Senior Embedded Production Engineer — Customer-Facing

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 194,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Commuter Benefits

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to join our team and operate at the intersection of product engineering and customer impact. You will be embedded with a strategic global customer, writing production code, shaping architecture, and influencing how our platform is used at scale.

You will act as a technical extension of both organizations, helping the customer ship faster while surfacing insights back to our engineering.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Own mission-critical services with real-world users and on-call readiness.
• Ship-first mentality with high velocity and modern framework knowledge.
• Fluency across frontend, backend, database, and distributed infrastructure.
• Experience integrating AI-augmented workflows into development cycles.
• Ability to decompose business requirements into scalable architectures.
• Deep cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and security basics.

Responsibilities

• Stay deeply technical and work on production systems.
• Write production code and deploy within customer infrastructure.
• Own technical success across the customer account.
• Participate in customer engineering rituals and incident response.
• Accelerate platform adoption and surface real-world feedback.
• Engage senior leadership and manage strategic relationships.

Skills

Software engineering

Production ownership

Full-stack depth

AI-native development

Systems design

Cloud proficiency

Executive presence

Tools

Windsurf

OpenCode

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to join our team and operate at the intersection of product engineering and customer impact. You will be embedded with a strategic global customer, writing production code, shaping architecture, and influencing how our platform is used at scale.

You will act as a technical extension of both organizations, helping the customer ship faster while surfacing insights back to our engineering.