Forward Deployed Engineer
AI summary of the role
Forward Deployed Engineers at Gecko Robotics act as builders embedded with a single customer, owning the full cycle from problem discovery to solution delivery.
What you’ll do
- Build Gecko's business within the context of a single customer at a time.
- Seek out valuable problems that hold customers back, affecting cashflow, production, safety, and the environment.
- Create solutions and prove their value, owning the process from start to finish.
- Help navigate Gecko's platforms to scale solutions across customers.
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or relevant experience.
- 3+ years of experience in a similar position.
- Proficiency with programming languages such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, or similar.
- Familiarity with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, and front-end frameworks.
Technologies
Python · JavaScript · React · Google Cloud · Amazon Web Services · Java · C++
About Gecko Robotics
Builds climbing, flying, and swimming robots plus AI software that inspect and optimize critical infrastructure for defense, energy, and industrial operators.
Unicorn
Source and classification
Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:
What We Do Gecko Robotics is helping the world’s most important organizations ensure the availability, reliability, and sustainability of critical infrastructure. Gecko's complete and connected solutions combine wall-climbing robots, industry-leading sensors, and an AI-powered data platform to provide customers with a unique window into the current and future health of their physical assets. This enables real-time decision making to increase the efficiency and safety of operations, promote mission readiness, and protect the environment and civilization from the effects of infrastructure failure. Role at a Glance Our Forward Deployed Engineers are not support engineers, they’re builders. Forward Deployed Engineers build our business within the context of a single customer at a time. They seek out valuable problems that hold our customers back. The problems we work on are multi-domain,
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What We Do Gecko Robotics is helping the world’s most important organizations ensure the availability, reliability, and sustainability of critical infrastructure. Gecko's complete and connected solutions combine wall-climbing robots, industry-leading sensors, and an AI-powered data platform to provide customers with a unique window into the current and future health of their physical assets. This enables real-time decision making to increase the efficiency and safety of operations, promote mission readiness, and protect the environment and civilization from the effects of infrastructure failure. Role at a Glance Our Forward Deployed Engineers are not support engineers, they’re builders. Forward Deployed Engineers build our business within the context of a single customer at a time. They seek out valuable problems that hold our customers back. The problems we work on are multi-domain, affecting cashflow, production, safety, and the environment. A Forward Deployed Engineer doesn’t stop at finding problems, but goes on to create solutions and prove their value, owning the process from start to finish. Forward Deployed Engineers, by solving a specific version of the problem for a specific customer, also help to navigate Gecko’s platforms - Gecko’s tools that scale across customers. What you will do Solve Real Problems: We search for the highest impact problems we can find, we [... source excerpt omitted ...] at enables that impact. Gecko is committed to creating a culture of inclusion and belonging, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe it is our collective responsibility to uphold these values and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to join us in our mission to protect today’s infrastructure and give form to tomorrow’s. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law. If you are
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