Forward Deployed Engineer
Re:Build ManufacturingBase Salary
$143k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with team members to understand business processes and identify opportunities for digital solutions.
- Own the full lifecycle of prototypes and production solutions from discovery to post-launch iteration.
- Build prototype solutions to validate approaches and accelerate discovery.
- Utilize AI and machine learning knowledge to recommend impactful solutions.
- Identify and resolve bugs in prototypes while optimizing code for performance.
- Provide technical mentorship and support throughout implementation.
- Contribute to software build and architecture for scalability and reliability.
- Ensure adherence to coding standards through code reviews.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation and implementation playbooks.
- Lead risk, security, and compliance efforts to meet DIG's standards.
- Travel up to 75% to portfolio locations for solution implementation.
Requirements
- 3+ years of software engineering or technical implementation experience in customer-facing contexts.
- Proficient in programming languages such as Python with a strong understanding of APIs.
- Ability to understand unfamiliar technical ecosystems and build integration paths.
- Excellent communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated experience with enterprise customers in manufacturing or supply chain.
- Experience with LLMs, generative AI pipelines, and automation frameworks.
- Prior consulting or internal tools engineering experience.
- Experience leading complex customer deployments involving cloud infrastructure.
- Proven ability to establish standards and operating rhythm across teams.
- Ability to travel up to 75% of the time.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision.
- Retirement plan and paid time off.
- Annual incentive compensation and/or long-term incentives.
- Employee ownership in the company with shared financial rewards.
Tech Stack
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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.