Forward Deployed Engineer, Relex
Fresh
Supply chain & retail planning platform
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Supply chain & retail planning platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase adaptability and efficiency in the consumer goods value chain
Role
Who you are
- Deep Engineering experience in a related field
- Strong understanding of machine learning fundamentals and proven experience deploying machine learning or AI solutions into production environments
- Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern data stacks
- Strong business acumen, with the ability to translate technical work into measurable financial impact as well as to communicate it
- Comfortable managing ambiguity and taking full ownership of outcomes
- Comfortable with using AI in your everyday work and developing the use of AI tools as a larger organizational strategy
What the job involves
- We are looking for our first Forward Deployed Engineer to be embedded with RELEX fastest-growing market
- You will be the technical face of RELEX Fresh to grocery retailers, combining engineering ability with real customer presence
- As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will own high-impact AI deployments from pre-sales to production. You will work directly with customers, ensuring our solutions deliver measurable business outcomes
- Own customer Proof of Concepts (POCs) end-to-end, from scoping and technical design to validation and measurable ROI
- Manage multiple parallel pilots, ensuring clear timelines, stakeholder alignment, and strong conversion to long-term partnerships
- Partner closely with Sales to translate business needs into technical solutions and support deal closing
- Collaborate with Engineers to deliver production-ready AI
- Deploy machine learning applications (forecasting, optimization, automated decision-making) into live customer environments
Our take
Relex offers a software platform deployed by retailers to help decide which products to buy and when. By leveraging AI-driven demand forecasts, and by automating retail supply chains, grocers are empowered to meet consumer demand whilst reducing food waste.
Retail food waste accounts for a good chunk of the millions of tonnes of food wasted each year, contributing a significant amount to global greenhouse gas emissions. With Relex, retailers can greatly reduce their own impact to this problem - which is becoming increasingly attractive in the wake of accelerating environmental concerns.
Boasting a valuation in the billions, and serving renowned clientele such as Lidl, Marks & Spencers and WHSmith, it is clear that Relex has found its place in the market. The company has been investing in refining its product so it can better meet retailers’ changing supply chain needs, including with the addition of AI tool Relex-GPT which makes client operations even more efficient.
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Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2022
$590.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$200m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $825.5m
Company benefits
- Hybrid, office and fully remote options (hybrid and office as standard)
- Health Insurance, Occupational Health Services and Employee Assistance Programme
- Modern offices with free snacks, drinks and a warm welcome for dogs
- Two paid charity days every year for volunteering
- An annual bonus
- Two paid team days every year
Company HQ
Pasila, Helsinki, Uusimaa
Leadership
Johanna Småros
(Co-Founder & Chief Sustainability Officer)Formerly worked as both Director and CMO for the company. Before this, spent nearly 7 years at Helsinki University of Technology as a Researcher.
Michael Falck
(Co-Founder)Formerly acted as President of the North America branch of Relex. Has experience in Research at both Helsinki University of Technology and Eindhoven University of Technology.
Mikko Kärkkäinen
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously acted as Project Manager for Helsinki University of Technology and as a Supply Chain Consultant for Sedecon Consulting.
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