Job Description
Founding Forward Deployment Engineer
Operon is building the context layer for AI agents in industrial enterprise, the infrastructure that lets AI actually understand what's happening on a job site, in a facility, or across a fleet of equipment. We're four months old, YC-backed, and we're deploying our first product in the Process and Manufacturing Industry. This is not a polish-and-ship role. You'll be on the ground with customers, figuring out how our software fits into messy real-world workflows, and feeding that directly back into what we build.
What you’ll have
- Full ownership of projects.
- You will define what “Forward Deployed Engineering” means at Operon.
What You’ll Do
- Embed with customers to understand engineering workflows at the source.
- Ship production code across backend, frontend, data pipelines, and AI workflows.
- Translate ambiguous customer pain into durable product abstractions.
- Debug failures in real environments.
- Work directly with the founder on product, architecture, customer deployment, and technical strategy.
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Job Details
- Category
- Software
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- San Francisco, CA (Remote)
- Posted
- Compensation
- $100,000 - $150,000 per year
About Operon
Operon is the data intelligence layer for heavy industry. We ingest the messy documents a plant runs on (P&IDs, schematics, datasheets, scans) and turn them into one structured, queryable model of the facility. On top of it, engineers query their plant in natural language and build agentic workflows for safety, compliance, and design.
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