Forward Deployed Engineer

Location: Paris, France (Hybrid: office days on Mondays & Thursdays)

Languages required: English & French

Seniority: Mid-to-Senior Level (5+ years experience)

Contract type: Full-time, Permanent

For engineers who want deep technical ownership across the full customer lifecycle, without being boxed into sales, delivery.

Everything you own was made somewhere. The companies that make it run on coordination, across shifts, sites, and thousands of daily decisions. Most of that coordination still happens on whiteboards. Fabriq is the platform that changes it, bringing structure, visibility, and continuous improvement to the teams that keep the physical world running. Safran, LVMH, Scania, Danone… 70+ countries.

Most technical roles put you on one side of a wall. Close to the customer, your product insights die in a backlog. Close to the product, the real problems never reach you. Here, there is no wall.

Industrial organizations run complex, layered architectures built over decades. Getting Fabriq to operate inside that reality connected, trusted, and adopted across sites is what this role is built around.

This is an engineering role. You’ll spend time with customers, but you came from a technical seat (SWE, Solution Engineer, Software Architect, SRE, DevOps), and you’ll keep one foot in the codebase. You design integrations, you ship product contributions, you stay close to the system until it runs.

What you’ll do

1. Pre-sales : make technical conversations the reason deals close Work alongside Account Executives on technical sales motion. Demos, security and infra reassurance, integration scoping, mapping prospect environments, removing technical blockers. You’re the engineer in the room when the conversation gets real.

2. Post-sales : turn integrations into running systems Once a customer signs, you go deep. Workflows, systems, constraints. You derive the use case, design the architecture, and adapt to what the customer actually has (no internal tech team? Route to an integrator or a no-code path). You don’t build their integrations for them, you architect the solution and steer the customer until it runs in production.

3. Product contribution : the part that defines this role Patterns emerge across accounts. The same platform limit blocking the same category of value. You see it first, qualify the use case and the business value, and you build through it. Direct contribution to the codebase. Right now, that means deep involvement in our API rebuild, a major project that’s about to reshape how Fabriq integrates with customer ecosystems. The integration capabilities you ship expand what Fabriq can sell, deploy, and deliver.

4. On-prem deployments (occasional, defense sector) A handful of deployments per year (max 5 over the next 18 months, France and potentially UK) in air-gapped, locked-down environments defense customers. Some deployments require security clearance eligibility.

Background4+ years owning technical outcomes end to end, the person accountable for whether it works, not just a contributorEngineering background is non-negotiable: software engineering, solution engineering, software architecture, SRE, DevOps, or a similar technical seat. Bonus if you’ve moved into customer-facing technical rolesYou’ve designed systems at scale that others built and depended on in productionYou’ve been in pre-sales conversations where your technical judgment was the deciding factorYou’ve shipped to a real product codebase, integration capabilities that changed what the platform could doTechnicalDeep familiarity with enterprise integration patterns, authentication protocols, event-driven architectures, on-premise deployment, and the judgment to design under real constraintsStrong networking and operating system fundamentals; comfortable deploying and operating in Linux and Kubernetes environments, including air-gapped industrial infrastructureYou write production-grade code across integrations, deployment tooling, and platform extensionsNo specific framework or stack requirements; we care about depth and judgmentHow you workYou listen until you find the problem underneath the problem, then you know exactly what it’s worth to solve itProactive by default, you don’t wait for ambiguity to be resolved, you resolve itYou communicate with precision across technical and non-technical audiences, in writing and in the roomYou keep complex integrations on track across timelines, stakeholders, and competing prioritiesYou make the people around you sharper, you share what you learn, you document what worksFluent French and EnglishManufacturing experience is a plus. Curiosity about operational environments and the instinct to find where real value lives - that’s what this role runs on.

What we offer

• 60-90K€ package, depending on experience
• 7 weeks PTO
• 100% Alan health coverage, zero copay
• 10€ Swile meal vouchers per worked day
• Up to 2 weeks/year work-from-anywhere
• 2 days/week onsite in Paris (10e), flexibility on the rest
• Quarterly onsites
• Annual offsite