Forward Deployed Engineer
Role Overview
The Forward Deployed Engineer connects navigation technology with real-world customer applications.
The role integrates inertial navigation systems, GNSS receivers, and FOG-based solutions into customer systems and supports demanding operating conditions.
The customer-facing position supports pre-sales evaluations and post-sales deployment, including onsite and online customer support.
The engineer owns delivery for a portfolio of customer deployments under the direction of the Forward Deployed Engineering Manager.
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About Advanced Navigation
Advanced Navigation develops AI robotics and navigation technologies for land, air, sea, and space applications.
Its expertise includes artificial intelligence, underwater sonar, GNSS, radio frequency systems, inertial sensors, robotics, quantum sensors, and photonics.
The company supplies technology to major organizations including Airbus, Boeing, Google, Tesla, NASA, Apple, and General Motors.
Role overview
The Forward Deployed Engineer connects navigation technology with real-world customer applications.
The role integrates inertial navigation systems, GNSS receivers, and FOG-based solutions into customer systems and supports demanding operating conditions.
The customer-facing position supports pre-sales evaluations and post-sales deployment, including onsite and online customer support.
The engineer owns delivery for a portfolio of customer deployments under the direction of the Forward Deployed Engineering Manager.
Deployment and customer work
- Assess customer geospatial navigation requirements and business objectives, then recommend and customize appropriate solutions.
- Embed with customer engineering teams to integrate products into land, air, maritime, and robotics platforms.
- Configure, mount, align, and tune systems; troubleshoot interfaces, timing, communications protocols, and environmental issues.
- Support sales with technical credibility during evaluations and help customers reach value through deployment.
- Manage customer timelines and provide regular progress updates.
Trials, demonstrations, and feedback
- Plan and run field tests, trials, and proofs of concept with customers.
- Define success criteria, collect and analyse position, velocity, acceleration, and orientation data against reference truth, and present results.
- Deliver product demonstrations and presentations for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Capture real-world usage, product gaps, and feature requests for Product and R&D teams.
- Contribute to product documentation, application notes, integration guides, and internal knowledge bases.
Candidate requirements
- The role calls for expertise in geospatial technologies, including GNSS and inertial navigation systems.
- The engineer communicates complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- The role involves customer-facing work and collaboration with sales, product, marketing, and customer-success teams.
Growth
The role offers a stated path to growth into Senior Forward Deployed Engineer or Technical Lead.
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