Field Deployment Engineer
On-siteParis, Île-de-France, France
Paris, Île-de-France, FranceOn-siteFull TimeStartup
Full TimeStartup
Job Summary
Conduct site assessments, install and commission hardware and software systems, and resolve networking issues in austere field environments. Configure Linux-based systems, document deployment methodologies, and enable local teams through training and hands-on support. Interface with engineering teams to drive requirements, fixes, and updates based on recurring field findings. This engineer-level role requires dual hardware and software proficiency with high travel and extended on-site campaigns. Candidates must possess electromechanical aptitude, systems thinking, and a safety-critical mindset.
Required Qualifications
- 2–5 years of hands-on field or technical experience — field operations, systems integration, test, or manufacturing — with complex, integrated hardware/software systems
- Proven proficiency across both hardware and software deployment — comfortable assembling and connecting physical equipment and installing, configuring, and parameterising software
- Electromechanical aptitude: hardware assembly, electrical hookup, ability to read technical diagrams and schematics
- Networking fundamentals: connectivity setup and diagnostics
- Systems thinking: ability to reason across an integrated system of multiple subsystems, not a single component
- Ability to master a system as an expert user and to teach it — strong communication and coaching skills, comfortable training and enabling teams
- Field temperament: autonomous in austere environments, procedurally rigorous, strong safety mindset in safety-critical operational settings
- Comfortable with a high travel rate and extended on-site campaigns
- Proficiency in English is mandatory
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with complex hardware-software integrated systems
- Exposure to documenting or standardizing a deployment process for use beyond a single site
- Experience working across multiple sites or geographies
- Prior experience training or instructing end-users (train-the-trainer)
- additional languages relevant to the region of operations
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