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# Deployment Engineer

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Squint posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in San Francisco, CA, at $180,000–$220,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Own customer deployments from kickoff through go-live and value delivery. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026.

- [Squint](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/squint)

Posted Jul 30, 2026 by Squint · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026

**$180,000–$220,000** + equity San Francisco, CA On-site Full-time

Own customer deployments from kickoff through go-live and value delivery.

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

$180K–$220K Above the median

Midpoint $200K · median $190K

This job $180K to $220K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K.

### The work

Builds what the customer runs

Balance **Mostly building**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales (not covered)
2. Proof of concept (not covered)
3. Implementation
4. Operations (not covered)

Travel **Required, amount not stated**

- **Coding**: Writes production code

- **Builds for**: External customers

- **Level**: Senior

- **Role**: Individual contributor

### What they ask for

Experience

- **3+ years** hands-on software engineering

Background

- **Software engineering**

### Do you meet what the posting states?

The posting asks for 3+ years. How many do you have?

The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now?

The job is in San Francisco, CA. Could you work there?

Which of these have you used in production?

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## Conditions

- **Location**: San Francisco, CA

- **Work arrangement**: On-site

- **Employment type**: Full-time

- **Travel**: Travel required, amount not stated

- **Pay**:

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## The job description from Squint

Posted by Squint on Jul 30, 2026

### About Squint

Our mission is to accelerate human potential.

Squint is the Industrial AI company that turns operating knowledge into action. Our technology serves Fortune 500 leaders across manufacturing, field services, and utilities. Companies such as PepsiCo, Continental Tire, and Tenneco use Squint to capture and activate their essential tribal knowledge, standards docs, and OT data into procedures, orchestrated work, and context for AI agents to act on.

Some things to know about us:

- We are obsessed with our customers, and they’ll tell you so themselves.
- We raised a $40M Series B in 2025, backed by elite investors including Sequoia Capital, Menlo Ventures, TCV and The Westly Group.
- Fast Company named us to their Most Innovative Companies list in 2025 and 2026.
- We were named to Built In’s Best Startups to Work for in SF list.
- Read more about us in Upstarts Media, Fortune, Forbes, and more.

### About the Role

We're hiring a Deployment Engineer to be Squint's technical bridge between our platform and the real world: the factory floors, job sites, and utility yards where our customers actually work.

This isn't a configuration job. Our customers' environments are messy and industrial — legacy systems, spotty connectivity, workers in the field wearing AR headsets instead of sitting at a desk. You'll write real production code to make Squint's knowledge graph and AI workflows work in that environment, for that customer, this week.

You'll work closely with our founding engineering team, embedding directly with named accounts to turn ambiguous operational problems into shipped, working deployments.

### What You’ll Do

You'll be the engineer accountable for getting Squint live at a customer site and proving out its value. You will:

- **Own deployments end-to-end: **From kickoff to go-live, you'll be the engineer accountable for getting Squint live and delivering value at a customer site — no handoffs, no hiding behind a ticket queue.
- **Build, don't just configure: **You'll write production code — integrations, custom workflows, data pipelines — to adapt Squint to each customer's systems, equipment, and terminology.
- **Go where the work is: **You'll spend time on factory floors and in the field, watching how frontline teams actually work, so you can build something they'll actually use.
- **Close the loop with product: **Every deployment teaches us something. You'll turn field learnings into clear, prioritized feedback that shapes Squint's core roadmap.
- **Earn trust at every level: **From the frontline operator to the plant manager to the exec sponsor, you'll be the person customers count on to make Squint work.

### About you

- You're comfortable being handed an ambiguous, half-defined problem and turning it into a working system.
- You communicate as well with a maintenance technician on a factory floor as you do with a VP of Operations.
- You're energized, not drained, by travel and time on-site — expect meaningful travel in this role.

### What You’ll Bring

- 3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience — full-stack, backend, or infrastructure — with a track record of shipping production code.
- Experience working directly with customers or embedded in a customer's environment (consulting, forward-deployed, or startup implementation experience is a strong plus).
- Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action over process.
- Genuine interest in industrial operations — manufacturing, field services, or utilities experience is a differentiator, not a requirement.

### Benefits

Based out of our office in San Francisco, we love the energy of in-person collaboration.

- Competitive Salary and Equity
- Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental care
- Flexible PTO Policy
- Lunch and Dinner Service
- Wellness Benefit
- Maven Family Planning Benefits
- Partnership with Care.com
- Mental Health Services
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Pre-Tax Commuter Benefit for Parking & Public Transit
- Company-wide Retreats
- Subsidized Uber to and from the office

### A Final Note

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Squint is an equal opportunity employer, welcoming applicants from all backgrounds without regard to race, gender, age, or any other protected characteristic. We encourage you to apply even if you're not quite sure you fit all the requirements for the role!

Ready to redefine the future? Join us at Squint and be a part of something revolutionary.

[View posting at Squint](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/squint.ai/a108a7a1-44d6-4b3f-bca3-b4561a82a4cf/application)

## About Squint

Industrial AI platform that turns factory operating knowledge and systems data into procedures, frontline guidance, analytics, and workflow agents.

Series B · 50–100 people

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