Koch Industries

Forward Deployed Engineer

Koch Industries • $110K — $130K *
Atlanta, GA 30349In-Person
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in full-stack engineering roles
  • Experience in deploying and operating applications in AWS
  • Strong background in building software for external users
  • Proficient with AI-assisted development tools
  • Skilled in code review and SQL for data analysis
  • Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship

Responsibilities

  • Own development and maintenance of KOLO platform areas
  • Deliver and improve production software for commercial facilities
  • Implement AI-assisted engineering in the software lifecycle
  • Trace and resolve issues across connected devices and infrastructures
  • Enhance team delivery with reusable patterns and tooling
  • Review code and ensure secure and reliable changes
  • Troubleshoot production issues while balancing platform health

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability benefits
  • Paid vacation and flexible time off
  • Educational assistance opportunities
  • Support for infertility, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance
Full Job Description
Your Job
As a Forward Deployed Engineer on Georgia-Pacific PRO's KOLO product, you will own areas of a connected-hardware platform in production and work directly with the business and customers who use it. KOLO provides real-time dispenser-status visibility for teams maintaining commercial facilities, helping them identify service needs before they become problems.
You will work across the web application, mobile applications, public API, connected devices, and supporting cloud infrastructure. The role offers broad ownership, short decision paths, and direct influence over a live product, with the scale and support of Georgia-Pacific IT behind the team.
This role is based at our HQ in Atlanta, GA. The expectation is three (3) days in office per week.

Our Team
KOLO is built and operated by a small engineering team embedded directly in the business and supported by Georgia-Pacific infrastructure, security, and technology support organizations. Engineers own product areas rather than isolated tasks and work across software, data, cloud infrastructure, and connected devices to improve customer outcomes.
AI-assisted development is a standard part of the team's workflow. Engineers establish the quality, security, testing, and review guardrails that allow the team and approved non-engineering contributors to deliver production changes responsibly.

What You Will Do
  • Own areas of the KOLO platform end to end, including user experiences, backend services, data flows, integrations, and supporting cloud infrastructure
  • Deliver, operate, and continuously improve production software that customers and field teams rely on in active commercial facilities
  • Apply AI-assisted engineering throughout the software lifecycle while maintaining quality, security, testing, and human-review standards for generated code
  • Work across the connected-device environment to trace and resolve issues spanning applications, APIs, device-generated data, integrations, and AWS infrastructure
  • Improve the team's delivery capability by creating reusable patterns, development tooling, documentation, tests, and guardrails that make contributions safer and easier to maintain
  • Review code through pull requests, support release readiness, and help ensure changes are secure, observable, reliable, and appropriate for continuously operating hardware and software
  • Troubleshoot production issues, perform corrective maintenance, and balance platform health with the delivery of new capabilities and customer value


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Experience building and supporting production software used by external customers or field users
  • Experience working across user interfaces, backend services, and data layers within a full-stack engineering role
  • Experience deploying and operating applications in AWS
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools to deliver production code and evaluating generated output for quality, security, and maintainability
  • Experience reviewing code through a pull-request workflow and using SQL to query or analyze data, including datasets created by others
  • Must have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship


What Will Put You Ahead
  • Experience becoming productive in an unfamiliar technology stack while supporting an active product or production environment
  • Experience serving as the first or sole engineer for a product, or assuming ownership of a system with limited documentation
  • Experience creating engineering practices, tools, or reusable patterns that continued after your direct involvement
  • Experience building guardrails, workflows, or training that enabled non-engineers to contribute technical work safely
  • Experience with connected products, Internet of Things platforms, or systems that process device-generated data
  • Experience migrating an application or data platform away from end-of-life technology
  • Experience and depth in distributed systems, data modeling, security, performance engineering, developer tooling, or organizational adoption of AI


At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength, focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, disability, retirement, paid vacation and time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria are set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy, or guideline, and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions about which benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

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About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
Learn more about Koch Industries
Industry
Energy & Utilities
Founded
1940
* Ladders Estimates

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