Remote Forward-Deployed AI Systems Engineer

The OpenClaw Foundation; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

The OpenClaw Foundation in the United States seeks an exceptional Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with leading AI companies, research institutions, and infrastructure providers. You will deploy, customize, and scale OpenClaw in production, bridging software engineering with customer success.

You will operate at the intersection of software engineering, distributed systems, AI infrastructure, product thinking, and customer success.

Qualifications

• 4-15+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience with Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar modern languages.
• Experience deploying distributed systems in production.
• Deep understanding of APIs, networking, authentication, cloud infrastructure, and backend architecture.
• Experience working directly with customers, users, or cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong debugging and systems-thinking skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Ability to travel occasionally for customer engagements, conferences, or Foundation events.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with customers to design and deploy production OpenClaw systems.
• Build custom integrations, infrastructure, and tooling to solve complex technical challenges.
• Work across backend services, distributed systems, APIs, identity, security, orchestration, and cloud infrastructure.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues, performance bottlenecks, and scaling challenges.
• Contribute reusable improvements back into the OpenClaw open source platform.
• Collaborate with Foundation maintainers to prioritize features based on ecosystem needs.
• Help organizations migrate existing AI workflows onto OpenClaw.
• Design deployment architectures across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments.
• Create technical documentation, deployment guides, and reference implementations.
• Become a trusted technical advisor for customers adopting OpenClaw.
• Represent the Foundation within the broader open source community.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Distributed systems

Debugging

Customer engagement

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

The OpenClaw Foundation in the United States seeks an exceptional Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with leading AI companies, research institutions, and infrastructure providers. You will deploy, customize, and scale OpenClaw in production, bridging software engineering with customer success.

You will operate at the intersection of software engineering, distributed systems, AI infrastructure, product thinking, and customer success.