Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Voltai, Inc

$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in backend engineering, full-stack development, or infrastructure/DevOps
  • Strong understanding of web applications and deployment
  • Proficient in Docker ecosystem and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Excellent systems design and debugging skills
  • Exceptional communication skills for interaction with senior engineers and executives
  • Willingness to travel within California

Responsibilities

  • Own customer deployments in the SF Bay Area and Silicon Valley
  • Port features from cloud platform to secure on-prem environments
  • Manage cloud deployments across various platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenShift)
  • Ensure the health and stability of cloud systems
  • Act as a feedback loop between customer environments and engineering team

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with top-tier investors and acclaimed professionals
  • Engage in innovative projects at the intersection of AI and hardware
  • Access to a collaborative and intellectually stimulating environment
  • Work at the forefront of semiconductor and consumer electronics industries
  • Chance to influence leading technology firms' deployment strategies
Full Job Description
This role requires you to be in our Palo Alto office (Atherton) and travel to customer sites in the Bay Area.

The Role
You'll deliver our AI platform the world's leading semiconductor and consumer electronics companies, and collaborate with them to develop new features. (This is not an exaggeration.)

What You'll Do
  • Own customer deployments at offices across the SF Bay Area, Cupertino, and Santa Clara.
  • Develop features and integrations 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, debugging them when they're not.
  • Learn about hardware design. Previous experience is not expected, but you should be eager to familiarize yourself with how hardware is developed at a high-level.


What We're Looking For
  • We care about how you think, not how you keyword-match
  • 5+ years in backend engineering, full-stack development, or infrastructure/DevOps: internships and teaching assistantships don't count
  • Familiarity with agent development and RAG
  • Fluency in at least one mainstream backend language (Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, etc.) and familiarity with either Python or TypeScript
  • Comfortable with the Docker ecosystem, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), and IaC tools
  • Willingness to travel, mostly in California


Bonus Points For
  • 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


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