Forward Deployed Engineering Leader (Manufacturing)

Location: Los Angeles, United States; on-site

Salary: $180K–$220K per year plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds ION Factory OS, an operating system for next-generation manufacturing across aerospace, clean energy, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and other advanced hardware industries.

What you will do

• Build, lead, hire, coach, and retain a high-performing forward deployed engineering team.
• Own priorities, staffing, capacity, milestones, and risk management across concurrent customer deployments.
• Set standards for discovery, architecture, implementation, testing, go-live, documentation, production support, and deployment reviews.
• Act as an executive and technical escalation point for strategic deployments, complex integrations, production incidents, and high-stakes tradeoffs.
• Partner with Sales and Customer Success on technical discovery, scoping, expansion strategy, and account planning.
• Work with Product and Engineering to productize repeatable customer solutions and improve tooling, automation, and the operating model.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, technical consulting, or enterprise implementation, including 3+ years managing engineers.
• Experience building and developing high-performing technical teams while improving delivery predictability and engineering quality.
• Strong technical judgment across modern software systems, APIs, integrations, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, security, and production operations.
• Experience owning complex, customer-facing technical programs from discovery through go-live and ongoing operation.
• Executive-level communication and commercial judgment, including scope, risk, adoption, expansion, and revenue considerations.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States; onboarding includes E-Verify verification.

Nice to have

• Experience leading forward deployed, solutions architecture, professional services, implementation engineering, or technical account teams.
• Experience in manufacturing, aerospace, defense, energy, industrial software, ERP, PLM, MES, or other operationally complex domains.
• Experience scaling a technical services or deployment function while improving repeatability, margins, or revenue contribution.
• Experience turning customer-specific work into reusable platform capabilities.
• Familiarity with enterprise security, regulated environments, air-gapped networks, and high-availability production systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental, and life insurance.
• Paid parental leave, holidays, sick days, flexible Fridays, and PTO.
• Employee stock option plan and 401(k).
• Team outings, group lunches, an open office, and happy hours.