Axion
1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at Axion. Curated with comp bands.
Comp on the board: $220K–$270K + equity.
On the board since Oct 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why Axion
One of the first two engineers on Axion's first FDE team, building AI quality workflows for manufacturers on a strong $220K–$270K + equity band — a rare vertical-AI seat with Boeing and RTX-grade customers.
- FDE type
- True forward-deployed
- Travel
- Medium
- Comp
- Competitive
- Stage
- Growth-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Strong SWEs who want an FDE title and a path in without prior forward-deployed experience
- Engineers with manufacturing, aerospace or supply-chain exposure who can validate AI output against ground-truth source data
- People who prefer vertical depth (quality intelligence) over horizontal platform work
What they do
Axion builds AI-enabled quality intelligence for manufacturers: pulling together the messy defect, supplier and process data that quality teams normally chase by hand. The board notes backing from Bessemer and Salesforce Ventures, with Boeing and RTX listed among backers and customers, which signals aerospace-and-defense-grade buyers with long, serious sales cycles. The wedge is narrow on purpose, and that is the strength.
What “forward deployed” means here
You scope customer use cases, build data integrations, APIs and AI workflows in Python/SQL and TypeScript/React, validate results against source data, and own the deployment. The role reports to the Head of Strategic Accounts with a dotted line to Engineering, so you sit closer to the account than to the product roadmap. Travel is 25–50%, hybrid out of New York or San Francisco.
Comp & leveling
$220K–$270K plus equity is a strong, published band for a growth-stage company and beats most early-stage FDE listings on the board. It is below frontier-lab headline totals but the equity at a company with this investor set is the real kicker. 'Senior' in the title plus a first-team seat suggests leveling will flex with how you shape the function.
Growth signals
This is the company's first FDE team and the listing says you'd be one of the first two engineers, so you're building the playbook. A parallel AI Deployment Strategist opening on the company's Ashby board suggests the deployment function is being staffed as a pair of roles, not a single experiment. Manufacturing buyers move slowly, so expect the payoff to come from depth of integration rather than speed of land.
Analysis updated 2026-10-15
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