Head of Field Applications
AI summary of the role
Lead the engineering organization that owns the craft worker and superintendent-facing software at Ironsite, a construction AI company.
What you’ll do
- Build and lead the Field Applications engineering org, including forward deployed engineers and mobile/device software team.
- Own the forward deployed engineering model: define how FDEs embed with customers, deliver project-specific integrations, and feed learnings back to the core product.
- Own the craft worker experience end to end: mobile app for onboarding, opt-in, device check-out/check-in, and shift-level feedback.
- Own mobile device deployment at scale: provisioning, fleet management, OTA updates, telemetry, and offline-first behavior across thousands of devices.
What you’ll bring
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years managing engineers, ideally including managers or multiple teams.
- Hands-on depth in mobile (iOS/Android) and experience shipping software that manages hardware in the field: device provisioning, MDM, OTA, telemetry, or fleet management.
- Experience running or building a forward deployed engineering function or equivalent customer-embedded engineering work.
- Strong product judgment to differentiate customer asks from needs and one-offs from platform features.
Technologies
iOS · Android · MDM · OTA · telemetry · fleet management · offline-first · device provisioning · wearables · IoT
Source and classification
Deployment team leadership · Evidence for this classification:
operators who have joined us as partners in building this. Longer term, we believe Ironsite is the foundation for what construction becomes in the next decade. We think the systems we're building are the operating system for how the physical world gets built, and will unlock a fundamentally different way of respect for our workforce. One where craft workers are more valued, more visible, and better paid for the skill they bring, and where the industry finally has the intelligence layer that makes autonomous construction possible. Both futures start with the same foundation. The Role As Head of Field Applications, you'll lead the engineering organization that owns everything a crafts worker or superintendent touches. That means two teams: our forward deployed software engineers, who embed with customers on active jobsites and build what each project needs to get value from Ironsite,
More from the job description
About Ironsite Ironsite is building the intelligence layer for the physical world. We design our own wearable hardware, deploy it alongside craft workers, and transform a shift's footage into a next-morning report. Our internal team and purpose-built models label the data overnight and deliver actionable insights to superintendents by 5 AM. We are accelerating the speed, efficiency, and predictability of construction, especially for complex, mission-critical infrastructure projects, including data centers, LNG facilities, sports stadiums, hospitals, and other large-scale developments, by training AI models on egocentric construction footage and labor productivity data. We are built with a pro-worker philosophy at our core: we believe technology should empower the workforce, not replace it. We're working to give craft workers and project leaders better visibility into what's happening on-site, while creating a system where the reality of construction and the chaos of each day is finally available to the people running the project. Ironsite is deployed across several of the largest active construction projects in the country. To date, we've captured more than 100,000 hours of construction footage across seven states, now process thousands of hours of site activity every day, and maintain a worker opt-out rate below two percent. This is enabled by a workforce-first architecture [... source excerpt omitted ...] the industry finally has the intelligence layer that makes autonomous construction possible. Both futures start with the same foundation. The Role As Head of Field Applications, you'll lead the engineering organization that owns everything a crafts worker or superintendent touches. That means two teams: our forward deployed software engineers, who embed with customers on active jobsites and build what each project needs to get value from Ironsite, and our mobile team, who build the craft worker experience and the software that provisions, manages, and monitors thousands of devices in the field. This is an engineering leadership role. You'll hire and manage engineers, set tec [... source excerpt omitted ...] ment, decide what gets built as a one-off for a customer versus productized for everyone, and be accountable for the software that runs at 5:30 AM in a laydown yard with no Wi-Fi. You'll report to the CTO and partner closely with hardware, platform, and AI leads. We've assembled an incredibly diverse team that hasn't existed in construction before. This includes hardware engineers from Oculus, Fitbit, and Apple; research engineers from DeepMind, Etched, and Anduril; software engineers from Meta, NVIDIA, and Google; and construction veterans from Turner, DPR Construction, and Pacific Structures. Your job is to build the engineering team that puts all of that in front of the peo
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