Forward Deployed Engineer

Voltai; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Voltai is seeking a skilled backend engineer to deploy our AI platform for top semiconductor and consumer electronics companies. This role involves collaboration on new feature development and customer deployments in the Bay Area.

With a focus on cloud infrastructure management and an eagerness to learn about hardware design, the ideal candidate will have over 5 years of relevant experience. Voltai offers an exciting environment backed by industry leaders and a team filled with top talent.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend engineering, full-stack development, or infrastructure/DevOps.
• Familiarity with agent development and RAG.
• Fluency in a mainstream backend language (Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript).
• Comfortable with cloud infrastructure and Docker ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Own customer deployments at offices across the SF Bay Area.
• Develop features specific to customer workflows.
• Manage cloud deployments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenShift.
• Learn about hardware design at a high-level.

Skills

Backend engineering

Full-stack development

Infrastructure/DevOps

Agent development

Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Docker ecosystem

IaC tools

Python or TypeScript

Job description

This role requires you to be in our Palo Alto office (Atherton) and travel to customer sites in the Bay Area.

The Role

You'll deliver our AI platform to the world's leading semiconductor and consumer electronics companies, and collaborate with them to develop new features.

About Voltai

Voltai is developing models and agents to evaluate, design, and interact with hardware and electronic systems.

The Team

We'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 Do

• Own customer deployments at offices across the SF Bay Area, Cupertino, and Santa Clara.
• Develop features and integrations 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 For

• We care about how you think, not how you keyword-match.
• 5+ years in backend engineering, full-stack development, or infrastructure/DevOps: internships and teaching assistantships don't count.
• Familiarity with agent development and RAG.
• Fluency in at least one mainstream backend language (Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, etc.) and familiarity with either Python or TypeScript.
• Comfortable with the Docker ecosystem, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), and IaC tools.
• Willingness to travel, mostly in California.

Bonus Points For

• On-prem deployment experience in enterprise or air-gapped environments.
• Prior field engineering, solutions engineering, or customer-facing technical roles.
• Experience in EDA, semiconductor, or hardware-adjacent software environments.