What are the responsibilities and job description for the Forward Deployed Engineer position at Mechademy?
About Mechademy
Mechademy is transforming the predictive analytics landscape for rotating machinery. Our flagship platform, Turbomechanica, seamlessly integrates applied physics with advanced machine learning to deliver prescriptive insights. Turbomechanica detects potential issues long before they become costly failures, enabling clients to maximize uptime, extend asset life, and reduce operational risks. By empowering clients with optimized performance and reliability of their multi-billion-dollar assets, we’re setting a new standard for operational excellence.
Why Mechademy?
Kickstart your career with a company that’s fun, innovative, and shaping the future of the oil and gas industry. Mechademy is where cutting-edge predictive analytics meets a culture of collaboration and creativity. We’re not your typical start-up company – we thrive on solving complex challenges with technology, fostering growth, and making an impact. Whether you're diving into groundbreaking projects, learning from industry leaders, or enjoying team outings, you’ll feel valued and inspired every step of the way.
• Work on groundbreaking technology that is shaping the future of rotating equipment diagnostics.
• Relish a challenging, dynamic role with opportunities for individual contributions that direct impact on the success of the company.
• Grow into a leadership position as Mechademy grows.
• Enjoy flexible work hours to work when you are most efficient.
• Generous compensation to help you achieve financial stability.
At Mechademy, your ideas matter, your growth is our priority, and your future starts now.
About the Role
Mechademy is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to work directly with enterprise customers, including power plants, LNG terminals, refineries, and gas processing and pipeline operators, deploying Turbomechanica, our physics-informed ML platform for rotating equipment, into production environments.
This is a highly technical, customer-facing engineering role that sits at the intersection of software engineering, solutions architecture, and customer success. You will build real diagnostics and monitoring integrations while partnering directly with customers to solve technical problems on their equipment and their systems.
This role is open to both recent graduates and engineers with 2 years of experience.
Responsibilities:
Deployment & Integration
• Build and deploy Turbomechanica integrations for enterprise operators.
• Develop connections using Python, JavaScript, APIs, historians, CMMS/ERP systems, and other plant systems.
• Design prototypes, demos, and production-ready implementations.
• Drive projects from initial concept through production deployment.
Customer Partnership
• Partner directly with customers to gather requirements and translate operating problems into technical solutions.
• Translate customer feedback into product improvements and new capabilities.
Collaboration & Domain Learning
• Collaborate closely with Sales, Product, and Engineering.
• Build fluency in physics-informed modeling, anomaly detection, and diagnostics workflows for turbines, compressors, pumps, and engines.
Requirements
For Candidates with 2 Years of Experience
• 2 years in a customer-facing technical role: Solutions Engineering, Software Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, Technical Product Management, Customer Success Engineering, or Founder/Startup experience.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and production-level experience with Python, JavaScript, or similar.
• Experience working directly with customers and external stakeholders.
For Recent Graduates
• Recent graduate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Internship experience in software engineering or a technical customer-facing role preferred.
• Strong coding skills in Python, JavaScript, or similar.
For All Candidates
• Comfortable in fast-paced, ambiguous startup environments
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Interest in industrial technology, applied ML, and physics-informed modeling.
• Comfortable taking ownership and learning quickly.
What This Role Offers
• Top-of-market compensation and equity.
• Significant ownership and visibility from day one.
• Work directly with power, LNG, refining, and pipeline operators solving real equipment problems.
• Exposure to physics-informed ML on live industrial systems, not synthetic benchmarks.
• Remote-first with flexibility, with Houston preferred for proximity to Gulf Coast customers.
• Visa sponsorship available for qualified candidates.
• Small, high-performing team with a massive growth trajectory.
• Help define the future of industrial AI.
Location
• Remote (Houston, TX preferred)