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About the Role

Forward Deployed Engineers are the bridge between Ironsite and the field. You'll be on jobsites, in trailers, and alongside crews — standing up deployments, earning the trust of the people wearing our hardware, and making sure the data coming back is good enough to change how a project runs. This is not a desk job, and it is not a traditional software role. It's closer to being an embedded operator: you own a deployment end to end, from the first site walk through the first weeks of capture, and you're the person the contractor calls when something needs to work. The best people in this seat come from the field. They know what a framing crew's morning actually looks like, they can read a schedule, and they can hold a conversation with a superintendent and an engineer in the same hour. You'll work in tight coordination with our Ground Truth, Hardware, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams — and what you learn on site directly shapes what we build next.

Responsibilities

Own deployments end to end
Travel to jobsites across the country to deploy, configure, and support cases of Ironsite devices
Run pre-deployment site walks: assess site conditions, safety requirements, crew size and composition, and logistics, then translate those findings into a workable deployment plan
Stand up on-site infrastructure — connectivity, charging and docking locations, device storage and security — and solve the physical problems that come with real construction sites
Lead deployment readiness reviews with internal stakeholders and drive open items to closure before Day 1
Build trust with crews and contractor leadership
Onboard craft workers to the hardware: fit devices, explain what we do and don't capture, and answer honest questions honestly
Serve as the day-to-day point of contact for superintendents, project engineers, and self-perform leads
Read the room on a jobsite. Adoption depends on the crew believing this helps them, and that's earned in person
Turn field work into product
Partner with the Ground Truth team to make sure our activity taxonomy reflects what's actually happening on site — the trades, sequences, and edge cases that generic categories miss
Map capture back to the contractor's own work breakdown structure and labor codes so findings connect to cost and schedule, not just video
Feed structured observations back to Hardware, Engineering, and AI. You'll be the reason a mount gets redesigned or a model gets retrained
Keep the fleet healthy
Manage device inventory, charging cadence, firmware, and pack-out across concurrent deployments
Diagnose and resolve hardware and connectivity issues in the field, often without a second set of hands
Document what you learn so the next deployment goes faster than the last

Requirements

1–5 years of construction field experience — as a foreman, superintendent, project engineer, field engineer, craft worker, or similar
Broad exposure across general trades. You can walk a site and understand what's in front of you, whether it's framing, concrete, MEP, or finishes
Wide availability to travel. This role requires frequent, sometimes short-notice travel to jobsites nationwide, including multi-day and multi-week deployments
Comfort working in active construction environments — outdoors, in varied weather, at height, and in compliance with site-specific safety requirements
Strong communication across audiences. You can brief a GC's leadership in the morning and troubleshoot with a crew at lunch
High autonomy and sound judgment. You'll frequently be the only Ironsite person on site, making calls in real time
Valid driver's license and ability to travel domestically without restriction
Bilingual (English / Spanish). A large share of the crews we work with are Spanish-speaking, and being able to onboard someone in their first language materially changes adoption
Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, or a related field
Familiarity with scheduling, WBS/cost-code structures, or labor productivity analysis
OSHA 10 / OSHA 30, or willingness to obtain
Experience with hardware deployment, field IT, or networking (Starlink, cellular, mesh)
Comfort with data tools — spreadsheets, SQL, or light scripting — to make sense of your own deployments

Skills

Construction field experience
General trades knowledge
Communication
Autonomy
Judgment
Bilingual (English / Spanish)
Scheduling
WBS/cost-code structures
Labor productivity analysis
Hardware deployment
Field IT
Networking
Data tools (spreadsheets, SQL, scripting)

Location

San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Texas (Austin / Dallas–Fort Worth)
Washington, DC / Northern Virginia

Work Type

Full-time
Travel required

Experience Level

1-5 years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, or a related field
OSHA 10 / OSHA 30, or willingness to obtain

Salary/Compensations

$75,000 – $125,000 per year

Benefits

Meaningful early-stage equity
Travel fully covered, with per diem
Health, dental, and vision coverage
Company hardware and field gear

About the Company

Construction is one of the most complex and labor-intensive industries in the world. It spends roughly $7 trillion a year on labor — and loses an estimated $1.6 trillion a year to productivity gaps, largely because the tools used to manage the work haven't meaningfully changed in decades. Most project decisions are still made from clipboards, daily reports, and secondhand accounts of what happened in the field. Ironsite is closing that gap. We put wearable cameras on hard hats and vests, then combine expert human labeling with AI vision-language models to turn raw jobsite footage into a clear, quantitative picture of how work actually gets done. Our customers use that picture to reduce labor costs, improve safety outcomes, and deliver projects faster.
50,000+ hours of construction footage captured across 7 states
We work with some of the largest general contractors and self-perform builders in the United States, and we're building the team to scale nationwide.

Equal Opportunity

Ironsite is an equal opportunity employer. We're committed to building a team that reflects the industry we serve, and we welcome applicants of every background, identity, and experience.