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Forward Deployed Engineer

Posted 1 weeks ago
San Mateo, California, United States$230K–$310KRobotics / AI
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About the role

Company: Confidential - Venture-backed robotics data startup
Location: San Mateo, CA (in office 5 days per week)
Compensation: $230,000 - $310,000 + competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Confirm with recruiter

About the Company

A venture-backed startup that supplies the data and data infrastructure that robotics and frontier AI companies use to train physical-world models.

The Role

Our client is hiring a founding Forward Deployed Engineer (5-8 years) to own end-to-end delivery for its most strategic robotics and frontier AI customers. Think of a classic forward-deployed engineer: deeply technical, high agency and excellent with customers.

What You Will Do

  • Own end-to-end data delivery for strategic customers: pipeline understanding, data quality, scoping and QA before shipping.
  • Act as first technical responder for your accounts and resolve most issues without escalation.
  • Translate complex technical concepts for sophisticated robotics and AI customers.
  • Turn recurring customer needs into product and pipeline improvements and reusable playbooks.
  • Grow the forward-deployed motion into platform integrations and model fine-tuning and evaluation services.

What You Bring

  • 5-8 years as a customer-facing software engineer or forward deployed engineer
  • Strong Python and data pipeline experience
  • Ability to work independently in ambiguity
  • Excellent customer communication

Nice to Have

  • Robotics or AI/ML data experience
  • Familiarity with MCAP or HDF5 data formats

Tech Stack

Python, data pipelines, robotics, AI/ML, MCAP, HDF5

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