Field Deployment Engineer, Robotic Teleoperations

Doist; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Figure is an AI robotics company headquartered in San Jose, CA, seeking a hands-on Deployment Engineer for the TeleOperation team. You will manage deployment challenges across our teleoperation system for robot data collection and serve as the on-site liaison between field operations and core engineering.

The role requires travel to active data collection sites across the country (regular Bay Area travel and ~25% nationwide travel).

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years in automotive or industrial automation robotics integration, deployment and development.
• Engineering degree.
• Strong judgment and execution in high‑pressure situations.
• Experience coordinating with stakeholders and customers.
• Familiarity with Linux and Python or similar coding languages.

Responsibilities

• Support engineering with deployment as on‑site representative to meet development goals.
• Provide hands‑on support to teleoperations team to unblock issues and coach troubleshooting.
• Execute robot commissioning and testing at customer sites, tracking collections and debugging.
• Triage hardware and software issues, document learnings, drive fixes across engineering teams.
• Plan and execute logistics of deploying early‑stage robotic systems to homes and apartments.
• Lead site operations with robot operators, ensuring tools and spares are available.
• Communicate site health trends and updates to engineers and leadership.

Skills

Robotics deployment

Judgment under pressure

Stakeholder management

Product lifecycle

Python

Linux

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Confluence

Jira

Job description

Figure is an AI robotics company headquartered in San Jose, CA, seeking a hands-on Deployment Engineer for the TeleOperation team. You will manage deployment challenges across our teleoperation system for robot data collection and serve as the on-site liaison between field operations and core engineering.

The role requires travel to active data collection sites across the country (regular Bay Area travel and ~25% nationwide travel).