Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

🕒 April 27

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SandboxAQ

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔒 Cybersecurity

💊 Pharmaceuticals

Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity • Pharmaceuticals

SandboxAQ is a company developing quantitative AI and quantum-inspired technologies to solve real-world problems across drug discovery, materials science, cybersecurity, and navigation. They build large quantitative models (LQMs) grounded in physics and chemistry to predict molecular properties, accelerate therapeutic design, and simulate complex chemical and catalytic processes, while also applying their expertise in AI and post-quantum cryptography to enhance digital security and navigation in GPS-denied environments.

📋 Description

• Deploy and validate AQNav on operational platforms • Drive success in-situ, ensuring success in critical test events and demonstrations • Serve as the primary technical partner in business development efforts, presentations, and conferences • Lead the technical side of strategic pursuits and own high-impact customer pilots and presentations • Develop and maintain Python-based pipelines to ingest, clean, and analyze heterogeneous sensor and navigation logs • Convert logs, bias drifts, error growth, and RMSE metrics into concise stories for stakeholders • Turn field observations into well-structured, testable requirements • Guide integration of AQNav with mission computers, flight controllers, and onboard sensors

🎯 Requirements

• Strong understanding of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) principles and modern Alt-PNT approaches • 3+ years in aerospace, defense, or autonomous systems with direct hands-on experience integrating and developing hybrid (software and hardware) products and solutions for the DOD • Strong proficiency in Python for data analysis, signal processing, and visualization • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience presenting to engineers, program managers, and senior leaders • B.S. in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a closely related field (or equivalent practical experience) • Willing and able to travel up to 30%

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions • Retirement savings with company matching • Paid parental leave • Inclusive family-building benefits • Flexile paid time off • Company-wide seasonal breaks • Support for flexible work arrangements that enable sustainable performance