Job overview

Soldered Electronics has over 40 people across three business units, and a lot of manual work that AI can help reduce or even remove. We are looking for someone to make that happen, not just suggest it. It means that you understand how business operates and what efficiency really means; while having a technical understanding and a swiss knife of solutions under your belt. "Forward Deployed AI Engineer" might be a similar role as this one.

You work with every department, all the time. You map where time and quality are lost in sales, quoting, supply chain, manufacturing, support, product development; basically everywhere, and create a strategy what to change. Together with the management you confirm the priorities on a regular cadence, making sure your team always works on what brings the most efficiency or quality improvement at that moment. After that, you run the projects to place these improvements into action.

This is a strategic role but also includes a lot of hands-on work. There is another person working on software development that is part of your team and owns part of the operational side, including ongoing development, maintenance and running what is already live. You build prototypes, automations and integrations yourself, decide together with the Team what you build and what they take over, and train people hands on, inside their own work.

Key responsibilities

• Mapping where time and quality are lost across sales, quoting, supply chain, support, manufacturing and product development

• Agreeing priorities with management on a regular cadence, and getting the AI strategy ready

• Building prototypes, automations and integrations yourself, including into ClickUp, Odoo ERP, our PIM and other internal tools

• Working with the Team on what you build together and what they take over for ongoing development and maintenance

• Training people hands on, inside their own work, and building shared workflows and playbooks that teams actually use

• Measuring AI adoption and efficiency gains per department, and reporting to management every week

• Saying no to AI ideas that do not save time or improve quality

KPIs

The following KPIs define success for this role. We don’t expect them on day one, but these are the targets you will be measured against:

• Within 30 days: a map of the highest value processes and a prioritized plan approved by management

• Within 3 months: first integrations live and in use in at least two departments, with measured adoption and efficiency gains

• Ongoing: measured increase in AI adoption and efficiency per department, tracked and reported weekly

• Within 12 months: AI use embedded in how every team works, with numbers to prove it

You are

• Genuinely excited with what AI can do and its progress

• Someone numbers come naturally to. You track, measure and analyse what you have done without being asked, and you make decisions based on data

• A hands-on builder who can show working automations, integrations or AI tools you built yourself, using LLMs, APIs and workflow tools

• Technically strong enough to judge what is feasible and challenge estimates from engineers

• Comfortable working dynamically with many teams at once

• A clear communicator with both engineers and non-technical colleagues

• Good with spoken and written English

• A plus: experience leading process change or digital transformation in a company where operations matter, for example manufacturing

We are

• A fast-growing electronics company with in-house development and manufacturing

• Shipping 200+ products to customers and distributors in 85+ countries

• A team with high standards, minimal bureaucracy, and zero micromanagement

• A company that has already decided AI matters, and needs someone to make it happen

What we offer

Besides the benefits that every modern company offers, we also offer:

• Real authority to drive change across all three business units

• A team to deliver with, including the people already building our internal software

• Work on real processes, in real departments, with results you can measure within weeks, not years

• A lean environment focused on growth, feedback, and continuous improvement

• Planned work start date in January 2027.

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You want to be the reason AI actually changes how Soldered works, not just talks about it? Apply on this page!