Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will turn technology into working customer deployments. This involves designing integrations, deploying software, debugging robot behavior, and helping customers get started.

What you will do

• Own technical delivery of customer deployments from requirements to ongoing improvement.
• Design and build software integrations connecting systems with customer APIs and workflows.
• Design robot tasks and evaluation workflows.
• Debug software, integrations, robot behavior, and the operating environment.
• Work directly with customers to understand constraints and communicate progress.
• Turn deployment experience into reusable tooling, documentation, and playbooks.

Required qualifications

• Built and shipped production software.
• Can independently take a technical problem from an ambiguous requirement to a tested, working solution.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience designing integrations across APIs, services, or complex systems.
• Ability to debug methodically.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar technical domains quickly.
• Ability to take ownership in an early-stage environment.
• Excitement to work hands-on with robots and customer teams.

Nice to have

• Experience in robotics
• Experience in machine learning
• Experience deploying complex software in customer environments

About the company

Generalist builds embodied foundation models to enable robots to intelligently interact with the physical world. The team includes researchers and roboticists from OpenAI, Boston Dynamics, and Google DeepMind.