Prox
Forward-Deployed Engineer
This posting was open on Prox's own careers board when we last checked it.
- Employer
- Prox
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Seniority
- Not stated
- Experience asked for
- Not stated
- Pay band
- $160K – $190K
- Team
- Full stack
When we saw it
- First seen 2026-07-23 — the first scan of ours that found it
- Last seen open 2026-07-23
- Archived 2026-07-23 — when we saved this copy
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From the posting
## tl;dr ⊹ You are the engineer who owns Prox in the field: launch customer deployments, travel on-site, debug what breaks, measure whether users trust it, and turn rollout pain into product. ⊹ This is a travel-heavy engineering role. You should be excited to spend real time with customers at dealerships, service desks, factory offices, training rooms, and wherever the product is actually being used. ⊹ You will work directly with customers, founders, and founding engineers. You will write code, shape product, build deployment infrastructure, run evals, handle rollout analytics, and push fixes into the core platform. ⊹ A real rollout might start with one champion, expand to a pilot group, then move across 100+ dealerships across the US. Your job is to make that expansion measurable, stable, and successful. ⊹ Based in San Francisco when not traveling. We work in person. …
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