About this role
**Founding Forward Deployment Engineer**
Operon is building the context layer for AI agents in industrial enterprise, the infrastructure that lets AI actually understand what's happening on a job site, in a facility, or across a fleet of equipment. We're four months old, YC-backed, and we're deploying our first product in the Process and Manufacturing Industry. This is not a polish-and-ship role. You'll be on the ground with customers, figuring out how our software fits into messy real-world workflows, and feeding that directly back into what we build.
**What you’ll have**
* Full ownership of projects.
* You will define what “Forward Deployed Engineering” means at Operon.
**What You’ll Do**
* Embed with customers to understand engineering workflows at the source.
* Ship production code across backend, frontend, data pipelines, and AI workflows.
* Translate ambiguous customer pain into durable product abstractions.
* Debug failures in real environments.
* Work directly with the founder on product, architecture, customer deployment, and technical strategy.