Forward Deployed Engineer
Re:Build ManufacturingBase Salary
$112k - $168k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide on-site production support for smartBuild, including triage and resolution of software, configuration, data, integration, and connected shop-floor hardware issues.
- Engage with plant production, engineering, quality, product, development, and QA teams across locations and time zones.
- Capture, prioritize, and communicate feature enhancements and change requests to Cadonix product and development teams.
- Develop and maintain AWS-based scripts, integrations, reports, and small operational tools.
- Document defects with reproducible steps, logs, and business impact; track fixes and lead root-cause analysis for recurring or high-impact issues.
- Support on-site user acceptance testing before feature rollouts.
- Train operators, supervisors, and engineers and maintain site procedures, runbooks, and knowledge-base content.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience combined with education.
- 3–5 years of experience in software development, support, or implementation.
- Understanding of production environments and shop-floor workflows.
- Experience engaging directly with customers.
- Hands-on experience building and deploying applications on AWS, including services such as Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, API Gateway, CloudWatch, and IAM.
- Proficiency in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, or C#.
- Working knowledge of SQL, relational databases, Windows, Linux, web-based applications, and APIs.
- Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, retirement, and paid-time-off benefits.
- Employees share ownership in the company and may share in its financial rewards.
- The role is embedded on site at a harness manufacturing plant.
- The position may be eligible for annual incentive compensation and/or long-term incentives under company plans.
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About Re:Build Manufacturing
Re:Build Manufacturing integrates design, engineering, and manufacturing to deliver complex, multi-technology products from concept through full-rate production. Our Manufacturability for Design™ approach embeds production constraints into early-stage development, eliminating the costly redesign cycles that plague fragmented development models. With 1,200+ employees and 400+ engineers operating across an integrated U.S.-based ecosystem, we combine advanced capabilities in a single system. We serve industries where both field performance and production economics are non-negotiable: aerospace and defense, electrification, energy, medical devices, and advanced automation. Re:Build reconnects engineering and manufacturing to restore competitive U.S. production capability for programs that require control, supply chain resilience, and technical accountability.