Machina Labs
1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at Machina Labs. Curated with comp bands.
On the board since Aug 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why Machina Labs
An FDE role where the deployment is a seven-axis robot bending metal — for engineers who want the physical edge of applied AI.
- FDE type
- Product-embedded
- Travel
- High
- Comp
- Undisclosed
- Stage
- Growth-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Engineers who want robotics and manufacturing, not SaaS
- People happy to embed on a factory floor
- Those who like hardware-in-the-loop debugging
What they do
Machina Labs builds robotic sheet-metal-forming technology — its RoboCraftsman cells and RoboForming process shape metal with seven-axis robots instead of fixed dies. The FDE seat is about getting that system running inside a customer's production environment.
What “forward deployed” means here
This is product-embedded field work at its most literal: embed at a customer factory in Dayton, run the robotic forming cells, tune RoboForming parameters, and debug hardware in production. The 'deployment' is a physical machine on a real line, not a software integration — a different job from the SaaS FDE norm.
Comp & leveling
Comp is undisclosed on the board. Growth-stage robotics/manufacturing companies typically pay solid engineering bands with equity, but below frontier-software-AI numbers; the draw here is the domain, not the headline. Expect leveling tied to hands-on robotics and manufacturing experience.
Growth signals
Hiring a dedicated forward-deployed engineer to sit at customer factories signals Machina is moving from demos to production installs. For the right candidate it's a rare chance to own robotics deployment end-to-end; the constraint is that the seat is on-site and physical by nature.
Analysis updated 2026-09-10
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