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As an FDSE, you will directly impact our customers’ ability to achieve these goals by interpreting their needs, developing software solutions from concept to delivery, and ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction. Your days could range from working with a customer's engineers to design a new feature that automates a laborious process to being the point person in debugging an issue blocking their production team.\nResponsibilities & Duties\nServe as a deployed technical expert, providing hands-on assistance with the implementation, usage, and further development of ION.\nCollaborate with customers to understand their most pressing problems to develop coherent strategies & intelligent solutions (build custom web apps, wrangle large-scale data, etc)\nHave total ownership in developing and managing the delivery of solutions, while maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction.\nWrite clean, scalable, and easily maintainable code across the stack\nWork in small teams, taking ownership of end-to-end execution of high-stakes projects\nCollaborate with the First Resonance team to continuously improve the product based on customer feedback and requirements.\nMinimum Qualifications & Skills\nStrong engineering background in fields like Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, or Data Science\nExcellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a strong ability to build relationships with different stakeholders (customers, their leadership and First Resonance teams)\nExperience shipping production quality code\nAbility to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals in dynamic environments\nWillingness to travel up to 40% to customer sites, as needed.\nDesired Qualifications\nExperience in manufacturing, as Product Manager, or Lead Engineer\nExperience with Python and/or React (Typescript)\nExperience or curiosity in working with large-scale data to solve customer-facing problems\nComfortable working in a fast-paced, startup-like atmosphere with an entrepreneurial spirit\nBenefits & Perks\nHealth Insurance; medical, vision, dental, & life insurance.\nPaid Parental Leave.\nEmployee Stock Option Plan.\nTeam outings, group lunches, open office, happy hours.\nPaid holidays, sick days.\nFlexible Friday and PTO.\n401K.\nFirst Resonance is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce.\nFirst Resonance participates in E-Verify. 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