Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer (Robotics)

XDOF; San Mateo; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

XDOF is hiring its founding Forward Deployed Engineer. You\'ll embed with our most strategic customers and own their success end-to-end, from translating their model and data needs into concrete collection / annotation / delivery specs, to making sure the data we ship actually moves their model performance.

This is a critical role that today, our founders and core engineers absorb directly. As an FDE, you\'ll be the single technical owner for a portfolio of accounts, sitting at the intersection

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience, ideally including customer-facing or forward-deployed work.
• Founding-engineer profile, strongly preferred: own multiple initiatives with no fixed playbook and customer-facing experience.
• Strong production coding (Python preferred) with experience shipping and operating data pipelines or infrastructure.
• High agency and comfort with ambiguity: drive customer outcomes rather than wait for a spec.
• Excellent communication and low ego: explain hard tradeoffs to engineers and executives.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery for a set of strategic customers: scope requirements, sequence delivery, QA before shipping, and clear blockers.
• Be the first technical responder for your accounts: triage questions, manage timelines, and escalate only what genuinely needs it.
• Represent XDOF's technical depth to sophisticated customers while protecting proprietary methodology.
• Turn recurring customer needs into concrete input for data-engine, pipeline, and annotation roadmaps.
• Grow the motion: lead platform-integration engagements and model fine-tuning/evaluation services for enterprise customers.

Tools

Python

Data pipelines

Job description

XDOF is hiring its founding Forward Deployed Engineer. You\'ll embed with our most strategic customers and own their success end-to-end, from translating their model and data needs into concrete collection / annotation / delivery specs, to making sure the data we ship actually moves their model performance.

This is a critical role that today, our founders and core engineers absorb directly. As an FDE, you\'ll be the single technical owner for a portfolio of accounts, sitting at the intersection