Forward Deployed Executive

The role

PhysicsX builds AI driven simulation software for aerospace, automotive, energy, semiconductor and defence customers, and our Asia Pacific business is growing fast from a new office in Singapore. As Forward Deployed Executive, you are the senior technical executive for our most strategic accounts in the region, the person who takes a customer mission from first conversation to a deployed, adopted platform.

You will run missions. A mission is a time boxed outcome defined with the customer. Most need the PhysicsX platform deployed, adopted and working inside the customer's own environment, often on premise or air gapped, and then handed over smoothly to the account team. Other missions include new partnership deep dives and building internal capability. You will operate as a peer of customer CTOs, CIOs and heads of engineering, and as a partner to our delivery, product, research and commercial leaders.

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Forward Deployed Executive

PhysicsX, Singapore

The role

What you will do

Missions across the region. Define what success looks like for each mission and for Asia Pacific as a whole, then drive it through the delivery, product and research teams you influence, with or without formal authority over them. You own the execution outcome of three or more missions at a time. The true outcomes are customer adoption and a smooth handover to account teams.
The executive relationship. Be the senior technical voice to customer CTOs, CIOs and heads of engineering: scoping missions, resolving escalations, and holding service level and partner conversations. In markets where doors open through trusted introductions, you build the relationships that open them.
Organisational navigation. Work through customer compliance, legal, procurement and security reviews, internal politics and change management. Move the customer from a bespoke solution to relying on the platform, and own the adoption roadmap that gets them there.
Regional strategy. Work with the executive team on which markets, accounts and use cases PhysicsX pursues in Asia Pacific, and which it does not. Make the trade offs that are right for the whole company, including with local partners and intermediaries.
Deployment into sensitive environments. Set the approach for deploying and upgrading the platform in sovereign data centres, on premise and air gapped customer environments, and for how upgrades land on a cadence customers can plan around.
Field signal back into the product. Turn what you learn on the ground into reusable patterns, frameworks and standards, and make sure it reaches product and research so that customer work becomes product.
The standard for forward deployed work. Set the tone for how we show up in front of customers, mentor the engineers and leaders around you, and help hire strong people into the region. As the function grows you will help shape the team that forms around you.
Hands on when it counts. For a novel environment, a difficult security review or an escalation that needs senior technical judgement, you step in directly.

What you need

Hands on software and AI implementation. You have implemented software and AI across mixed customer environments and got it adopted. That means forward deployed software engineering (FDSE) experience, practical AI implementation experience and a working grasp of evals. You hold the technical bar for the work around you.
A record of senior customer facing technical leadership. You have led complex deployments or customer programmes for enterprise software or platforms in large organisations, and can show recent evidence of owning delivery at scale.
Experience in regulated, high security environments. You have worked in on premise, air gapped or sovereign data environments and understand how security, compliance and approval processes shape what is possible.
Executive presence and trust. You have built lasting relationships with CTOs, CIOs and heads of engineering, and you are straight with them about timelines, constraints and what is realistic.
Infrastructure fluency. You can hold your own on Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure and how enterprise platforms are versioned and released, enough to be credible in sovereign and air gapped environments.
Judgement in ambiguity. You are comfortable defining success where the path is not established and the role is still taking shape. You hold strong opinions loosely and change them when the evidence changes.
Influence without authority. You move teams and organisations through clarity, documentation, training and example rather than reporting lines.
Organisational navigation. You have taken customers through compliance, legal, procurement and security reviews and the internal politics and change management around them, and moved a customer from a bespoke solution to relying on a platform.
Calm, mature judgement under pressure. You earn trust quickly with senior customers and with engineers, and you stay measured when things break.
Readiness for the region. You are based in, or willing to relocate to, Singapore, comfortable with extensive travel across Asia Pacific, and respectful of markets where relationships come before transactions.

Forward Deployed Executive

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Forward Deployed Executive

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