About Squint
Our mission is to accelerate human potential.
Squint is the Industrial AI company that turns operating knowledge into action. Our technology serves Fortune 500 leaders across manufacturing, field services, and utilities. Companies such as PepsiCo, Continental Tire, and Tenneco use Squint to capture and activate their essential tribal knowledge, standards docs, and OT data into procedures, orchestrated work, and context for AI agents to act on.
Some things to know about us:
We are obsessed with our customers, and they’ll tell you so themselves.
We raised a $40M Series B in 2025, backed by elite investors including Sequoia Capital, Menlo Ventures, TCV and The Westly Group.
Fast Company named us to their Most Innovative Companies list in 2025 and 2026.
We were named to Built In’s Best Startups to Work for in SF list.
Read more about us in Upstarts Media, Fortune, Forbes, and more.
About the Role
Anyone can stand up a pilot. Getting Squint running in a live plant — used every shift, trusted by the floor, showing up in the numbers — is the hard part. That's the job.
We're hiring a Deployment Partner to get Squint live where our customers actually work: the factory floors, job sites, and utility yards. You're the person embedded on the ground who turns a plan into a working, adopted system.
This is not a configuration job, and it's not consulting. You’ll own the deployment and adoption of Squint’s industrial AI inside the doors of F500 industrial customers who make the world go round.
Our customers' environments are messy and industrial: legacy systems, spotty connectivity, workers in the field wearing AR headsets instead of sitting at a desk. That's the point. The mess is where the value is, and you're the one who's comfortable standing in it.
You'll join our Strategy team — alongside our deployment partners and strategists, reporting to our Head of Strategy — and spend your time shoulder-to-shoulder with customers, defining how Squint scales its most complex deployments.
What You'll Do
You're the person accountable for getting Squint live at a customer site and proving out its value — whatever it takes. You will:
Drive true AI adoption in the industrial world. From kickoff to go-live, you’ll lead the AI roadmap for our F500 industrial customers and be accountable for getting Squint working and delivering real value at a customer site.
Build in the product — no code required. You'll pull use cases from operators, build and structure procedures, stand up the customer's knowledge graph, and shape Squint’s AI to each site's equipment, systems, and language.
Go where the work is. You'll spend real time on floors and in the field, watching how frontline teams actually operate, so what you build is something they'll actually use, close the gap between "deployed" and "depended on," and cut time-to-value at every site.
Earn trust at every level. Frontline operator to plant manager to exec sponsor — you're the person customers count on to make Squint work.
Make the product sharper. Every deployment teaches us something. You're the fastest path from what you learn in the field to what we build next.
About You
You make good calls with incomplete information, and you'd rather decide and adjust than wait for a playbook.
You care about outcomes.
You want both: time on-site in a plant learning how it really works, and time at a desk turning that into something that scales.
You can talk as easily with a maintenance tech on the floor as with a VP of Operations — and both walk away trusting you.
You've built, led, or shipped something real — a business, a club, a team, a project, an internship where you owned an outcome and finished it.
Travel and time on-site energize you rather than drain you. Expect meaningful travel in this role, you'll be traveling about 75% of the time.
What You'll Bring
A recent degree or early-career experience (0–2 years) — your major matters far less than your judgment and drive.
Evidence you can take ownership of something ambiguous and see it through, without a lot of process or hand-holding.
Sharp communication and people instincts: you build trust fast with very different kinds of people.
A bias toward action over process — and toward finishing.
Genuine interest in industrial operations and the physical economy — manufacturing, field services, or utilities exposure is a bonus, never a requirement.
No engineering or coding background required. Curiosity about how software and AI create value on the ground is what matters.
Benefits
Based out of our office in San Francisco, we love the energy of in-person collaboration.
Competitive Salary and Equity
Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental care
Flexible PTO Policy
Lunch and Dinner Service
Wellness Benefit
Maven Family Planning Benefits
Partnership with Care.com
Mental Health Services
401(k) Retirement Plan
Pre-Tax Commuter Benefit for Parking & Public Transit
Company-wide Retreats
Subsidized Uber to and from the office
A Final Note
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Squint is an equal opportunity employer, welcoming applicants from all backgrounds without regard to race, gender, age, or any other protected characteristic. We encourage you to apply even if you're not quite sure you fit all the requirements for the role!
Ready to redefine the future? Join us at Squint and be a part of something revolutionary.
Skills Required
- Recent degree or 0-2 years of early-career experience
- Proven ownership of ambiguous projects from start to finish
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills; build trust with frontline operators and executives
- Willingness to travel approximately 75% and spend significant time on-site
- Experience building, leading, or shipping a project, team, or product
- Bias toward action and a focus on finishing outcomes
- Curiosity about how software and AI create operational value
- Genuine interest or exposure to industrial operations, manufacturing, field services, or utilities
Squint Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Squint and has not been reviewed or approved by Squint.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is described as competitive for a startup, with base salary ranges for engineering and applied AI roles positioned as solid relative to similar-stage firms.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is repeatedly framed as a meaningful part of total rewards, with upside potential cited as a key contributor to perceived attractiveness of offers.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellness stipends, daily meals (where applicable), commuter benefits, and remote/home-office support are presented as valuable add-ons that can strengthen the overall rewards experience.
Squint Insights
What We Do
Squint is the Manufacturing Intelligence Platform that the world's leading manufacturers use to capture expert knowledge, unlock operator performance, and analyze production insights. Operators love Squint because it uniquely combines spatial computing, LLMs, and human expertise into a magical experience. Our story starts with manufacturing, a $7T industry that is the foundation of the world as we know it. Faced with a generational inflection point, the industry is in need of a new wave of technology that bridges the knowledge gap between the retiring and incoming workforce. Squint’s mission is to accelerate human potential by bringing digital knowledge into the real world.
Why Work With Us
Squint isn’t just building another AI tool; it’s redefining how people learn and work. By combining AI and AR, Squint transforms complex physical processes into intuitive, streamlined experiences. Employees build technology that directly empowers frontline workers, engineers, and operators to have access to the cutting edge technology they deserve.
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