Forward-Deployed Engineer

About Mavria

Mavria’s mission is to build the industrial capacity America needs to lead in AI. We believe that sustaining America’s AI leadership requires an unprecedented expansion of power, manufacturing, supply chains and physical infrastructure.

Our founders are serial entrepreneurs who met at the U.S. Department of Energy, working on some of the country’s hardest energy and infrastructure projects. There, they saw a widening gap: AI labs and cloud providers were racing to scale compute, while the infrastructure underneath them was still built one custom project at a time, on timelines measured in years.

We founded Mavria to close that gap. We are building to industrialize intelligence: turning the physical infrastructure AI runs on into products we manufacture, deploy and improve with every build.

We’re starting with data centers. Our first product, Terrain, is a factory-built data center platform. Terrain 01 is being built in Houston now, and we’ve raised $130M as of October 2026 to accelerate our roadmap.

Terrain is our first product, not the limit of our ambition. We intend to eliminate the physical bottlenecks that constrain American AI leadership and build one of the foundational infrastructure companies of the AI era.

How we build

At Mavria, three principles guide how we work:

• Ambition: We want to build a generational company. To do that, we build capabilities, not just products. Terrain is our first product, not our last – and we seek to eliminate strategic bottlenecks across the entire AI supply chain.

• Urgency: AI moves in weeks, while infrastructure tends to move in years. We match the frontier’s pace by making decisions quickly, building in parallel and securing critical supply ahead of demand. We surface problems early and never compromise on safety or engineering rigor.

• Ownership: When we say we’ll do something, we do it. Keeping our word is how we stand apart, and taking radical ownership over our scope and our domain is how we build trust – internally and externally – while moving fast.

Role scope

As our first forward-deployed engineer, you’ll be the technical lead on Mavria’s customer pursuits, working side by side with our co-founder Seth Cohen. You’ll sit with frontier labs, neoclouds and developers, learn what it takes to bring their compute online, and show them how our Terrain product gets them there.

• Lead technical discovery: Work through a customer’s site, power, cooling and schedule to define what a Terrain deployment looks like for them.

• Drive sales enablement: Embed deeply with our engineering team in Houston to build and own the decks, technical briefs and demos our commercial team sells with, so every claim matches what we’re building.

• Design the solution: Turn customer needs into deployment concepts, technical proposals and RFP responses our commercial team can close on.

• Be the voice of the customer: Bring what you learn in the field back to engineering and manufacturing, so every deployment shapes the next product.

• Carry it through: Stay with each customer from first conversation to signed deal and into deployment, so nothing gets lost at the handoff.

What we're looking for

For this role, we’re interested in an established forward-deployed or deployments professional with the following qualities:

• An engineer first: You have a background in data centers, power, electrical or mechanical systems, and you can go deep with a customer’s engineering team.

• Customer-facing: You’re as comfortable in a boardroom as on a job site, and you can explain technical tradeoffs to engineers and executives alike.

• A problem-finder: You start with open questions and work out what the customer needs, not only what they asked for.

• An owner: You run with little direction and take responsibility for outcomes.

• Ready to travel: You’ll spend real time on both customer sites, Terrain sites, and our Houston manufacturing facilities, up to 50% of the year.

Experience in solutions engineering or a forward-deployed role at an AI, infrastructure, energy, or defense company is especially relevant. We value ability over years or titles.

To apply: Share your background and an example of a technical sale or deployment you led.

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance is 100% paid for the employee

• Retirement Plan with a 3.5% company match

• Flexible time off

Mavria is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Mavria will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with applicable law.