Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

This Staff Software Engineer will work on the SDK and external APIs team to build on the company platform. You will spend most of your week at a customer facility in the San Francisco Bay Area for the first nine to twelve months.

What you will do

• Own the technical vision for how advanced customers drive robots programmatically.
• Generalize on-site learnings into product capabilities with stable interfaces.
• Set the bar for reliability, safety, and observability of the external control surface.
• Act as the customer's technical point of contact and the team's eyes on their floor.
• Convert customer observations into prioritized, testable requirements.
• Decide between fast customer fixes and durable platform changes.
• Ship fixes and features across the stack including TypeScript/Node services, Python SDK, ROS 2 adapter, and robot controller.
• Root-cause hard problems like realtime streaming faults, networking, and collision behavior.
• Pair with customer engineers to help them diagnose and integrate.
• Run weekly working sessions with customer engineers and contribute to monthly roadmap reviews.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering.
• Ownership of a technical problem space end to end.
• Leadership of complex work across teams.
• Experience rooting-cause across a distributed system including Linux, containers, networking, logs, and timing.
• Experience working directly with demanding technical customers.
• Fluency in Python and TypeScript/Node.js.
• Range across React, C++, and Kubernetes.

Nice to have

• Time as a forward deployed, solutions, or customer-embedded engineer.
• Experience with a technical customer that runs its own engineering team.
• Working knowledge of ROS 2.
• Hands-on experience with robot control interfaces such as ROS 2, streaming or trajectory APIs, or motion control at 100 Hz and above.
• Familiarity with safety stops and collision handling.

Benefits

• Employee Stock Options
• Paid time off
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• 401(k)
• Direct Access to Robotics
• Collaborative & Modern Space
• Customizable Workstations
• Daily catered lunch
• Fully stocked kitchens with snacks and beverages
• Regular team events

About the company

Standard Bot's mission is to significantly lower the barrier to entry to real-world automation. Their user-facing applications and APIs empower individuals and developers to solve challenges without a background in robotics or automation.