# Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company:** [Dryft](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/dryft)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Python, Pydantic, Sqlmodel, Postgres, Pgvector, Dagster, Chakra Ui, React Query, Tanstack Router, Vite, Langfuse
**Posted:** 2025-08-01

> Founding engineer building intelligent manufacturing automation systems, handling 50% hands-on full-stack development and 50% customer deployments, product design, and operations scaling. Requires full-stack expertise, German fluency, systems thinking, and customer-facing skills with 10-30% travel.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Operate at the intersection of product, engineering, and operations (50% engineering, 50% customer interaction).
- Design the product backbone, work hands-on with users, translate pain points into product improvements, and prototype features (potentially writing production code).
- Transform operations into scalable product features, data models, and playbooks.
- Lead full-stack rollouts: scoping, onboarding, integration, training; align IT teams, engineers, and C-level execs (10–30% travel).
- Shape product DNA, work directly with CEO & CTO, grow into roles like CPO or COO.

## Requirements
- Product architect mindset: turn ERP frustrations into intuitive features; care about UX, speed, simplicity.
- Sharp mind: quick learner, strong listener, detail-oriented.
- Systems thinker: design scalable processes in code, operations, and workflows; think in data and automation.
- Quality-obsessed: high standards, dive deep into problems.
- Confident communicator: handle execs, IT leaders, maintain humor.
- Down-to-earth: bond with operators and execs.
- Fluent in German & English.

## Tech Stack
**Frontend (TypeScript):** React, Chakra UI v3, TanStack Router, TanStack Query, Vite  
**Backend (Python):** FastAPI with Pydantic v2, SQLModel, Postgres with pgvector, dagster  
**AI:** Pydantic AI, Langfuse

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