Forward Deployed Engineer - Physical AI

Role description

Role Overview

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Cloud Platform is a senior, high-autonomy individual contributor role that owns the infrastructure foundation making the physical AI platform fast, reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-effective.

What You Will Do

You will work alongside the Field CTO and the Head of Physical AI, and partner closely with the Physical AI Systems and Platform & Product FDEs. Inside each account, you own end-to-end technical execution: discovery, scoping, infrastructure design, build, and production rollout.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You are welcome to work remotely from the United States (SF Bay Area, CA or Austin, TX preferred). You will have the opportunity to work on impactful AI projects, and be part of a collaborative and innovative culture.

Requirements

• 6+ Years of Hands-On Engineering: Strong backend, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE experience, with at least two years in a customer-facing or deployment-oriented technical role
• Distributed Systems & Compute Platforms: Experience building distributed systems, job orchestration, compute platforms, internal developer platforms, or ML infrastructure
• Strong Systems Programming: Strong Python, Go, or similar systems and backend programming skills
• AI-Native Development Workflow: Fluency in modern AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) as primary leverage to rapidly design, implement, test, debug, and refactor production-quality software
• Cloud-Native Toolchain: Experience with Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, observability, cloud networking, storage, IAM/RBAC, and infrastructure as code
• GPU & HPC Workloads: Familiarity with GPU workloads, batch jobs, training pipelines, inference workloads, or HPC-style compute environments
• Cross-Layer Debugging: Proven ability to debug infrastructure issues across application, network, storage, compute, and orchestration layers
• Security & Reliability Instincts: Strong instincts for isolation, RBAC, uptime, and traceability on workloads that touch customers
• High Agency: You navigate ambiguity without waiting for permission, with a bias toward simple, composable infrastructure that serves real customer workflows over scheduling another meeting
• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication. You can hold your own in a technical conversation with a customer CTO and debrief a design partner engagement to the Head of Physical AI

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Career growth and learning opportunities
• Flexibility and ownership
• Collaborative and innovative culture
• Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
• International environment and talented teams