search API that gives AI agents live internet access; used by McKinsey and SNCF, backed by SeedcampSee Linkup
Applied AI, Forward Deployed Machine Learning EngineerDeploy fine-tuned LLMs into production for enterprise clients, from pre-sales calls to shipped code, beside Mistral's researchers.London · On site · Mistral AIMistral AISeries COpen-weight frontier AI models companies run on their own servers; trusted by ASML, backed by Nvidia and MicrosoftSee Mistral AI