Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA

**This role is located 50% of the time at a client location within the assigned country** Tulip , the leader in AI-native frontline operations, is helping companies around the world equip their workforce with composable, connected apps, leading to higher quality work, improved efficiency, and end-to-end traceability across operations. Tulip’s cloud-native, no-code platform, powered by embedded AI, is driving the digital transformation of industrial environments through composable, human-centric solutions that go beyond disrupting the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) category. A spinoff out of MIT, Tulip is headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices in Germany, Hungary, Singapore, and Israel.

” About You: As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you work directly with manufacturers to design, build, and deploy solutions on Tulip’s Frontline Operations Platform. You operate at the intersection of solution engineering, manufacturing operations, and customer outcomes, translating real shop-floor problems into scalable, production-ready solutions. You will embed with customers at their facility to rapidly implement applications, integrations, and workflows that improve quality, productivity, and traceability across manufacturing operations.

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Key Responsibilities

: Customer-Embedded Solution Delivery Partner with plant-level and corporate stakeholders at a customer’s site (operators, engineers, IT, quality, operations leadership) Lead design, build, and deployment of customer-specific Tulip solutions Work side by side with customers and partners to implement solutions in live manufacturing environments Deploy solutions to live production environments with minimal disruption OT / IT Integration Integrate with shop-floor systems such as PLCs, MES/ERP, and quality systems Work with machine data, events, and production context (orders, materials, routings) Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues spanning software, data, and operational workflows Serve as the technical owner for forward-deployed customer solutions Technical Leadership Enablement Serve as the technical authority during customer deployments Advise on architecture, scalability, security, and reliability in regulated or high-availability environments Document solutions and share learnings across internal teams Communicate and work with broader customer team to strategize for success Product Platform Feedback Represent the voice of the customer to Product and Engineering teams, and collaborate to influence Product roadmap and feature design Help generalize custo