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SharkNinja

Designs household appliances for everyday tasks

Forward Deployed Engineer

AI Application EngineeringUpdated on Nov 11
Full-timeNeedham, MA, USA$180k - $300k /yrIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience building and deploying production software, data products, or automation used by business teams.
  • Experience in consumer packaged goods, consumer products, retail, manufacturing, or another environment requiring an understanding of end-to-end business operations.
  • Experience with Python or a similar data analysis language.
  • Strong SQL skills, including database architecture, table creation, procedures, and functions.
  • Commercial acumen to connect technical choices to business value and understand how changes affect teams across the business.
  • Sound engineering practices across testing, security, monitoring, and documentation, including validation of AI outputs.
  • A founder’s mindset: take initiative, navigate uncertainty, move quickly, and stay accountable through adoption and results.

Responsibilities

  • Embed with business teams to understand workflows, decisions, and recurring friction, and identify opportunities with clear commercial value.
  • Turn ambiguous problems into working applications, data products, and automation, iterating directly with users.
  • Integrate enterprise systems and use AI where it improves outcomes, with appropriate validation and human review.
  • Test, deploy, monitor, and maintain solutions with security, data quality, and auditability built in.
  • Put solutions into daily use, establish support ownership, and measure business results.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with Palantir Foundry and AIP, or comparable enterprise data and application platforms.
  • Embedded engineering, business transformation, or product development in a startup or high-growth environment.
  • Experience building intuitive interfaces that simplify complex data and workflows.
  • Snowflake and dbt experience.
  • Experience with production business applications in React.

About the Company

SharkNinja

Designs household appliances for everyday tasks

SharkNinja designs household appliances for consumers, combining Shark cleaning and beauty products with Ninja kitchen equipment. Shark's range includes vacuums, hair styling tools and air purifiers, while Ninja sells blenders, air fryers and coffee machines. Its engineers develop products and oversee quality testing, while outside suppliers assemble the appliances, which the company sells through retailers, distributors and its own websites. Customers use the appliances for tasks from cleaning floors and styling hair to preparing meals and making frozen desserts. Its operating roots date to 1994 in Montreal, and its global headquarters is in Needham, Massachusetts.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Needham, MA
Founded
1994

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