Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
Core
Build production-level fixes and features for a large robotics customer's facility, decoupling on-site solutions into the company's streaming APIs and SDK platform.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)
Builds
Python SDK, TypeScript/Node services, ROS 2 adapter, robot controller, and streaming APIs
Domain
Robotics, Realtime Control, Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Linux, containers, networking, debugging distributed systems, customer-facing technical leadership, system architecture
Preferred skills
ROS 2, robotics control interfaces, motion control, safety systems
Technologies
Python, TypeScript, Node.js, React, C++, Kubernetes, ROS 2
Responsibilities
Define technical vision for customer-driven robot control and streaming APIs; ship fixes from customer site to product release; root-cause systemic reliability issues in realtime streaming and networking; act as technical point of contact for customer engineering teams; generalize on-site learnings into stable platform interfaces; lead weekly working sessions and roadmap reviews with customer leadership
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence
