Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

This technical role requires you to be in our San Francisco office (Atherton) and travel to customer sites across the Bay Area. The RoleYou'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.)About VoltaiVoltai is developing models and agents to evaluate, design, and interact with hardware and electronic systems.The TeamWe'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, Sequoia, and leadership at Google, AMD, Broadcom and more. In other words, we have deep, deep access to the industry.What You'll DoOwn customer deployments at offices across the SF Bay Area, Cupertino, and Santa Clara. Develop features 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 ForWe care about how you think, not how you keyword-match3+ years in backend engineering, full-stack development, or infrastructure/DevOps: internships and teaching assistantships don't countFamiliarity with agent development and RAGStrong systems design and debugging instinctsComfortable with the Docker ecosystem, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), and IaC toolsWillingness to travel, mostly in CaliforniaBonus Points ForOn-prem deployment experience in enterprise or air-gapped environmentsPrior field engineering, solutions engineering, or customer-facing technical rolesExperience in EDA, semiconductor, or hardware-adjacent software environmentsOur AI Bullshit MeterWe are very good at catching people who use AI to exaggerate their abilities whether on paper or during interviews. Please don't waste our time.