Forward Deployed Engineer
INDG | Grip
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇳🇱 Netherlands
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
JavaScriptPythonTypeScript
About the role
- The Deployment (Architecting the Engine) Ingest & Configure: You will take the client’s "Digital Twins" (3D product models) and marketing assets, ingesting them into the Grip ecosystem.
- Define the Logic: You will organize the configuration of the "Brain" of the system. You will write and codify the logic that dictates how content adapts.
- Build the Pipelines: Set up the workflows that combine 3D renders, 2D layers, and AI-generated elements into a final, photorealistic image.
- Art Direction as Code: You will translate the client’s visual identity (Style Guides) into algorithmic rules that the platform follows automatically (e.g., "Always ensure the logo has 20px padding" or "Never crop the product hero shot").
- Client Embedding & Strategy (Problem Solving in the Client Environment) The Technical Diplomat: You will work directly with the client's Marketing Ops and Creative Directors.
- Feedback Loop: You are the eyes and ears of our product team. When you find a complex scenario that Grip can't handle yet, you prototype a fix and feed that requirement back to our Core Engineering team.
- Knowledge Capture & Scale (Turning Solutions into Systems) Codify What Works: You will capture the data, logic patterns, and tooling you create in the field - documenting not just what was built, but why it works.
- Operationalize Learning: You will help formalize best practices for ingesting content, restructuring data, and defining logic so that Grip deployments become faster, more consistent, and more powerful over time.
- Raise the Bar: By systematizing hard-won solutions, you will continuously raise the technical maturity of how Grip is deployed in real-world environments.
Requirements
- Strong Technical Foundation : You are proficient in Python or Javascript/Typescript for writing automation scripts and configuring JSON/YAML logic
- Data Wrangling: Comfortable with APIs, CSVs, and structuring product data (PIM/DAM integration).
- Builder Mentality : You don’t wait for perfect requirements. You prototype, test, and iterate.
- Visual Tech Fluency (nice to have): Familiarity with the concepts of CGI & 3D Pipelines .
- Pattern Recognition: You can look at a manual Photoshop process and instantly visualize how to turn it into a for loop.
- Creative Empathy: You can talk to a Creative Director and respect their need for "visual perfection" while explaining technical constraints.
- Resilience: You thrive in the "Fog of War" during a deployment. When the data is messy or the workflow is broken, you fix it.
- Customer-Facing Confidence : You can explain technical trade-offs to both engineers and executives—without arrogance or fluff.
- Bias for Reality : You would rather build something scrappy that works than present something beautiful that doesn’t.
Benefits
- Autonomy
- High Impact
- The Frontier
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
PythonJavascriptTypescriptJSONYAMLAPIsCSVPIMDAMCGI
Soft skills
problem solvingcreativitycommunicationresiliencecustomer-facingempathypattern recognitionbuilder mentalityfeedbackoperationalization