Senior Forward Deployed Engineer — Industrial AI

🏭 Industrial AI software that delivers the value it promises — measured in euros on the client's P&L, not in slides.📍 Location: Paris-based, deployed at industrial client sites across France and Europe📄 Contract: CDI🎯 Level: Senior (5+ years of experience)💰 Compensation: €80,000 – €100,000/year (base + deployment bonus tied to validated client gains, + equity)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.What 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. At this level, you don't just execute the last mile — you own the account end-to-end and set the standard for how deployments should run.Own the full deployment cycle for one or several client accounts — 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 — and coach junior FDEs on how to do the same.Spot the next opportunity inside an existing account and build the business case for it yourself.Your profile : Senior, entrepreneurial, hands-on. 5+ years of experience. We care less about your title and more about what you've actually shipped and owned.Must-haves (non-negotiable):You've shipped production code with your own hands for at least 5 years. 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 hold a room with a skeptical plant manager, 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, a founder background (successful or not).Career path: Senior FDE (owns one or several accounts) → Lead FDE (owns a portfolio of deployments and a team) → Founder track. Scope here is earned by what your deployments do for clients' P&L, not by tenure — and the studio behind us means a real path to launching your own company without burning your own savings to do it.Working 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.