Forward Deployed Engineer, Matta
Sales, Solutions & Integration
3+ days a week in office (Old Street, London)
AI copilots for advanced manufacturing
Posted today
AI copilots for advanced manufacturing
1-20 employees
Posted today
3+ days a week in office (Old Street, London)
1-20 employees
Company mission
We're replacing the entire design-engineer-build workflow with AI to cut waste and boost efficiency. Join us to build and deploy cutting-edge AI solutions in manufacturing.
Role
Who you are
- A practical problem solver: you can pull on your expertise to solve hairy engineering challenges in real-world environments
- Ideally you don’t just problem solve, but love being customer facing, and can craft world-class customer experiences (the manufacturing sector deserves Apple-esque experiences!)
- People person: you’re comfortable being the face of Matta, interfacing with prospective customers at trade shows (most often lovely 50-year old technicians called Kevin)
- You’ve built or deployed projects from start to finish, overcoming hurdles and shipping brilliant products (in startups? even better) and you are a bit batty and want to learn more!
- Highly collaborative: you love working in teams, sharing knowledge, mentoring/teaching others, and embracing feedback (and yes, you’re always game for a team Lego-building break)
Desirable
- Ideally (but not essential), you have a Master's in engineering / manufacturing / industrial systems, or may come from a sector specific related background like automotive or aero
- Bonus: you’re open to travel (~10-20% time) to trade shows and customers, to kick start our expansion into Europe and the US
What the job involves
- We’re hiring our first Forward Deployed Engineer to lead the charge on implementing and operationalising our AI solutions in factories. You’ll be the person who makes our tech real for our customers – and makes sure it actually works
- This is a full-stack role – but not just technically! You’ll work across the entire customer journey, doing the jobs of multiple people and specialties in one: engaging prospective customers, qualifying leads, scoping problems, deploying solutions, and fixing things when they break (and they will break). No two days will be the same!
- One week, you’ll be the face of Matta, responsible for engaging with engineers and technicians at trade shows, bringing in leads alongside our CEO, Doug (and keeping him on track!). You’ll leverage your understanding of our customer’s challenges, to qualify and validate their interest in the Matta product. The next, you’ll be deep in a factory, perhaps figuring out why our system is picking up too much static interference, or how to optimise the lighting to improve our images. You’ll roll up your sleeves and get problems sorted – collaborating with our backend, frontend, and research teams to ship fixes and redesign product features based on customer feedback
- This isn’t a role with a playbook – you’ll shape how Matta scales deployments across the UK, Europe, and the US. And this isn’t your typical gig—expect to work hard and collaborate with an exceptional team of top engineers, scientists, and builders, all obsessed with embodied AI reshaping the manufacturing world
Application process
- Apply with your profile (plus we like surprises)
- 30 min, video call with Doug, Cofounder & CEO
- 1 hr, meet the team @the office
- 30 min, session with Sebastian, Matt or Tom
Salary benchmarks
Our take
In the landscape of modern manufacturing, traditional methods struggle to keep pace with the demands of advanced manufacturing, leading to inefficiencies, errors, and resource wastage.
Matta emerges with an innovative approach, which leverages years of groundbreaking research in AI control of manufacturing processes. By creating AI copilots specifically tailored for various manufacturing domains, Matta allows operators to excel at what they do best while automating repetitive, error-prone tasks. Through machine learning models trained on the expertise of seasoned operators, Matta's copilots identify and rectify errors in real-time, optimising production runs and mitigating resource wastage.
Partnering with leading academic institutions, Matta is positioned to unveil even more sophisticated AI tools that push the boundaries of what's possible in manufacturing.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Company HQ
Old Street, London
Leadership
Douglas Brion
(Co-Founder & CEO)Award winning engineer from the University of Cambridge, and Enterprise Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Owns (and plays!) over 25 musical instruments.
Sebastian Pattinson
(Co-Founder)Associate Professor in engineering at the University of Cambridge, developing self-learning manufacturing systems. Previously, worked at Google X and MIT. Huge fan of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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