Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

📋 Description

• • The Staff Forward Deployed Engineer at SandboxAQ is a critical technical role that bridges cutting-edge quantum navigation research with real-world defense and commercial applications, ensuring AQNav technology performs reliably in operational environments.
• • Day to day, the engineer will deploy and validate AQNav on operational platforms, analyze multi-sensor data from field tests, build Python-based analysis tooling, translate technical performance into stakeholder narratives, lead field integrations with mission systems, and represent AQNav in customer engagements and conferences.
• • SandboxAQ is a high-growth AI company spun out of Alphabet in 2022, delivering Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) to solve complex challenges in defense, life sciences, finance, and cybersecurity, with a mission-driven, collaborative culture focused on innovation and impact.
• • In this role, the engineer will deepen expertise in PNT systems, sensor fusion, and DoD integration, gain visibility with senior defense stakeholders, shape product direction from field insights, and grow as a trusted technical advisor in high-stakes aerospace and autonomous systems environments.