Forward Deployed Engineer
Role Overview
A customer-facing Forward Deployed Engineer role at Advanced Navigation, working where navigation products meet real-world customer applications.
The role supports deployments from pre-sales evaluations through post-sales integration and customer use.
Owns delivery for a portfolio of customer deployments under the general direction of the Forward Deployed Engineering Manager.
The description says the role may develop toward Senior Forward Deployed Engineer or Technical Lead.
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Role overview
A customer-facing Forward Deployed Engineer role at Advanced Navigation, working where navigation products meet real-world customer applications.
The role supports deployments from pre-sales evaluations through post-sales integration and customer use.
Owns delivery for a portfolio of customer deployments under the general direction of the Forward Deployed Engineering Manager.
The description says the role may develop toward Senior Forward Deployed Engineer or Technical Lead.
Responsibilities
- Assess customer geospatial navigation requirements and business objectives; recommend and customise solutions with the sales team.
- Demonstrate products and communicate solution capabilities to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Embed with customer engineering teams to integrate INS, GNSS/INS and FOG-based systems into land, air, maritime and robotics platforms.
- Configure, mount, align and tune systems; resolve interface, timing, communications-protocol and environmental issues.
- Plan field tests, trials and proofs of concept; define success criteria and analyse position, velocity, acceleration and orientation data against reference truth.
- Present evidence-based results to stakeholders and feed structured customer feedback and feature requests to Product and R&D.
- Contribute to documentation, application notes, integration guides and knowledge bases.
- Support sales and customers through evaluations and deployment; manage timelines, updates, technical inquiries, issues and escalations.
Role expectations
- Assess geospatial navigation needs and recommend solutions that address customer requirements.
- Explain technical and geospatial concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Work hands-on with customer engineering teams and take ownership of deployment delivery under manager direction.
About Advanced Navigation
Advanced Navigation develops AI robotics and navigation technologies for land, air, sea and space applications.
Its stated areas of expertise include artificial intelligence, underwater sonar, GNSS, radio frequency systems, inertial sensors, robotics, quantum sensors and photonics.
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