Forward Deployed Engineer - Industrial AI

About us:We make industrial AI software deliver the value it promises — measured in euros on the client's P&L, not in slides. Our founding team learned something expensive across more than 100 industrial AI deployments: roughly 40% of the data an AI system needs does not exist in any system of record. It lives in a planner's head, in a supervisor's spreadsheet, in the muscle memory of a machine operator with twenty years on the line. Someone has to go get it. That someone is you.Our values:Impact, not reports. Every hour of work traces to the client's P&L. Ship in weeks. A working system on Friday beats a perfect architecture next quarter. The floor is the truth. The ERP says one thing, the shop floor does another. We believe the floor, and we go see it. Ownership without borders. You close gaps even when they're outside your lane. No submarines. Humility as a method. "I don't understand this process yet" is the beginning of every good deployment. Job DescriptionWhat you'll do:You embed inside an industrial client — a factory, a warehouse network, a supply chain organization — and you own the deployment of vertical AI software until it produces measurable, recurring gains. You own the last mile that everyone else abandons: from signed contract to validated euros.Own the deployment cycle for a client account — configuration, integration, data pipelines, and the custom glue code no product ships with. Extract the data that doesn't exist yet: interview the planner, sit with the operator, turn tribal knowledge into structured data. Frame every scope as a business case: what it's worth in euros, how we'll measure it, when finance signs off. Run the deployment cycle like a professional: weekly steering, clear status, risks surfaced early. Spot the next opportunity inside an existing account and build the business case for it. QualificationsYour profile:Entrepreneurial, hands-on, hungry to build. We care less about your title or years of experience than about what you've actually shipped and owned.Must-haves (non-negotiable):You've shipped production code with your own hands. Name the repo, the stack, what broke, who reviewed it. You've built something from zero that nobody asked you to build — a real product, tool, or automation with actual users, not just an idea. Structured problem decomposition on genuinely ambiguous problems — the single most tested skill in our hiring process. You want the field, not the office. Factories are loud, data is dirty, stakeholders are skeptical — and you'd rather be there than behind a roadmap committee. You can hold a conversation with a skeptical plant manager or stakeholder, explain something technical to someone who isn't, disagree with a client, and say "I don't know" without losing the room. An entrepreneurial mindset — a genuine builder, comfortable getting your hands dirty rather than just architecting from a distance. Professional French and English — you can run a workshop with a plant manager and a standup with an English-speaking stakeholder. Available to travel 2–3 days a week to client sites, including outside Paris and occasionally abroad. Nice-to-haves: prior exposure to industrial environments, a quantitative backbone, frontend basics (React/TypeScript), prior experience owning a P&L or a client relationship, any evidence of ownership, a founder background (successful or not).Additional InformationWorking conditions:3-week paid intensive bootcamp at start. Paris base; expect 40–60% of time at client sites during active deployments — in practice, 2–3 days a week on-site, back in Paris the rest of the week, with occasional travel abroad. Standard health cover, meal vouchers, €2K relocation allowance if moving to Paris.This role is probably not for you if…You want a pure engineering job with no client in the room. You need certainty about what next month looks like. You're more comfortable describing a solution than shipping one. Travel is a dealbreaker. You need a mandate before you'll build something.We look for profiles with clear, standout strengths, not ones that just check every box a little.