Engineering Lead - Forward Deployed Engineering
Viaduct
| Company | Viaduct |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Slovenia |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Lead |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 25 Mar 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
About Viaduct
Viaduct builds production-grade AI systems for the world's manufacturers: not pilots, not proofs of concept. Right now that means deploying real AI use cases inside one of Japan's largest manufacturers: a modern cloud and AI stack we control end-to-end, shipped all the way down to a plant floor running robots, lasers, and IoT gear most software teams never get near. Forward Deployed Engineering is where that stack meets the real world.
Who You Are You're an experienced software developer who's shipped end-to-end, from ideation to production, and doesn't flinch at getting into the weeds of a customer's environment when it counts. You care deeply about engineering best practices and know how to collaborate closely with a senior architect and own significant implementation decisions yourself, rather than waiting to be handed a spec. You like mentoring engineers as much as writing code. You write code to create impact in the real world, not just creating endless prototypes or building other people's ideas.
About the Role
As Engineering Lead for our Forward Deployed team, you'll own the technical delivery of custom AI solutions for a major manufacturing customer, and help grow the team around you, working alongside a growing group of strong engineers, not sitting on an island. Day to day, you'll design, build, and ship solutions against real plant-floor constraints: legacy systems, strict uptime requirements, and hardware environments most of the industry has never touched.
This isn't greenfield SaaS work. It's building modern software that has to survive contact with a real factory.
Part of the job is knowing when not to build. We sit next to a sophisticated internal platform (K8s, Argo, Python/pydantic-ai, Go microservices, React/TS frontend) that's evolving into shared services. You'll be on the critical decision path for how we leverage that platform, while moving at speed to deliver high-impact use cases into production for our stakeholder.
Key Responsibilities
Design and implement customer solutions
Develop, and lead a forward deployed software engineering team
Ensure work is appropriately scoped, estimated, and planned
Provide support for data center and network operations, first response for systems and network issues, and performance monitoring.
Create and manage process improvement projects to continuously improve how the company builds and deploys its products
Position Details:
Compensation: Competitive base salary, short-term incentive (annual bonus) and long-term incentive (long-term upside)
Travel: 0-50% (with significant international travel component)
Employment Type: Full Time
Work site: Up to 100% work from home
Team: Internal Efficiencies
Qualifications
3+ years as an Tech lead.
Strong SAAS application background.
Hands on developer with strong architecture and Back End development skills.
Execution ability to drive progress under tight deadlines.
Leadership skills to attract, retain, and influence talented team members.
Self-motivated and with a bias towards action.
Prior work in small, agile teams.
Security and Privacy Responsibilities
Follow our policy and procedure documents related to security and privacy
Follow the guidelines in the Employee Handbook
Participate in new hire and annual training for security and privacy
Treat data security and privacy as one of your primary job responsibilities
Risk analysis and development of controls to mitigate risks.
Ongoing risk assessment and mitigation strategies, including implementation.
Ensure that customer data is changed or deleted upon request
Ensure that the application maintains logical separation of customer data.
Ensure that work is appropriately scoped, estimated, and planned
Maintain an up-to-date written architecture diagram of customer solutions
Ensure that production application changes are document
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