Forward Deployed Engineer

The posting, as Ironsite Ai wrote it

About Ironsite

Ironsite is building the intelligence layer for the physical world. We design our own wearable hardware, deploy it alongside craft workers, and transform a shift's footage into a next-morning report. Our internal team and purpose-built models label the data overnight and deliver actionable insights to superintendents by 5 AM.

We are accelerating the speed, efficiency, and predictability of construction, especially for complex, mission-critical infrastructure projects, including data centers, LNG facilities, sports stadiums, hospitals, and other large-scale developments, by training AI models on egocentric construction footage and labor productivity data. We are built with a pro-worker philosophy at our core: we believe technology should empower the workforce, not replace it. We're working to give craft workers and project leaders better visibility into what's happening on-site, while creating a system where the reality of construction and the chaos of each day are finally available to the people running the project.

Ironsite is deployed across several of the largest active construction projects in the country. To date, we've captured more than 100,000 hours of construction footage across seven states, now process thousands of hours of site activity every day, and maintain a worker opt-out rate below two percent. This is enabled by a workforce-first architecture that anonymizes devices, captures no audio, and never releases raw video.

Ironsite is backed by leading investors (8VC, South Park Commons, Saga Ventures) and prominent operators across technology and construction, including Eric Schmidt, Jeff Dean, Jeff Rothschild, Mark Leslie, Scott Wu, Eric Glyman, Karim Atiyeh, Russell Kaplan, and others, alongside over a dozen construction industry operators who have joined us as partners in building this.

Longer term, we believe Ironsite is the foundation for what construction becomes in the next decade. The systems we're building will be the operating system for how the physical world gets built. We see a future where craft workers are more valued, more visible, and better paid for the skill they bring, and where the industry finally has the intelligence layer that makes autonomous construction possible. Both start with the same foundation.

The Role

Forward Deployed Engineers are how Ironsite turns the reality of the jobsite into working software.

You're an engineer first. You write code, build integrations, and ship tools. But you do it from inside the problem, on jobsites, in trailers, and on calls with the contractors who use what you build.

This is a forward deployed role adapted for construction. You'll embed alongside our Deployment Operators (senior operational leaders from the field) and directly with customers, understand how a specific builder actually runs their work, and then build the integrations, pipelines, and tooling that connect Ironsite's data to the systems and decisions that matter to them: their wor
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oped 90-day roadmaps with 1-2 customers, and shipped your first internal improvement or integration for one of our customers.

• First 90 days. You've built out roadmaps for your customer accounts alongside our Product team, and delivered on 75% of your initial roadmap.
• First 6 months. You're the person who turns a whole class of field problems into shipped software, and your work has visibly changed both what we build and how fast we deploy.

Location, Compensation, & Perks

We're hiring Forward Deployed Engineers based in the San Francisco Bay Area. You'll be anchored in our SF office and responsible for one of our three regional markets (Bay Area, Texas, or East Coast), traveling to active projects nationwide.

Compensation & Perks

• Base salary: $100k-$160k per year, commensurate with experience and location
• Meaningful early-stage equity. We want the people closest to the customer to own a real piece of the outcome.
• Travel fully covered, with per diem
• Full benefits including health, dental, and vision coverage
• Company hardware and field gear
• 401(k) with 6% match

Final compensation is determined by experience, location, and level.

Why This Role
Most software companies serving construction have never had someone on a jobsite at 6 AM. We have, constantly, and it's the reason our product works.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you sit where an industry that runs on experience meets software that's finally good enough to help. You won't build in a vacuum. You'll see the problem in person, build the fix, and watch a superintendent use it the next week. You'll have unusual influence over what we build, direct relationships with the largest builders in the country, and a front-row seat as this category gets defined.

If you're an engineer who's wondered why the tools are so far behind the work, and you want to be on the jobsite, not just adjacent to it, this is the job.

Compensation
The base pay range for this role is $100,000 – $160,000 per year.