Forward Deployed Engineer
Rerun · Remote · Remote US, West Coast ·
COMPENSATION
$175k – $300k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote (EU/US)
- Python + Data Engineering
- ~30% travel required
- Physical AI focus
- Quarterly team meetups
Join Rerun as a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with robotics and spatial-AI teams. You will manage multi-month engagements, ensuring complex physical data flows smoothly into the Rerun viewer and Hub.
By addressing production issues and building integrations, you will bridge the gap between customer needs and product development. This high-ownership role helps shape deployment strategies while solving hard data problems in customer environments.
What you'll do
- Conduct technical discovery and scope solutions for customer-specific problems
- Resolve complex data and infrastructure issues within customer production environments
- Report recurring patterns and product gaps to internal engineering and product teams
- Coordinate efforts between Rerun and customer stakeholders to ensure successful deployments
- Build data pipelines and integrations to facilitate data flow into Rerun systems
What you'll need
- Strong proficiency in Python and hands-on experience with data workflows
- Ability to learn quickly and operate effectively in ambiguous situations
- Comfortable in customer-facing roles, including asking probing questions
- Skilled at surfacing hidden requirements and coordinating across different teams
- Willingness to travel approximately 30% of the time for customer deployments
- Background in data engineering, platform engineering, or software engineering with data focus
Nice to have
- Experience with robotics, autonomy, perception, or sensor data
- History of open-source contributions or notable side projects
- Prior professional experience in customer-facing technical roles
Stack
- Python
- Rerun
- Rerun Hub
How you'll work
- Fully remote with headquarters in Stockholm and hub in San Francisco
- Team members spread across European and US time zones
- Daily overlap hours arranged per team rather than fixed windows
- In-person team meetings occur roughly once per quarter
- Approximately 30% travel required for customer site visits
What you get
- Competitive cash and equity compensation packages
- Six weeks of paid vacation annually
- Provision of necessary hardware and software tools
- 12 weeks of full-pay parental leave for every parent
- Additional local statutory leave entitlements apply