Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

DRYFT Dryft builds intelligent systems that automate complex human decisions in manufacturing operations We’re a small, talent-dense team with modest roots and a love for the physical world - cars, machines, planes. Our team includes graduates from Stanford, Berkeley, CDTM, TUM, winners of Stanford TreeHacks, recipients of Fulbright & Haniel scholarships, and builders of everything from robots and race cars to software with millions of downloads. We’re backed by the founders and leaders behind Amazon, Facebook, Stripe, Applied Intuition, & others; General Catalyst & Neo, and board members of global industrial companies. Today, we’re already saving customers millions. But this is only the beginning. ERPs ran the physical world for half a century. Dryft is powering the next. THE ROLE This role is our most entrepreneurial. I no other role will you learn more about how to become a great founder, listener & builder. As our Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, you’ll operate at the intersection of product, engineering, and operations. 50% Engineering, 50% Customer interaction. Design the product backbone. Work hands-on with users, translate their pain into product improvements, and prototype features yourself - ideally writing production code when needed. Turn operations into product. Every deployment becomes a blueprint for scale — you’ll transform learnings into reusable pr [... source excerpt omitted ...] T leader, and still keep humor in the room. Down-to-earth & relatable. You bond with shop-floor operators as easily as with boardroom execs. Fluent German & English speaker. Our customers are global, and you’ll move between San Francisco, the US Midwest, Mexico and the heart of German manufacturing. TECH STACK FE (TypeScript): React, Chakra UI v3, TanStack Router, TanStack Query, Vite BE (Python): FastAPI with Pydantic v2, SQLModel, Postgres with pgvector, dagster AI: Pydantic AI, Langfuse