Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Bay Area
About The Position
This job requires you to be in our Palo Alto office, and travel to customer sites in the Bay Area. The Role You'll deliver our AI platform to hardware labs of the world's leading semiconductor and consumer electronics companies. About Voltai Voltai is developing models and agents to evaluate, design, and interact with hardware and electronic systems. The Team We're hackers, researchers, and operators obsessed with building AI for electronic systems and semiconductors. Our team includes former Stanford professors, SAIL researchers, Olympiad medalists, and executives from Synopsys, GlobalFoundries, and Cadence. Despite the name drops, we care far more about execution than titles. We're backed by Stanford, Silicon Valley's top investors, and leadership at Google, AMD, Broadcom among others. In other words, we have deep, deep access to the industry.
Requirements
- 3+ years in backend engineering, full-stack development, or infrastructure/DevOps: we're open to other disciplines (e.g. mobile, frontend) provided you deeply understand web applications and their deployment
- Familiarity with agent development and RAG
- Strong systems design and debugging instincts
- Comfortable with the Docker ecosystem, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), and IaC tools
- Excellent communication: you'll be on-site with senior engineers and executives at world-class companies
- Willingness to travel, mostly in California
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future need for visa sponsorship.
Nice To Haves
- 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
Responsibilities
- Own customer deployments at offices across the SF Bay Area, Cupertino, and Santa Clara.
- Port features from our cloud platform 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.
- Be the feedback loop between customer environments and our engineering team.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
