Senior Forward Deployed Software Engineer
RemoteUnited States or New York City, New York, United States
United States or New York City, New York, United StatesRemoteFull TimeSenior LevelSmall
Full TimeSenior LevelSmall
Job Summary
Work directly with customers to understand engineering challenges, build rapid prototypes, and iterate toward production-ready applications using Python, FastAPI, and microservices. Deploy and operate solutions via Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform on AWS while collaborating with data scientists to integrate advanced physics models. Identify reusable components and contribute improvements to the core platform. This hands-on, customer-facing role requires strong problem-solving skills in ambiguous environments and excellent communication for shaping impactful software solutions.
Required Qualifications
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Experience delivering applications to production
- Strong experience with Python
- Backend development
- REST APIs
- Microservices
- Experience with FastAPI or similar Python frameworks
- Hands-on experience with Docker
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
- Hands-on experience with Helm
- Hands-on experience with Terraform
- Experience working with AWS
- Ability to take ownership of complex problems
- Drive solutions end-to-end
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous environments
- Excellent communication skills
- Confidence working directly with customers
- Background check
Desired Qualifications
- Background in Mechanical Engineering
- Background in Physics
- Background in Aerospace
- Another engineering discipline
- Experience with scientific computing
- Experience with machine learning
- Experience with simulation
- Experience with physics-based applications
- Experience in a customer-facing role
- Experience in a solutions engineering role
- Experience in a forward-deployed role
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