Field Deployment Engineer

AIM; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k plan

Life insurance

Gourmet food & perks

Job summary

AIM in Bellevue, WA seeks Field Deployment Engineers to install autonomy hardware on heavy equipment in real-world environments. You will ensure wiring, sensors, power, and mounts are integrated safely and repeatably.

You thrive in tough outdoor conditions, solve field issues, and document install procedures. Travel 40–70% to customer sites worldwide. Join a team that values safety, robustness, and hands-on engineering with rapid growth and broad impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in auto mechanics, heavy equipment installation, field service, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with wiring, harnessing, sensors, power systems, and safety circuits.
• Comfort working on large machines in demanding field environments.
• Strong safety mindset and attention to detail.
• Ability to work autonomously under ambiguous, high-pressure conditions.
• Willingness to travel internationally and domestically, often on short notice.

Responsibilities

• Lead physical installation of AIM hardware on heavy equipment (compute, sensors, wiring, power).
• Execute mechanical and electrical integration following standardized install procedures.
• Perform initial power-on, safety validation, and hardware acceptance checks.
• Validate E-Stops, lockout/tagout, and safety-critical wiring.
• Identify install-related failure modes (vibration, dust, heat, strain relief).
• Propose improvements to mounts, harnessing, enclosures, and service access.
• Create and maintain install guides, wiring diagrams, and checklists.
• Define install acceptance criteria and handoff standards.
• Train and enable dealers to perform installs safely and independently.
• Act as the bridge between customers and AIM engineering - clear, honest, technically grounded communication.
• Manage expectations around downtime, features, maintenance windows, and machine readiness.
• Build trust through competence, transparency, and ownership.

Skills

Auto mechanics

Heavy equipment installation

Wiring & harnessing

Safety mindset

Autonomous operation under pressure

Travel readiness

Tools

Hydraulics

GNSS systems

Perception stacks

Motion control systems

Job description

Our Field Deployment Engineers are responsible for the physical foundation of autonomy.

This role is rooted in automechanical systems expertise - wiring, harnessing, power, mounts, and safety-critical integration on heavy equipment. If the machine isn’t installed correctly, nothing else matters. You ensure AIM systems are installed safely, robustly, and repeatably on real machines in real environments - setting the baseline for everything that follows.

About you

You are hands-on, methodical, and comfortable working where heavy equipment, wiring, and real-world constraints collide. You thrive in physical systems and take pride in doing the hard work correctly the first time.

You are equally comfortable:

• routing and terminating wiring harnesses on large machines

• installing compute, sensors, power systems, and mounts in harsh environments

• validating safety circuits, E-Stops, and lockout/tagout procedures

• diagnosing install-time issues caused by vibration, heat, dust, or strain

• working outdoors, on-site, in tough conditions

You care deeply about safety, robustness, and serviceability - because in the field, install quality determines reliability.

About us together

Together, we will:

• install autonomy systems on heavy equipment safely and repeatably

• turn complex installs into standardized, scalable procedures

• harden hardware integration against real-world abuse

• enable dealers and partners to perform installs independently

• build the physical backbone that allows autonomy to scale globally

We’ll work in mud, heat, dust, and noise. We’ll iterate on hardware designs and procedures until installs are boring - because boring installs are safe installs.

Responsibilities

Machine Installation & Hardware Integration

• Lead physical installation of AIM hardware on heavy equipment (compute, sensors, wiring, power).

• Execute mechanical and electrical integration following standardized install procedures.

• Perform initial power-on, safety validation, and hardware acceptance checks.

Safety & Robustness

• Validate E-Stops, lockout/tagout, and safety-critical wiring.

• Identify install-related failure modes (vibration, dust, heat, strain relief).

• Propose improvements to mounts, harnessing, enclosures, and service access.

Documentation & Dealer Enablement

• Create and maintain install guides, wiring diagrams, and checklists.

• Define install acceptance criteria and handoff standards.

• Train and enable dealers to perform installs safely and independently.

Customer Relationship & Trust Building

• Act as the bridge between customers and AIM engineering - clear, honest, technically grounded communication.

• Manage expectations around downtime, features, maintenance windows, and machine readiness.

• Build trust through competence, transparency, and ownership.

Travel

• Deep immersion on customer sites worldwide

• ~40–70% travel depending on deployment cycles.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications

• 5+ years experience in auto mechanics, heavy equipment installation, field service, or similar.

• Hands-on experience with wiring, harnessing, sensors, power systems, and safety circuits.

• Comfort working on large machines in demanding field environments.

• Strong safety mindset and attention to detail.

• Ability to work autonomously under ambiguous, high-pressure conditions.

• Willingness to travel internationally and domestically, often on short notice.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience deploying robotics, autonomous systems, heavy equipment, or industrial automation.

• Experience with safety-critical systems, emergency stops, lockout/tagout, or functional safety frameworks.

• Familiarity with hydraulics, GNSS systems, perception stacks, or motion control systems.

• Experience developing service manuals, install guides, or field engineering playbooks.

• OEM or dealer network experience (e.g., Komatsu, Caterpillar, Volvo).

How you’ll stand out

• You can turn ambiguous field failures into structured, repeatable engineering test cases.

• You operate calmly under pressure and lead customers through complex issues.

• You write clean documentation, and clean bug reports.

• You thrive in the dirt, in the logs, and in the details.

• You bridge the gap between engineering vision and field reality.

Why AIM?

Joining AIM, You Will

• Solve a massive set of real-world problems that require scalable earth moving

• Accomplish that via deploying and expanding cutting edge tech

• Run your workstreams with the largest degree of autonomy

• Have an opportunity for rapid growth and a large voice on the direction of the company

• Receive company funded medical, dental, vision, 401k, life insurance, gourmet food & perks

• Experience a strong onsite collaboration (AIM offices, labs and proving grounds on the east side of the Greater Seattle area)

• Have an opportunity to travel to unique sites around the world (Americas, Australia, Africa & more)