First Resonance
Forward Deployed Engineer
We captured this posting once, on 2026-07-06, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.
- Employer
- First Resonance
- Location
- Manhattan Beach, CA
- Seniority
- Not stated
- Experience asked for
- Not stated
- Pay band
- $140K – $180K
When we saw it
- Posted 2026-06-17 — the date the employer published it
- Archived 2026-07-06 — when we saved this copy
Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.
Skills the posting named
From the posting
We are recruiting for a Forward Deployed Software Engineer based in Los Angeles for a manufacturing technology company whose software platform runs inside factories building rockets, electric aircraft, autonomous vehicles, and defense systems. This company has built its engineering organization around a model where engineers are the customer team -- there is no separate customer success layer. You will be embedded at customer facilities in the LA area approximately two days per week and working out of the company's El Segundo office the rest of the time, building custom software solutions that solve real operational problems for your customers. The role requires someone who can write production-quality code across a full stack and operate in front of executive-level customer stakeholders at the same time. …
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