Forward Deployed Engineer - Enterprise (USA)

What You Will Do

• Customer Engagement — Discovery Through Handover
  • Run technical discovery workshops with manufacturing customers independently — floor walks, process mapping, inspection point identification, constraint documentation
  • Translate floor observations into structured ROI analyses and architecture recommendations for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Scope and own the integration project from kickoff through production go-live and long-term support handoff
  • Write runbooks, train customer teams, define monitoring thresholds and retraining triggers as part of every handoff
• Software Integration Design and Implement Integrations
  • Between Maneva's edge AI platform and customer IT/OT infrastructure — APIs, ERP systems (SAP, Oracle), cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and data pipelines
  • Architect solutions that bridge the OT/IT boundary: edge compute, industrial networking, cloud connectivity, and data flow from line to enterprise systems
  • Build and deploy full-stack web applications as part of customer deployments — operational dashboards, monitoring interfaces, configuration tooling — using modern frameworks (React, Next.js, or equivalent); own front-end and back-end
  • Own the full software stack at the customer site — inference pipeline, data ingestion, integration layer, web interface, monitoring
  • Build customer-specific integration code in Python that is production-grade, documented, and maintainable without you in the room
• Edge ML and Vision Deployment
  • Deploy Maneva's computer vision models on edge hardware (NVIDIA Jetson, industrial PCs) at customer sites
  • Participate in camera and lighting specification; work with the solutions team on optical integration decisions
  • Commission and validate vision systems on the factory floor under real production conditions
  • Monitor deployed systems, define drift thresholds, and manage retraining cycles
• OT Engagement
  • Hold productive technical conversations with customer automation teams on PLC architecture, OPC-UA tag structures, and industrial network constraints — without needing an OT specialist in the room
  • Bridge the IT/OT gap for the customer: help their automation team understand what Maneva needs from the OT layer, and help their IT team understand what the floor environment requires

Requirements

• 4+ years of production software engineering experience — you have shipped systems to customer or production infrastructure, not just internal tools
• Full-stack web development fluency — you have built and deployed production web applications end-to-end
• Demonstrated customer-facing engineering experience: you have owned a technical engagement with an external customer, not just delivered a pre-scoped task
• Fluency in production software practices: Linux, Docker, Git, CI/CD in real deployments; you own your stack through go-live
• Enterprise systems integration experience: you have integrated software systems across organizational boundaries — APIs, cloud platforms, ERP, or data pipelines — in a production context
• Enough manufacturing or industrial environment exposure to hold a credible floor conversation
• Eligible to work in the United States
• Comfort with 50%+ regional travel to manufacturing customer sites in the US South and South-Central

Positive Signals

• Experience deploying ML inference on edge hardware (Jetson, industrial PC)
• Hands-on involvement in industrial vision system integration — camera selection, lighting, on-site commissioning
• OPC-UA, Modbus TCP, or SCADA integration experience
• ERP integration at the application layer (SAP, Oracle Manufacturing Cloud)
• Cloud IoT or MLOps experience (AWS IoT Greengrass, Azure IoT Hub, SageMaker, or equivalent)
• Prior FDE, solutions engineer, or field application engineer experience in a manufacturing or industrial context

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays