Forward Deployment Engineer, Flock Safety
Aviation
$130-175k
+ Equity in the form of stock options
Public safety operating system
Be an early applicant
Public safety operating system
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$130-175k
+ Equity in the form of stock options
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- Weâre looking for someone who thrives in dynamic, technical environments, a problem-solver who can balance deep technical troubleshooting with clear communication
- Flexibility, curiosity, and composure under pressure are essential, as some on-call support and cross-team coordination are part of the role
- Bachelorâs degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Aviation Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Strong programming and scripting skills in Go, Powershell, or TypeScript
- Experience with flight networking systems (preferred in secure or regulated environments like aviation, law enforcement, or defense)
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Demonstrated ability to analyze complex technical problems, especially involving hardware/software integration in field environments
- Excellent communication skills for cross-functional coordination with non-technical aviation stakeholders
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across systems, integrations, and APIs
- Proficiency in querying and analyzing data (SQL)
- Experience with reporting and visualization tools (Grafana, PowerBI, Tableau)
- Understanding of networking fundamentals (e.g., VPNs, firewalls, routing)
- Prior client-facing or consulting experience in aviation, law enforcement, defense, or critical infrastructure
- Driven by impact and mission readiness. Able to jump in when customers or field systems need critical support, even outside normal hours
- Knowledge of aviation drone standards, such as FAA Part 107
- Feeling uneasy that you havenât ticked every box? Thatâs okay; weâve felt that way too
- Studies have shown women and minorities are less likely to apply unless they meet all qualifications. We encourage you to break the status quo and apply to roles that would make you excited to come to work every day
What the job involves
- As a Forward Deployment Engineer at Flock Safety, youâll serve as the technical bridge between our customers, Customer Success, and Engineering teams
- Youâll be the first point of technical escalation, diagnosing and resolving complex issues, validating bugs, and ensuring that our core engineering teams can stay focused on product innovation
- This role sits within the engineering organization and blends software engineering, systems integration, and direct customer interaction
- Youâll work hands-on with law enforcement and aviation partners, translating technical details into clear, actionable guidance and ensuring our systems run reliably in mission-critical environments
- The First 30 Days:
- Immerse yourself in Flockâs aviation products, compliance requirements, and integration landscape
- Shadow live drone deployments to understand real-world challenges and system dependencies
- Begin facilitating onboarding and training for aviation partners with support from senior engineers
- Identify and document integration templates and repeatable processes for aviation environments
- The First 60 Days:
- Independently own deployment onboarding tasks
- Refine and improve aviation-specific documentation, training, and integration playbooks
- Optimize data flow and performance tuning for deployed systems
- 90 Days & Beyond:
- Support a small deployment end-to-end independently
- Develop internal aviation integration guides and toolkits to enable scalable growth
- Partner with product and compliance teams to influence aviation-specific feature development
Our take
Public vehicle surveillance provides valuable insights to emergency services for the prevention of crime, but bringing information together to create leads is difficult. There's no standardised system for inter-city vehicle surveillance, and this makes it difficult for communities and law enforcement services to work together.
Flock Safety provides surveillance equipment that aims to improve the abilities of law enforcement and homeowner associations to communicate data with each other. The company focuses on vehicle surveillance, innovating on existing technology by using machine learning to categorise vehicles by color, license plate, state, and other data points.
Whilst automated surveillance equipment is used daily within federal police forces, Flock Safety builds technology systems that provide a means for smaller law enforcement agencies to quantify and share surveillance data easily. It's caught on too, with a funding round of $275 million awarded in 2025 that will be used to expand its manufacturing capabilities. lock Safety, a U.S. startup developing surveillance technology, has raised $275 million in new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, as it invests in a manufacturing facility and expands into drone products, the company told Reuters. funding behind it, This data can then be automatically processed to help develop leads, a time-consuming process that would usually have to be completed manually.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Mar 2025
$275m
LATE VC
Mar 2024
$200m
SERIES G
Total funding: $857.8m
Company benefits
- đ´Use what you need PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays and your birthday off!
- âď¸Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match
- đŞFamily Leave: We provide 16 weeks of 100% paid leave for primary caregivers and 12 weeks of 100% paid leave for secondary caregivers
- đźFertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. We will reimburse $10,000 a year for adoption, surrogacy, or infertility
- đ§ Mental Health: All employees receive an annual subscription to Headspace
- đCaregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support
- đ¸Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions
- đťWFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home
- đL&D Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more
- đ Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office
- đ˘Coworking Space: If youâre not local to our ATL HQ, weâll provide $250 a month to get you set up with an All Access Membership to WeWork (or a local coworking space in your area)
- đžPet Insurance: Weâve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employeeâs fur babies
Company HQ
Home Park, Atlanta, GA
Leadership
Garrett Langley
(Founder & CEO)They worked in Computer Services freelance for over 6 years before joining Firethorn in 2015, and Clutch Technologies in 2014. They left their position as President of Moment LLC to found Flock Safety in April 2017.
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