Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer, AI for Manufacturing

Dex; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Dex is building AI agents that automate strategic decisions in manufacturing operations and sits atop ERP systems. This founding role blends engineering with customer work as you translate customer challenges into product improvements and prototype solutions under leadership guidance.

You will own end-to-end implementations, from scoping to integration, directly collaborating with the CEO and CTO to productize deep operational knowledge and scale the product.

Qualifications

• At least two years of full-time professional experience and customer-facing work.
• Demonstrated ability to turn user problems into intuitive, performant features.
• Ability to write production-grade code and prototype features yourself.
• Systems thinking to design scalable processes in code and operations.
• Fluency in German is a plus given the current customer base.

Responsibilities

• 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 rollout; shape core product with leadership.

Skills

Customer-facing

Product architect mindset

Production coding

Systems thinking

German language

Job description

Dex is building AI agents that automate strategic decisions in manufacturing operations and sits atop ERP systems. This founding role blends engineering with customer work as you translate customer challenges into product improvements and prototype solutions under leadership guidance.

You will own end-to-end implementations, from scoping to integration, directly collaborating with the CEO and CTO to productize deep operational knowledge and scale the product.