Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer jobs

2 open roles. Hands-on-hardware forward deployment: fleet ops, on-site diagnostics, and integration work at robotics and embodied-AI companies.

Conduit

Forward Deployed Engineer (Robotics)

new $160K–$200K + equity

A robotics-automation startup building its FDE bench three postings deep — Robotics, Vision & ML, and an Edge-Frameworks/FDE-tooling seat — at $160K–$200K + equity to deploy FactoryOS on real factory floors. This is the corner of the market where 'forward deployed' means a hard hat, not a Zoom call.

San Francisco, CA (onsite) roboticsmanufacturingthree FDE seats

Physical Intelligence

Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer

new Not disclosed

The rare FDE that's hands-on-hardware: you're the first responder for a live robot fleet at one of the hottest robotics foundation-model labs, not embedding at a customer. Asks just 2 years and a B.S. — because almost nobody has actually debugged multi-robot fleets in production.

San Francisco (on-site) roboticsfoundation modelsfleet ops