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You will write software, close the loop between field failures and the core engineering team, and shape the product roadmap with the highest-signal data in the company: what actually breaks in the real world.\nWhat You Will Do\nLead on-site deployments of OM1-powered robots at enterprise customers across manufacturing, logistics, and retail\nIntegrate our robots with customer infrastructure: networks, safety systems, facility workflows, and operator training\nDebug across the full stack in the field, from hardware and firmware to perception, navigation, and cloud telemetry\nBuild deployment tooling, runbooks, and remote diagnostics so that each deployment is easier than the last\nTranslate field observations into prioritized engineering requirements and drive them to resolution\nServe as the technical face of OpenMind to customer engineering and operations teams\nWhat We Look For\nStrong engineering fundamentals in languages such as Python, Go, and/or C++, with comfort in Linux environments\nHands-on experience with robots, embedded systems, or other hardware deployed outside a lab\nProven ability to debug complex systems under pressure with incomplete information\nExcellent communication with non-technical stakeholders; you can explain a failure to a plant manager and a fix to a roboticist\nWillingness to travel up to 50 percent to customer sites\nHigh agency. 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