Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

The posting, as Gridsight wrote it

The energy transition is increasing grid complexity at exactly the moment utilities need to move faster. Gridsight gives utilities a real-time, dynamic understanding of how power flows through the distribution grid. Our Grid Intelligence Platform combines utility data, AI, and physics-based modeling to help utilities connect customers faster, unlock existing capacity, improve network visibility, and manage distributed energy resources at scale.
We recently raised our Series B to accelerate platform development and expansion in the United States.
We operate in a complex enterprise market where technical credibility, customer outcomes, trusted relationships, and the ability to turn difficult customer problems into working solutions all matter. We are looking for a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to help build the AI-native way our power engineers and go-to-market team solve Gridsight’s hardest utility problems—and turn that work into durable product and company leverage.

The role
This is a founding role. Forward Deployed Engineering at Gridsight will not be a copy-and-paste model from another company. Our power-system domain is highly specialised, our enterprise go-to-market motion is complex, and the AI landscape is changing quickly. You will help establish the practical model through real work, not inherit one, and have to spend time with both our GTM teams and customers to make it happen.
In the first phase, your primary customers will be internal: our experienced power engineers and U.S. go-to-market team. You will embed in how they work, understand the customer problems they are solving and the constraints they operate under, aggregate their requirements, and separate the stated request from the underlying need.
You will then become the primary field customer and product partner for the tooling being built with Product and Engineering. They will own the core tooling and platform build; you will own making sure it solves real work. You will dogfood it on live problems, pressure-test it, turn evidence into clear requirements and acceptance criteria, and keep the iteration loop tight until the tools are genuinely useful and trustworthy.
Once the tooling is ready, you will lead its rollout across the U.S. team. These are expert, time-poor practitioners who cannot afford to take a risk on an immature workflow. You will earn adoption by proving value, working alongside them through the transition, setting clear operating standards, measuring whether the new way is working, and preventing a quiet regression to old patterns.
As our founding FDE, you will help establish how the function operates while remaining a senior, hands-on individual contributor. You will work alongside our power engineers and go-to-market team as a technically credible peer, with real authority over the tooling interface, rollout and agreed ways of working. You will not inherit a large team or a finished playbook.
This is not a conventional product-management, pre-sale
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• You can make a new way of working stick. You have driven adoption of new tools or workflows with busy technical teams under live delivery pressure, using credibility and evidence while holding a clear line on agreed standards.
• You are credible in complex enterprise environments. You communicate clearly with hands-on engineers, utility leaders and executives, and connect technical work to customer and commercial outcomes.
• You are comfortable leading without hierarchy. You have high agency, low ego and sound judgement; you work as a peer, take ownership of difficult work and create momentum across functional boundaries.
• You are built for the field. You are willing to travel regularly, spend meaningful time with customers and the U.S. team, and treat direct observation as primary engineering input.

Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, customer-embedded product engineer or technical lead is helpful, but the exact title is not important. We care most about evidence that you can build product-quality software, understand power engineers, and make a better way of working real.
Why join Gridsight
The grid is the backbone of the modern economy. Electricity demand is accelerating, and utilities need better ways to identify capacity, connect customers, and make informed grid investments. Gridsight has differentiated technology, meaningful customer outcomes, strong investor backing, and a large opportunity to grow in the United States—driving significant impact towards clean energy abundance.
As our Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, you will work directly with the founders and leaders across Product, Engineering and go-to-market to create a uniquely Gridsight FDE model. You will shape how our experts use AI, how our tools are built and adopted, and how learning from the field compounds into the platform. This is an opportunity to combine software engineering, power systems, product judgement and change leadership with broad ownership from day one.