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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - **Company:** AXION - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $220,000.0 - $270,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Business Logic, Code Review, Data Integration, Software Debugging, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, SQL Databases, TypeScript, Enterprise Data Management, ReactJS, Backend, Build Management, Software Usability, Api Management - **Published:** October 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d730031896cda073 ## About the Role * Engineering. Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of personally shipping and maintaining production software. You can work independently across backend/application logic, data models, APIs, testing, and debugging. You're comfortable reasoning about reliability, permissions, failure cases, and the tradeoffs between a fast first release and a maintainable system. + Useful experience. Python and SQL; full-stack application development with TypeScript/React or comparable tools; enterprise data and API integrations; applied AI or agent workflows with rigorous evaluation; and manufacturing, quality, reliability, supply-chain, or service operations. You do not need every item on this list. Strong engineering judgment and demonstrated delivery are more important than familiarity with a particular framework. * Customer ownership. You enjoy understanding how people work and translating an ambiguous problem into a useful solution. You communicate clearly with technical and nontechnical colleagues, take responsibility for outcomes, and can push back constructively when a request is not the right thing to build. You're comfortable operating in a small team without waiting for a fully specified backlog. ## Description We're building our first Forward Deployed Engineering team to turn those opportunities into software customers use. You'll be one of the first two engineers shaping the function, with the responsibility to understand a customer's problem, decide what is worth building, and take the solution from an initial idea to a reliable deployment. This is a hands-on software engineering role. You will write and review code, work through messy data, design integrations and applications, and own how your software behaves after release. You'll also spend time with customers: asking questions, observing workflows, explaining tradeoffs, and testing whether what you've built actually solves the problem. You'll report to our Head of Strategic Accounts and work alongside our account-facing Solutions Directors, and have a dotted-line relationship with Engineering. You'll combine direct customer engagement with substantial hands-on build time. The role is based in New York or San Francisco with 25-50% travel. Two paths into the role. You may have already worked as an FDE or customer-facing software engineer, with real ownership from discovery through deployment. You may also be a strong software engineer ready for more customer exposure. For that second path, meaningful manufacturing or industrial workflow experience is particularly important. We care more about what you've built and owned than whether you've held the FDE title., * Understand and scope. Work directly with customer business and technical teams to identify a valuable use case. Turn broad requests into a focused scope, clear acceptance criteria, and a practical delivery plan. Know when existing Axion capabilities are sufficient, when new software is needed, and when a request should be narrowed or declined. * Build and deploy. Design and implement the data integrations, business logic, APIs, applications, and AI-enabled workflows needed for the solution. Deliver usable software iteratively, with tests, clear interfaces, appropriate access controls, and a deployment approach agreed with Engineering. Use AI where it helps; use deterministic software where correctness and repeatability call for it. * Validate and own. Reconcile outputs against source data and agreed business rules. Evaluate model behavior when AI is part of the solution. Work with users to validate accuracy, usability, and business value. Monitor deployments, resolve issues, document how the system works, and establish a clear ongoing support model. * Help the work scale. Partner with account teams to connect technical delivery to customer adoption and new use cases. Work with Product and Engineering to identify patterns worth reusing, rather than creating a separate product for every customer. Help establish the engineering practices, delivery standards, and working relationships for the FDE team., You're a builder and operator who thrives in fast-moving, high-accountability environments. You take pride in getting things done - thoughtfully, efficiently, and without drama. You're energized by ambiguity, skilled at bringing clarity, and comfortable flexing between strategy and execution. You value feedback - giving it, receiving it, and acting on it - and you see collaboration as a competitive advantage, not a burden. You're low-ego but high-agency: you care about winning as a team more than being right individually. You move quickly, communicate directly, and make decisions grounded in impact and data. You don't need constant direction - you create momentum. You take ownership for outcomes, and you expect the same from those around you.