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# Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** Hadrian Automation
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $120,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Github, Design of User Interfaces, Backend, OPUS (Software)
- **Published:** July 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=27cea279ee6238ab

## About the Role

* Strong builder with high ownership - comfortable going 0 to 1 and shipping in ambiguous environments where no one hands you the spec.
 * AI-native, and relentless about it. We're looking for ridiculously high-pace, high-agency engineers who use AI to compress everything - discovery, prototyping, execution. You can show us concretely how AI already makes you multiples faster, and you're hungry to push it further.
 * Comfortable across the whole stack - everything from UI/UX work to designing backend systems, reaching for whatever technology best fits the problem rather than defaulting to what you know.
 * Strong product instincts. You think about what to build, not just how to build it.
 * Experience working directly with customers or end users, translating ambiguous needs into concrete, shipped solutions.
 * Communication range. You can engage operators and program managers on the factory floor and senior program stakeholders in the same week, and translate complex technical constraints into terms that drive non-technical decisions.
 * Driven by the mission and the tempo. You get energized by the impact you're having on the programs you work on, and you care deeply about delivering at the pace our customers need.

What Will Set You Apart

 * Founder or founding-engineer experience - you've taken a new product zero to one.
 * Prior forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or technical consulting experience - you've built directly against messy customer reality before.
 * Domain background in aerospace, defense, or manufacturing - or anywhere hardware and software have to meet.
 * A visible body of work - a strong GitHub presence or a portfolio of projects you've shipped outside of work.

## Description

Forward Deployed Engineers embed on enterprise customer programs and do whatever it takes to make them succeed.

Sometimes that means providing connective tissue: configuring and integrating Opus, Hadrian's software and robotics platform, for the specific needs of a program. Just as often it means building new products at the edge, including ones the customer didn't know to ask for. You'll drive the full loop from discovery to deployment, with no layers between you and the customer.


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