Director, Forward Deployed Engineering
Core
Lead the team responsible for getting Viam's customers into production, managing deployments to customer sites and serving as the senior technical partner to customer leadership.
Role type
Director, Forward Deployed Engineering
Builds
Production deployments of robotics engineering platform software for strategic enterprise accounts
Domain
Robotics / IoT / Edge and Cloud Systems
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
Team management, technical architecture design, systems integration, stakeholder management with customer leadership, project scheduling, platform prioritization, building structure in bespoke environments
Preferred skills
Robotics or IoT experience, hardware familiarity, ability to learn new platforms quickly
Technologies
Robotics platforms, IoT systems, Edge architectures, Cloud architectures, SDKs
Responsibilities
Manage a team of five forward deployed engineers; Own the technical approach across deployments and make architecture and prioritization calls; Be the senior technical voice with customer leadership; Work with Viam leadership on account direction; Drive deployments to production; Turn field learnings into platform priorities
Seniority
Director, hands-on leadership
