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Salary: USD 112,012 - 168,018 / annual
Re:Build Manufacturing is revitalizing America's manufacturing base by operating an advanced, end-to-end manufacturing platform that partners with industrial companies to take products from concept to full-scale production in aerospace and defense, electrification, medical, energy, and robotics.
The Forward Deployed Engineer will be embedded at one of Re:Build's harness manufacturing plants, serving as the primary technical support for Cadonix's harness manufacturing software. You will work directly with the plant's production, engineering, and quality teams to resolve issues quickly and keep operations running smoothly.
Key responsibilities include:
- On-Site Production Support: Act as the first point of contact for the smartBuild software system. Triage, diagnose, and resolve issues affecting the software, its configuration, data, integrations, and connected shop-floor hardware (workstations, terminals, scanners, label printers), prioritizing anything impacting production output.
- Customer Engagement: Collaborate effectively with remote Product, Development, and QA teams across time zones, and work alongside a senior Forward Deployed Engineer on site.
- Customer Liaison & Change Requests: Understand manufacturing processes and difficulties, capture feature improvement requests as clear requirements, review these with the Cadonix Product and Development teams, and support user acceptance testing before new features deploy.
- Cloud Development & Tooling: Develop and maintain scripts, integrations, reports, and tools on AWS that facilitate site operations, following development standards for code review, testing, and deployment.
- Blocking Issue & Root Cause Analysis: Report defects to the development team with reproducible steps, logs, and business impact. Track issues to resolution, verify fixes on site, and lead root-cause analysis for recurring or high-impact problems.
- Training & Documentation: Train operators, supervisors, and engineers on the system. Maintain site-specific procedures, runbooks, and knowledge bases to resolve common issues quickly and consistently.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical or Manufacturing Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience combined with education
- 3–5 years' experience in software development, support, or implementation
- Understanding of production environments and shop-floor workflows
- Experience engaging directly with customers
- Hands-on experience building and deploying applications on AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, API Gateway, CloudWatch, IAM)
- Proficiency in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, or C#
- Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases, Windows and Linux environments, web-based applications and APIs
- Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
