Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

About the role

This role requires you to be in our San Francisco office (Atherton near Palo Alto). You'll deliver our AI platform to leading semiconductor and consumer electronics companies, and collaborate with them to develop new features.

Responsibilities

• Own customer deployments at offices across the SF Bay Area, Cupertino, and Santa Clara.
• Develop features specific to customer workflows and port features from our cloud product to on-prem environments inside some of the most locked-down infrastructure on the planet.
• Manage cloud deployments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenShift: standing them up, keeping them healthy, and debugging them when they're not.
• Learn about hardware design.

Requirements

• 5+ years in backend engineering, full-stack development, or infrastructure/DevOps.
• Familiarity with agent development and RAG.
• Strong systems design and debugging instincts.
• Comfortable with the Docker ecosystem, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), and IaC tools.
• Willingness to travel, mostly in California.

Qualifications

• On-prem deployment experience in enterprise or air-gapped environments.
• Prior field engineering, solutions engineering, or customer-facing technical roles.
• Experience in EDA, semiconductor, or hardware-adjacent software environments.

Skills

• None explicitly listed, but strong problem-solving skills and ability to learn quickly are valued.

Benefits

• Deep access to the industry through partnerships with institutions like Stanford and Sequoia, as well as connections to leaders in tech like Google, AMD, Broadcom, and more.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $100,000 - $150,000 annually.

Schedule

The schedule is flexible and allows for occasional travel within California.