Senior AI Solution Engineer

About this role

## About Formant

Formant builds AI that helps the world's largest factories make sense of their alarms. Semiconductor fabs, manufacturing plants, and critical infrastructure generate hundreds of alerts a day — and the people who know how to interpret them are retiring faster than they can be replaced. We embed with customers to learn their operations, then build AI that automatically triages and prioritizes alarms so operators can focus on what actually matters. Our data compounds with every site and every customer. We're pre-PMF, well-funded through mid-2027, and at the stage where every hire shapes what this company becomes.

As a Series A startup, we value builders who thrive in ambiguity, move quickly, and care deeply about customer outcomes.

## The Role

We're hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer — a technically elite, customer-obsessed builder who operates as a startup within a startup.

This is not a traditional implementation or solutions engineering role. The Sr. FDE is Formant's Pathfinder: the person who goes first, goes deep, and shapes how our AI-powered platform gets adopted across some of the world's most complex industrial environments. You'll own the full arc of an enterprise engagement — from initial discovery through onsite bootcamp, POC, pilot, and production deployment — while maintaining trusted relationships from end users all the way to the C-suite.

You will be supported by a team of other FDEs and Engineers to implement the customer strategy and solution.

You'll be Formant's most direct line to what our product needs to become. The insights you surface in the field will shape our roadmap, our blueprints, and how we scale every engagement that follows.

What You'll Do

### Pathfinding & Discovery

• Lead onsite **discovery bootcamps** with enterprise customers — living in their environment, learning their operations, and surfacing requirements that no requirements doc could capture
• Define measurable succ...