Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer, Spanish Markets

Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer, Spanish Markets (Los Angeles, Travel Required, ITAR-Eligible) Location : Los Angeles, CA (onsite) Company : Soundryx, Inc. Back to All Careers. Laran 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 Laran 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 Laran 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, where 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) Caution While Laran’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 A. 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)B Laran is an equal opportunity employer. Some positions are limited to US Persons under export control laws. Footnotes

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