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Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer, Spanish Markets
(Los Angeles, Travel Required, ITAR-Eligible)
Location: Los Angeles, CA (onsite)
Company: Soundryx, Inc.
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Soundryx builds rugged, low-cost acoustic sensors that detect small drones and other threats across vast areas.
As our Forward-Deployed Engineer for Spanish Markets, you'll be the technical face of Soundryx in Latin America and Spain.
What You'll Do
- Close deals on the ground: Travel to Spanish-speaking countries to meet with major private infrastructure firms and government agencies, delivering technical presentations and demonstrations.
- Bridge two worlds: Understand complex customer requirements in Spanish and translate them into clear, actionable English specifications for our engineering team.
- Write for impact: Create sales collateral, technical documentation, user manuals, and training materials in Spanish—ensuring our platform is accessible to Spanish-speaking operators.
- Be the technical expert: Answer deep technical questions about acoustic sensing, system architecture, and deployment scenarios in real-time during customer engagements.
- Own the feedback loop: Gather field insights and customer pain points, then work with product and engineering to prioritize features and improvements.
- Deploy and support: Assist with pilot installations, training customer teams, and troubleshooting issues in the field.
What You Know
- Native or fluent Spanish: You can speak, write, and understand technical concepts in Spanish at a professional level.
- Programming foundation: Software engineering experience in at least one popular language--such as Python, JavaScript, C, C++, Go, Rust, or similar.
- Physics fundamentals: Solid grasp of electromagnetism, waves, acoustics, and mechanics.
- Math literacy: Comfortable with linear algebra and differential equations—you understand the theory behind signal processing and can discuss it credibly.
- Customer-facing experience: You've worked directly with customers, partners, or users—ideally in technical sales, solutions engineering, or field engineering roles.
- Nice-to-have: Experience in Latin American or Spanish markets, defense/security/critical infrastructure sectors, or technical writing.
Additional Requirements
- FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate, or willingness and ability to obtain shortly after joining (we’ll reimburse and train).
Why Join Soundryx
- Shape new markets: You'll be the architect of our Spanish-language expansion, opening doors across an entire hemisphere.
- Autonomy and impact: High-trust, high-ownership role—you'll run deals end-to-end and see your work translate directly into revenue.
- Field-proven mission: Help secure critical infrastructure against emerging aerial threats across borders and cultures.
- Ownership: Competitive salary + meaningful early equity.
Compensation
- Salary: $130,000 - $180,000
- Equity: 2% - 4% of the fully-diluted cap table for Soundryx, Inc. as calculated on offer grant date. The grant is offered as options on a standard four-year vesting schedule with a one-year cliff.
- Travel: Regular international travel required (30-50%); all expenses covered.
Export Control (ITAR-Eligibility)
WARNING
While Soundryx's commercial product is designed for broad exportability, this role may involve access to export-controlled technical data. Under US regulations, access is limited to US persons [1].
US persons include:
- US citizens
- Lawful permanent residents (Green Card holders)
- Individuals granted asylum in the United States
- Individuals admitted to the United States as refugees
- US non-citizen nationals (e.g., born in American Samoa)[2]
Apply Now
Apply with your resume at careers@soundryx.com.
Soundryx is an equal opportunity employer. Some positions are limited to US Persons under export control laws.