Life at Plume
At Plume, we believe that technology isn't about moving faster, it's about making life’s moments better. Which is why we’ve built the world's first, and only, open and hardware-independent service delivery platform for smart homes, small businesses, enterprises, and beyond. Our SaaS platform uses WiFi, advanced AI, and machine learning to create the future of connected spaces—and human experiences—at massive scale.
We now deliver services to over 50 million locations globally and have managed over 2.5 billion devices on our platform. We’re expanding rapidly, pioneering a new category, and we achieved our Series F funding in just four years. Our customers include many of the world's largest Communications Service Providers (CSPs) who look to Plume to help them evolve their smart home offerings while gleaning insights from their own data.
With a bias for action and a love for being trailblazers, the team at Plume embodies a combination of relentless curiosity and imaginative innovation. We challenge ourselves to think in ways that other companies don't, work to do what should be done (rather than what can), and if we can’t do it exceptionally well, we don’t do it. It’s how we've assembled a team of world-class builders, thinkers, and doers. And it’s how we’re reinventing what’s possible every day.
This is a technical role, providing technical support to Plume’s Enterprise customers and their various technical teams. The role covers Project/Account Management, Feature Design, Implementation management of technologies and processes definition. This person will be responsible for developing and maintaining expertise on the customers systems and processes as it relates to Plume’s platform.
A Customer Deployment Engineer is required to develop and maintain an expertise in the relevant Plume products and ensure a high level of customer satisfaction. In addition to knowledge on the Plume Products, The CDE will be expected to be the front line of communication with the customer as it relates to triaging issues, helping define requirements for new features, coordinating other plume functions, representing Plume’s platform capabilities such as Pods, Gateway Device, APIs, Data, roadmaps, and firmware integrations.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Communication Service Providers (CSPs), Enterprise customers and their product, technical teams to help them gain a good understanding of Plume solutions.
- Provide both strategic and day-to-day technical expertise and support for assigned accounts.
- Act as subject matter expert and technical liaison between Plume technical teams and other vendors of Customers such as ODM’s, SOC vendors, and OSS/BSS API vendors in the effort of implementing technical deployment projects.
- Drive diagnosis, troubleshooting and thorough testing of escalated high impact production issues that are not easily reproducible.
- Lead cross-functional customer experience review sessions with Product and Engineering to support development of innovative solutions. Communicate clear and actionable recommendations towards product improvement (including bug fixes and new features) during these sessions, and manage prioritization of these requests.
- Coordinate the definition of requirements for new features, design and ultimately development and deployment
- Author technical documentation for the Customer Deployment team and Communication Service Providers
- Conduct workshops, presentations, meetings on-site with customer pursuit of deployment projects
Qualifications:
- Education Requirements: BS in Computer or Electrical Engineering or related technical field, or equivalent with 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
- 3 years of experience in a Field Applications Engineering, Product Management or Support with Communication Service Providers in the region.
- Engineering type of role for Cloud or Networking services.
- A demonstrated understanding of the key technology components that make up Cloud such as virtualization, networking, workloads/applications, and API’s
- Good understanding of wireless technologies
- Proficient verbal and written technical communication in English and Hindi.
- Proficient usage of collaboration tools like Salesforce, Jira & Confluence.
- Ability to travel ~25% of the time to Mumbai.
About Plume
As the creator of the only open, hardware-independent, cloud-controlled experience platform for CSPs and their subscribers, Plume partners with over 350 CSP customers, including some of the world’s largest such as Comcast, Charter, Liberty Global, and J:COM.
Using OpenSync, the most widely supported open-source, silicon-to-cloud framework for smart spaces, Plume’s software-defined network allows CSPs to decouple their service offerings from hardware and rapidly curate and deliver new services over a multi-vendor, open-platform architecture.
Backed by investors such as Insight Partners and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Plume is now valued at $2.6B, having added over $500M in funding in 2021 alone.
Plume is an equal opportunity workplace that maintains a continuing policy of nondiscrimination in all employment practices and decisions, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, childbirth or related individual conditions, medical conditions (as defined by state law), military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
