Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering
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This is a field-leading engineering role for someone who likes hard deadlines, partial information, and high ownership.
You will lead a small, mission-critical team responsible for making new operational systems work in the real world, then turning those wins into repeatable playbooks.
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About the Job
This is a field-leading engineering role for someone who likes hard deadlines, partial information, and high ownership. You will lead a small, mission-critical team responsible for making new operational systems work in the real world, then turning those wins into repeatable playbooks.
What You'll Do
Lead cross-functional deployments for new operational or manufacturing capabilities
Coordinate software, controls, test, and integration work under real timeline pressure
Support line launches across internal sites, partner settings, and select international efforts
Unblock critical-path issues and drive convergence across technical teams
Turn one-off deployments into scalable methods, tooling, and operating practices
Required Qualifications
- Experience leading technical teams in high-urgency deployment or commissioning environments
- Strong systems thinking across software, hardware, controls, or test
- Ability to make decisions quickly and keep teams aligned under pressure
- Proven record of driving execution where failure is visible and expensive
- Comfort being highly hands-on when needed
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with forward deployed, field engineering, launch, commissioning, or new-site activation work
- Experience in manufacturing, industrial, robotics, infrastructure, or other physical-system domains
- Strong instincts for process design, escalation, and operational triage
- Ability to translate heroics into systems
- Experience operating alongside external stakeholders, funded programs, or strategic initiatives
About Regulus Industries
Stealth defense technology startup building advanced hardware and manufacturing systems.
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