Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer - Industrial Construction

• Department: Strategic Engineering

• Hiring manager: James Trebesch, Head of Strategic Engineering

• Location: Palo Alto, California office, with regular travel to customer sites

• Type: Full-time

The role

Remanie.ai is building software that turns AI data-center requirements into a standardized configuration, a bill of materials, and a solution customers can buy. We then coordinate delivery through outside engineering firms, equipment vendors, and contractors. Data centers are where we're starting, with robotics and advanced industry on the roadmap too.

You'll be our engineer in the field. Once a project moves into construction, you're the person on site making sure what gets built matches what we designed and sold. That means owning construction administration, keeping contractors and vendors moving, and catching problems before they turn into schedule slips or change orders.

Think of it as a forward deployed engineer for physical infrastructure. You sit with the customer and the build team, solve problems in real time, and bring what you learn back to the team so the next site goes faster. Everything you see in the field feeds our standards and our software.

What you'll do

• Own construction administration on customer projects: RFIs, submittals, change orders, field reports, and punch lists.

• Be on site through key phases, working directly with GCs, trades, vendors, and the customer's team.

• Hold contractors and vendors to our design standards, and push back when field changes would compromise performance, cost, or schedule.

• Track equipment deliveries, installation, and commissioning so long-lead gear shows up and gets set right the first time.

• Spot problems early, figure out the fix with our engineers and outside firms, and drive it to closure.

• Bring field lessons home: feed what breaks, what's slow, and what works back into our reference designs, BOMs, and software.

• Help build the playbooks, checklists, and tools that make every site easier to deliver than the last.

What we're looking for

• 7+ years in construction administration, field engineering, or owner's rep work on large industrial, mission-critical, or energy projects.

• Real time on job sites, ideally through at least one data center, substation, or similarly complex build from groundbreaking to commissioning.

• Strong working knowledge of electrical, mechanical, and civil systems, enough to read drawings, question contractors, and know when something's off.

• Comfort leading in the field without formal authority: you get GCs, trades, and vendors aligned and moving.

• Clear, fast communication with customers and internal engineers, in writing and on site.

• Willingness to travel regularly to customer sites.

• Interest in working closely with software engineers. Coding isn't required.

Nice to have

• PE license or construction management certification (CCM). Preferred, not required.

• Experience on the owner, developer, or EPC side of hyperscale or AI data-center builds.

• Background in commissioning or startup of power and cooling systems.

• Experience turning field lessons into standards, templates, or process improvements other teams reuse.

Compensation and benefits

Base salary, depending on level:

• Senior: $170,000–$230,000

• Staff: $215,000–$275,000

Both come with significant equity. We also offer medical, dental and vision coverage, flexible PTO, daily meals, and whatever AI tools you need.