Forward Deployed Executive

About us

Re-architecting Engineering for the Age of Intelligence

PhysicsX is the physics AI company for industrials. The company’s mission is to accelerate hardware innovation by overhauling what industrial engineering and manufacturing look like today. PhysicsX is building a new simulation software stack to deliver deep physics AI enablement across the entire engineering lifecycle. The company partners with leading organisations in aerospace & defence, automotive, semiconductors, materials, and energy & renewables, supporting them on some of their most critical and complex challenges. PhysicsX is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with offices in London, New York, and Singapore and an expanding presence in the Bay Area.

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.

This is an executive role, not a regional deployment manager role. You report to a member of the executive team and start with no direct reports, so you can land, learn the business and shape what the team around you should become. The model draws on Palantir's Echo, Google's Office of the CTO and Microsoft's GBB teams, adapted to an AI driven physics platform.

What You Will Own

- 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 co