Forward Deployed Engineer

ReN3; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Direct client deployments

High autonomy

Close collaboration with founding team

Job summary

ReN3 is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge the core product and production deployment within a client's environment, including air-gapped infrastructure with no outbound internet. You will own complex integrations, troubleshoot live deployments, and communicate technical solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

You will work directly with client teams on-site, solving real-world problems, and guiding solutions from design through deployment in demanding

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent.
• Minimum 5+ years of AI and software engineering experience.
• Strong backend skills in Node.js or Python and microservices architecture.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and operate ReN3's platform inside client environments including air-gapped setups.
• Build and maintain backend services that integrate with client systems and data sources.
• Design and troubleshoot event-driven, microservices-based integrations with queues and pub/sub patterns.
• On-site collaboration with client IT teams to gather requirements and iterate fixes in near real time.
• Feed field learnings back into the core product roadmap.
• Maintain security and compliance discipline for sovereign deployments.

Skills

Node.js

Python

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

Distributed systems debugging

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

NATS

Job description

About ReN3

ReN3 is a sovereign AI platform for the enterprise, built to unify an organization's knowledge and let teams execute AI-powered work under strict governance and access control. The platform runs in air-gapped, private-cloud, or other sovereign environments, so sensitive data never leaves the client's own infrastructure. ReN3 works with government, banking and financial services, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, and construction clients, and partners with major infrastructure and cloud providers on deployment.

About the Role

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our ReN3 Software Engineering & Development team. You will own the last mile between ReN3's core product and a working, production-grade deployment inside the client's environment — including fully air-gapped, network-isolated infrastructure with no outbound internet. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role for someone who thrives on solving complex technical challenges, working directly with clients to address real-world problems, and taking solutions from initial design through to live deployment. You’ll be expected to work independently in demanding environments, troubleshoot issues effectively, and communicate technical solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and operate ReN3's platform inside client environments — including fully air-gapped, network-isolated infrastructure with no outbound internet
• Build and maintain backend services (Node.js or Python) that integrate ReN3's core product with client-specific systems, data sources, and workflows
• Design and troubleshoot event-driven, microservices-based integrations — message queues, service-to-service contracts, async workflows, failure handling
• Work directly with client engineering/IT teams on-site to unblock integration issues, gather requirements, and iterate on fixes in near real time
• Feed field learnings back into the core product roadmap
• Maintain security and compliance discipline appropriate to sovereign/regulated deployments

What We're Looking For

Must-have

• Singapore Citizen or Permanent Resident (Category 1 clearance required)
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in AI and Software Engineering
• Bachelor's Degree required
• Strong backend engineering skills in Node.js or Python
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture — service boundaries, API design, inter-service communication, versioning/deprecation strategy
• Practical experience with event-driven architecture (EDA) — message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, or similar), pub/sub patterns, eventual consistency, idempotency, retry/backoff design
• Comfortable debugging distributed systems with limited tooling and limited/no internet access
• Strong communication skills — able to work directly with client technical staff and translate ambiguous requirements into working systems

Nice-to-have

• Kubernetes (K8s) experience — deploying, operating, and troubleshooting workloads in a cluster, ideally in constrained or offline registries
• Prior experience deploying software into air-gapped or highly regulated environments (defence, government, finance, critical infrastructure)
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, or equivalent) adapted for disconnected environments
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm) for repeatable offline deployments

What You'll Get

• Direct ownership of deployments that matter — sovereign AI infrastructure for real enterprise/government clients.
• High autonomy, trust and variance work — every deployment environment is different.
• Close collaboration with ReN3's founding team on product direction shaped by real field feedback