Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - SF

Voltai Inc.; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Voltai Inc. is seeking a skilled engineer to deliver their AI platform to semiconductor and consumer electronics companies. Located in Palo Alto, this role involves managing customer deployments, developing integrations, and ensuring cloud deployments run smoothly across various platforms.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in backend engineering or full-stack development and is familiar with cloud infrastructure. A thirst for learning about hardware design is essential, along with a willingness to travel mainly within California.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend engineering, full-stack development, or infrastructure/DevOps.
• Fluency in at least one mainstream backend language (Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript).
• Comfortable with Docker and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Own customer deployments across the SF Bay Area.
• Develop features and integrations for customer workflows.
• Manage cloud deployments across multiple platforms.
• Learn about hardware design.

Skills

Backend engineering

Full-stack development

Infrastructure/DevOps

Fluency in backend languages

Docker ecosystem

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

OpenShift

IaC tools

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 the world's leading semiconductor and consumer electronics companies, and collaborate with them to develop new features. (This is not an exaggeration.)

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.

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