Senior Forward Deployed Engineer — Build & Deploy AI Solutions

Axion; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Generous time off

Benefits

Job summary

Axion is seeking a forward deployed engineer to join the first FDE team. You will understand customer problems, decide what to build, and guide the solution from idea to reliable deployment.

You will write and review code, design integrations, and own software behavior after release while engaging with customers to validate impact and trade-offs. This role is based in New York or San Francisco with 25–50% travel.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping production software and owning delivery across backend, data models, APIs, testing, and debugging.
• Strong engineering judgment and ability to ship independently with ownership from discovery to deployment.
• Experience with Python, SQL, enterprise data, API integrations, and applied AI or agent workflows; manufacturing/quality domain familiarity helpful.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer problems and scope valuable use cases with clear acceptance criteria and delivery plans.
• Build and deploy data integrations, business logic, APIs, applications, and AI-enabled workflows; ship iteratively with tests and proper interfaces.
• Validate outputs against data and rules; monitor deployments and establish a clear ongoing support model.

Skills

Python

SQL

TypeScript/React

APIs

AI workflows

Manufacturing domain

Engineering judgment

Tools

TypeScript

React

APIs

Data modeling

Job description

Axion is seeking a forward deployed engineer to join the first FDE team. You will understand customer problems, decide what to build, and guide the solution from idea to reliable deployment.

You will write and review code, design integrations, and own software behavior after release while engaging with customers to validate impact and trade-offs. This role is based in New York or San Francisco with 25–50% travel.