Sift
Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure
$150K–$200K + equity (Employer provided)
The FDE model reaches hard-tech. Sift — built by SpaceX, Palantir, and Google alumni out of Dragon/Falcon/Starlink telemetry work — embeds engineers to wire its high-frequency observability platform into rockets, drones, and autonomous machines. $150K–$200K + equity, in-office twice a week. Proof the deployment role isn't only SaaS chat agents: it's moving to physical AI, exactly where TechCrunch says FDE demand shifts next.
Marina del Rey, CA aerospace telemetryhard-techSpaceX DNA