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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Forward Deployed Engineer - **Company:** AYAMA CORP - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Bug Tracking Systems, Cloud Computing, Computerized Maintenance Management Systems, Software Debugging, Django Web Framework, Python (Programming Language), Operational Data Store, Standard Sql, SQL Databases, Web Application Frameworks, Enterprise Software Applications, Flask (Web Framework), Fastapi - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/forward-deployed-engineer-ayama-ai-fund-8042814 ## About the Role * 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience * Daily Python fluency (Django/FastAPI preferred, transferable from Flask or other modern Python frameworks) * Strong SQL: joins, aggregations, window functions, and reading query plans * Track record of customer-facing engineering: deployments, integrations, or incident response with customers in the room * Comfort debugging production issues in code you didn't write * Direct, structured communication: you can write a clear bug report and explain a technical issue to a non-engineer * Cloud experience (GCP preferred) and at least one shipped integration with an enterprise system (ERP, CRM, CMMS, or similar), * Prior Forward Deployed Engineer, Implementation Engineer, or Solutions Engineer experience at enterprise or B2B SaaS companies * ERP / CMMS integration experience * Industrial or operations domain background: heavy assets, telemetry, asset management * Background in a physical-engineering discipline (mechanical, electrical, industrial) ## Description The Forward Deployed Engineer is customer-facing every day. You work with customer end users and customer IT teams primarily remotely, with periodic on-site visits to customer operational sites for deeper engagement, training, and incident response. This is a 100% hands-on role split between customer engagement and code. You write Python and SQL daily, debug across systems you didn't build, configure Ayama for each customer's operational reality, and translate field observations back into product decisions. This is a full-time hybrid role located in the Bay Area. Additional locations will be considered in the Western US as long as you live within 30 miles of a major airport with daily flights to San Francisco. Some travel to customer sites will be required. There is no relocation package budgeted for this role., * Own customer deployments end-to-end at the technical working level: daily operations, training, configuration, incident triage * Configure Ayama for new customers: enterprise system integrations, operational data mappings, asset hierarchy, customer-specific workflows * Debug customer-affecting issues end-to-end: read logs, trace through pipelines, patch in production, file precise root-cause reports for engineering * Scope and execute pilot deployments as Ayama brings on new customers * Translate field reality into structured product feedback that engineering can act on directly * Build customer-specific scripts, integration adapters, and small tools that don't belong in core product code ## Related Videos - [Intro to FastAPI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/462-intro-to-fastapi) - [How building an industry DBMS differs from building a research one](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/768-how-building-an-industry-dbms-differs-from-building-a-research-one) - [Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1146-fault-tolerance-and-consistency-at-scale-harnessing-the-power-of-distributed-sql-databases) - [Remote Driving on Plant Grounds with State-of-the-Art Cloud Technologies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/251-remote-driving-on-plant-grounds-with-state-of-the-art-cloud-technologies) - [Crypto-secure Data Management with In-Database Blockchain](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/632-crypto-secure-data-management-with-in-database-blockchain) - [Analytics in the Age of Agentic AI: A tour of ClickHouse and Langfuse](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100240-analytics-in-the-age-of-agentic-ai-a-tour-of-clickhouse-and-langfuse) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [The 7 Most Popular Backend Frameworks for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/403-the-7-most-popular-backend-frameworks-for-developers) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs)