Hiring: Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (up to $220k) Company: Dex Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 04:17:30 Employment Type: Full-time About the job Required Skills: •Translate complex manufacturing operational problems into product features. •Prototype and write production-grade code to implement new features and fixes. •Own customer implementations end-to-end: scoping, onboarding, integration, and training. •Extract reusable features, data models, and playbooks from each customer rollout, directly shaping the core product with leadership. Qualifications: •At least two years of full-time professional experience; you'll be customer-facing from day one. •A product architect mindset: you turn complex user frustrations into intuitive, performant features. •Demonstrated capacity to write production code and prototype features yourself, not just hand off specs. •Systems thinking: you design scalable processes in code, operations, and human workflows, defaulting to data and automation. •Fluency in German is a significant advantage, given the current customer base. •This is a founding, high-impact role in a competitive market. Dex helps you cut through the noise: sign up once, get matched to this rare opportunity and others like it, and skip the cold application process. We'll brief you thoroughly, ensuring you understand the full context before you even speak to the client. •If you're interested, sign up to Dex to apply - https://jobs.meetdex.ai/jobs/4b7aa3fc-a200-42a6-9f07-6346f83e88bb •As part of the recruitment process at Dex, we process your personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice for Job Applicants. This notice explains how and why your data is collected and used, and how you can contact us if you have any concerns. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!