Forward Deployed Engineer

Ohm is an enterprise AI platform that helps engineering teams transform how they develop, test, and validate physical products.

Cursor and Claude Code reimagined how software products are developed. Our mission is to address the next frontier: artificial intelligence that reimagines how physical products are developed.

Every complex physical product - a battery cell, an electric vehicle, a wearables device - is developed through a process that generates enormous quantities of data, almost none of which is used to its potential. This is an opportunity that AI was built to solve.

We are recruiting for exceptional scientists, engineers and operators to join our mission to reimagine how products are engineered in the next decade.

The opportunity

Your role is to develop and ship the technical capabilities that will deliver the greatest measurable ROI for Ohm's customers. You will use AI tools to operate independently without a traditional R&D-to-engineering handoff.

You bring the domain knowledge to identify what to build, the engineering capability to build it, and the commercial instinct to prioritize the changes that compound customer value fastest.

You will work directly with the Head of Engineering, and the test and validation engineers at Ohm's customer accounts. You will write code, deploy analysis and planning capabilities, and own the engineering validity of production systems.

What you will do

• Build and own the test planning, execution, and analysis capabilities at the core of Ohm's platform, deployed in live customer programs where their output drives real qualification and release decisions.

• Work directly with customers to understand and overcome their hardest test and validation challenges: schedule risk, test coverage, resource allocation, requirements traceability.

• Build the domain knowledge infrastructure that makes Ohm's agentic analysis credible at the level of the most technically demanding validation programs.

• Bring frontier test and validation workflows into the platform before customers ask for it. This could include optimal test plan design, accelerated qualification, data-driven coverage analysis, translated into production capabilities with measurable customer impact.

What you'll need

• Experience running test and validation programs.You have owned T&V programs for complex hardware, e.g. cell qualification, pack validation, environmental and reliability testing, or equivalent programs in aerospace, medical devices, or defense. You have lived the tension between schedule, cost, and coverage, and made the calls when they conflicted.

• Test engineering fluency.Design of experiments, reliability engineering, statistical inference on test data, and requirements-driven test planning — you know how to answer the engineering question with the minimum samples and channel-hours.

• Production code mindset.You write Python that runs in production, and you hold yourself to the standard that your analyses are correct when a customer makes a qualification decision based on them.

• AI-native.You use AI coding tools as your primary workflow. You have thought carefully about where AI can accelerate engineering test programs, and can give examples of how you are using AI to do so.

What will set you apart

• Depth in accelerated life testing and optimal test plan design. You can spot an over-built or under-powered test program on sight.

• A point of view on where the industry's standard approaches to validation are incomplete, and what modern hardware development should do instead.

• Concrete examples of using AI to accelerate hardware test and validation.

Wondering if you’re a good fit? We believe in investing in our teammates, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams, even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match. If some of what we've outlined about describes you, we’d love to hear from you.