We are building a new category
Every product a manufacturer ships is the result of thousands of engineering decisions about architecture, physics, components and trade-offs. Today those decisions are scattered across documents, spreadsheets and people’s heads. The software around them only stores the outcome.
SourcePilot is the decision layer for engineering in manufacturing companies. It is where customer intent becomes architecture, physics becomes sized components, and every decision traces back to the requirements. From that layer, specifications flow downstream to CAD, simulation and procurement, and they stay live as products change. Most tools organise engineering data. SourcePilot does the engineering, delivering requirements, variants, change requests and optimisations as finished work.
Why this role matters
A new category is proven in the field, not in a pitch deck. As a Forward-Deployed Engineer, you are the person who proves it. You will work inside leading manufacturers alongside their engineers, take their real products and hardest engineering problems, and make SourcePilot the place where their engineering decisions get made. What you learn in the field will directly shape what the product becomes.
What you will own
Deliver results customers can’t ignore
- Lead technical delivery of pilots and deployments, from the first workshop to production use.
- Translate customer requirements, products and engineering workflows into working SourcePilot models and measurable results.
- Become the trusted technical counterpart to customer systems engineers, engineering leaders and IT.
Connect the decision layer to the enterprise engineering stack
- Build integrations with leading PLM platforms and requirements-management tools, so the platforms customers have invested in become more valuable with SourcePilot on top.
- Work with interchange standards and APIs such as ReqIF, OSLC and vendor REST APIs, keeping traceability, versions and baselines intact.
- Meet customers’ security and IT requirements during deployment, working with our platform team.
Shape the product and the category
- Turn what you build for one customer into reusable components, connectors and playbooks for all of them.
- Bring field insight straight into product priorities.
- Lead technical demos, proofs of concept and solution design alongside the founders.
Who we are looking for
We hire very few people, and only the most ambitious and talented. You are an engineer who can sit with a customer’s chief engineer in the morning and ship production code in the afternoon. You go looking for the hardest problem in the room. You own outcomes, not tasks, and you want to be part of defining how industrial products are engineered for the next decade. If you want a comfortable role, this isn’t it.
We operate as an AI-native company. Our engineers work with fleets of agents, build the loops that make them better, and expect their own output to grow every quarter. If you don’t yet work this way, this isn’t the role.
Must have
- Exceptional software engineering skills; you ship production code, not only prototypes
- You use agents to compress delivery, going from a customer’s messy data and requirements to a working integration or model in days, and you turn each delivery into reusable automation
- Credible and confident in front of customers, from engineers to senior leadership
- Thrives in ambiguity: you scope it, build it and own the result
- Willing to travel to customer sites
Strong plus
- Hands-on with major PLM or ALM/requirements platforms and their APIs
- Engineering background (mechanical, electrical, mechatronics, systems) or deep experience with industrial engineering processes, systems engineering or MBSE; ReqIF, OSLC or STEP
- Prior forward-deployed, solutions-engineering or technical-consulting role
- German or French language skills
- Experience in automotive, aerospace, rail, energy or machinery
What you get
- Frontline ownership of how a new category reaches the market.
- The hardest problems at the point where AI, physics and industrial engineering meet, across many products and industries.
- A small, exceptional team with direct access to the founders.
- Competitive salary and participation in the company’s equity scheme.
How to apply
Send your CV or LinkedIn profile to hello@sourcepilot.ai, with a few lines about a time you took a hard, messy customer problem all the way to a working solution.