Dryft
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco · Exec
Sponsorship not specified$10k-$30kDetected 355 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactViteFastAPIFull-Stack DevelopmentPostgreSQLERP5G/LTE
About the role
- Every deployment becomes a blueprint for scale - you'll transform learnings into reusable product features, data models, and playbooks that move Dryft from bespoke to productized.
- I no other role will you learn more about how to become a great founder, listener & builder.
Responsibilities
- Shape how Dryft scales. Work directly with the CEO & CTO to define the product DNA, build the foundation for future teams, and grow into roles like CPO or COO.
- Systems thinker. You design processes that scale - in code, in operations, and in how people work. You think in data and automation.
- Lead full-stack rollouts. Own implementations end-to-end: from scoping and onboarding to integration and training. Align IT teams, engineers, and C-level execs across Germany, the EU, and the US (10-30% travel).
Requirements
- You can calm an impatient exec, convince a skeptical IT leader, and still keep humor in the room.
Nice to have
- Work hands-on with users, translate their pain into product improvements, and prototype features yourself - ideally writing production code when needed.
Skills
- FE (TypeScript): React, Chakra UI v3, TanStack Router, TanStack Query, Vite
- BE (Python): FastAPI with Pydantic v2, SQLModel, Postgres with pgvector, dagster
- AI: Pydantic AI, Langfuse
Compensation
- $10k-$30k
Company info
- Dryft builds intelligent systems that automate complex human decisions in manufacturing operations
- We're a small, talent-dense team with modest roots and a love for the physical world - cars, machines, planes.
- Our team includes graduates from Stanford, Berkeley, CDTM, TUM, winners of Stanford TreeHacks, recipients of Fulbright & Haniel scholarships, and builders of everything from robots and race cars to software with millions of downloads.
- We're backed by the founders and leaders behind Amazon, Facebook, Stripe, Applied Intuition, & others; General Catalyst & Neo, and board members of global industrial companies.
- Today, we're already saving customers millions.
- But this is only the beginning.
- ERPs ran the physical world for half a century.
- Dryft is powering the next.
- Fluent German & English speaker. Our customers are global, and you'll move between San Francisco, the US Midwest, Mexico and the heart of German manufacturing.
This listing is sourced directly from Dryft's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.