CareerPlan

Forward Deployed Engineer

San FranciscoFull-time$180k–$220k2026-11-04 → 2026-11-09
HybridNo visa sponsorship

Core

Deploy robotics systems in customer facilities, managing the full lifecycle from data collection and model tuning to production troubleshooting and hardware/software integration.

Role type

Senior IC forward-deployed robotics engineer

Builds

Physical robotics systems for factory, warehouse, and logistics operations

Domain

Robotics, AI/ML, Hardware-Software Integration

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

robotics system deployment, perception hardware debugging, model fine-tuning, field troubleshooting, hardware-software integration, data collection for model training, edge deployment

Preferred skills

Vision-Language-Action models, learned robot policies, GPU compute stacks, Korean language proficiency

Responsibilities

Drive deployment cycles including data collection and model fine-tuning, diagnose and patch hardware/software/perception failures, collect operational data to inform foundation model training, troubleshoot integrations across perception hardware and compute stacks, travel to customer sites for deployment and support

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC