Forward Deployed Engineer

Ascentis Technologies; Toulouse; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Sparengine in Toulouse is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge client aircraft data into a reliable, field-ready pipeline. You will onboard diverse data, adapt the pipeline and validate outputs with aviation domain reviewers, while communicating with clients and the product team.

You will write Python scripts and connectors, work on-site or remotely with clients, and help turn real-world problems into product improvements, ensuring accuracy and timely deliveries across Europe and the US.

Qualifications

• Strong Python and data engineering skills with real world data.
• Hands-on experience with AI pipelines (OCR, LLMs, extraction).
• Fluent professional English; French is a strong plus.
• Excellent interpersonal skills for client-facing work.
• High autonomy and ownership over projects.
• Aviation, MRO or technical records knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Onboard client aircraft data from any source through the Sparengine platform.
• Write scripts, connectors and configuration per project in Python.
• Run and validate deliveries for transitions, teardown and pre buy work.
• Collaborate with client technical teams on calls and on site.
• Turn recurring field problems into product improvements.
• Document built work to accelerate future projects.

Skills

Python

Data engineering

AI pipelines

English fluency

Client-facing

Tools

OCR

LLMs

Document extraction

Job description

You are the engineer who sits between Sparengine and its clients. You take a client's real aircraft data, in whatever shape it arrives, get it through the platform, and make sure what comes out is right. Strong Python and data skills, comfort with AI pipelines, fluent English and the ease to work directly with lessors, MROs and technical consultants. What you learn in the field goes straight back into the product.

Full Time | Toulouse / Remote | Forward Deployed Engineer

Company Overview

Sparengine is aircraft intelligence. It reconstructs the full history of an aircraft and its components, back to birth, from everything that exists about it: paper records, scanned logbooks, maintenance software exports, scattered spreadsheets, and data recovered directly from maintenance centers. Lessors, MROs, part out specialists and technical consultants rely on it for aircraft transitions, teardown projects and pre buy intelligence, where a missing trace has real financial and airworthiness consequences.

The Mission

No two aircraft arrive the same way. One client sends thousands of scanned pages, another an export from their maintenance tracking system, another a mix of both with spreadsheets nobody has opened in years. Your job is to take that reality and turn it into a delivery the client can trust: you onboard the data, adapt the pipeline to it, check the output against what an aviation records specialist expects, and close the gaps. You are the engineer clients talk to, and the one who tells the product team what actually breaks in the field.

Day to Day

• Onboard client aircraft data from any source and get it cleanly through the Sparengine platform
• Write the scripts, connectors and configuration each project needs, in Python
• Run and validate deliveries for transitions, teardown projects and pre buy work, working with the technical team and domain reviewers
• Work directly with client technical teams, on calls and on site, to scope projects and resolve issues
• Turn recurring field problems into product improvements, and push them into the core pipeline with the engineering team
• Document what you build so the next project starts faster

Profile Required

• Strong Python and data engineering skills; you are comfortable with messy, inconsistent real world data
• Hands on experience with AI pipelines (OCR, LLMs, document or data extraction), not just calling an API
• Fluent professional English, written and spoken (mandatory); French is a strong plus
• Excellent interpersonal skills: you are at ease in front of a client and can explain a technical result to a non technical audience
• High autonomy and ownership: you take a project from raw data to delivery without being walked through it
• A very high bar for accuracy, and the judgment to know when a result is not good enough yet
• Aviation, MRO or technical records knowledge is a plus, not a requirement

What We Offer

• A role at the meeting point of engineering, clients and product, with real influence on what gets built
• Direct exposure to lessors, MROs and technical consultants across Europe and the US
• Close work with the founder and the technical team, in a small, high trust team
• Based in Toulouse, with remote work and travel to clients when projects require it

Practical Details

Location: Toulouse / Remote

Compensation: Based on profile

Why Sparengine

You will see the hardest version of the problem first, on real aircraft with real stakes, and you will be the one who makes the product work there. Every project you deliver makes the platform better for the next client, and your work is visible to the people who depend on it being right.