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 : Junior to intermediate (2–5 years of experience) ·

💰 Compensation : €50,000 – €75,000 per year (base + deployment bonus tied to validated client gains).

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.

What you'll do:

You embed inside an industrial client — a factory, a warehouse network, a supply chain organization — and you deploy vertical AI software until it produces measurable, recurring gains. You own the last mile that everyone else abandons: from signed contract to validated euros.

• Deploy vertical AI products for industrial operations — 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.

Your profile :

Junior to intermediate, hungry, high-slope. 2–5 years of experience. We care about what you can become in 18 months.

Must-haves (non-negotiable):

• You code, for real. Python or equivalent, comfort with SQL and APIs. You have built working things. We will test this.
• Structured problem decomposition — 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.
• You hold a conversation with a skeptical adult and can explain something technical to someone who isn't.
• Professional French and English.

Nice-to-haves: exposure to industrial environments, a quantitative backbone, frontend basics (React/TypeScript), any evidence of ownership.

Career path :

FDE → Senior FDE (owns accounts) → Lead FDE (owns a portfolio of deployments and a team). Scope here is earned by what your deployments do for clients' P&L, not by tenure.

Working conditions :

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. 3-week paid intensive bootcamp at start. 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.

We look for profiles with clear, standout strengths, not ones that just check every box a little.