What the role involves
About Cerrion
At Cerrion, we are building the future of AI-enabled manufacturing. Headquartered in Zurich and backed by Y Combinator and top Silicon Valley investors, we deploy video AI Agents that see what is happening on production floors, spot problems automatically, and intervene in real time to keep production running smoothly at global scale. Our technology is live in factories across 15+ countries, helping leading manufacturers in glass, beverage, food, CPG, building materials, and wood cut downtime by up to 50%. We are at an inflection point and scaling fast.
Role Summary
We are hiring a Field Deployment Engineer to own the physical installation and technical setup of Cerrion systems at customer factories across Europe. You will take over once a deal is closed, plan and drive the installation with the customer, and ensure all hardware is correctly installed and integrated so the project can be handed over to Customer Success for proof-of-value execution. In the near term you will execute installations yourself. As Cerrion scales, you will grow into managing subcontractors and field teams, owning the full installation lifecycle end-to-end.
This is an individual contributor role with high ownership, significant customer exposure, and at least 50% travel , primarily across DACH. This role is not a desk job. If you are most comfortable on a factory floor or in a server room rather than in a meeting room, this is the right environment for you.
What a Typical Deployment Looks Like
Cerrion deployments combine a server and a network of up to 80 IP cameras per plan. Optional components include connectivity modules such as SIM routers or Starlink, loudspeakers, and PLC interfaces with production machines.
Deployments typically involve
Pre-installation: Remote planning with the customer: aligning on timelines, site access, IT requirements, cable routes, mounting constraints, and responsibilities. In-person site surveys may be beneficial to improve the accuracy of installation planning.
On-site installation: Hands-on execution: pulling and placing low-voltage cabling, mounting cameras and hardware, configuring switches and connectivity, resolving blockers, coordinating between installers and customer teams, and validating the full system end-to-end.
Acceptance and handover: Confirming that all hardware is correctly installed, connected, and validated, then handing the project cleanly to Customer Success for AI deployment.
- Factories vary widely in layout, access constraints, and operational maturity. You will need to work confidently in complex, imperfect industrial environments and solve problems independently when things do not go to plan, which they often will not.
- Responsibilities
- Take full ownership of the installation and technical setup phase after deal close, driving projects from planning through a hardware-complete, deployment-ready state.
Planning & Customer Communication
Physical Installation
- Qualifications
- Must-have
3 to 6 years hands-on experience with physical low-voltage installations, deployment, or delivery roles involving physical systems. You must have personally run cable and mounted hardware.
Strong technical judgment: Able to design and execute installations that are safe, reliable, and completed efficiently, finding the right solution without overengineering it. As the team grows, able to translate that judgment into precise instructions for installers and subcontractors.
Exposure to manufacturing or industrial shop floors , such as automation, electrical systems, machine vision, IIoT, robotics, or similar.
Basic but solid understanding of industrial networking , including IPs, switches, VLANs, and firewall coordination.
Comfort coordinating IT integration with customer IT teams.
Professional fluency in English. German is a strong advantage given our DACH customer base.
High willingness to travel across Europe, at least 50%, with multi-day on-site stints being the norm.
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About Cerrion
Cerrion helps manufacturers automatically detect, understand and eliminate problems on their production lines using video-based Computer Vision. Our AI leverages standard CCTV cameras and learns how a manufacturing process looks like when things are going well and can automatically detect and track problems in real-time. For example, one of our customers, a Pepsi supplier producing 500 bottles per minute now automatically detects and reacts to a fallen bottle before it starts blocking their production line.
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