Robotics Deployment Engineer — Real-World Systems

Menlo; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Menlo seeks a Deployment Engineer to tackle real customer and deployment problems end to end, from workflow understanding to field diagnostic failures. You will work directly with robotic systems in real environments where variability and constraints are the norm.

This role emphasizes turning deployment friction into research questions and building reusable capabilities across the stack. You will collaborate with core research and platform teams to translate field learnings into scalable

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in at least one technical domain: perception, navigation, manipulation, or teleoperation.
• Experience deploying AI, robotics, or embodied systems in real environments.
• Comfortable working outside your specialization when deployment demands it.
• Experience collecting, cleaning, or curating deployment data for model improvement.
• Experience designing evaluations or benchmarks for systems that interact with real-world environments.
• Able to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Energized by ambiguity, motivated by ownership, and wants to see work survive contact with the real world.

Responsibilities

• Own real customer and deployment problems end to end, from understanding the workflow to diagnosing failures in the field
• Work directly with robotic systems in commercial and industrial environments where variability, ambiguity, and operational constraints are the norm
• Translate deployment friction into research and product questions: what capability is missing, what data is needed, what evaluation should exist, what part of the stack must improve
• Build and adapt systems across the deployment loop, including data collection, task-specific fine-tuning, and evaluation design
• Collaborate closely with core research and platform teams so field learnings become reusable capabilities instead of one-off fixes
• Contribute domain expertise to a broader forward deployment practice where knowledge is shared across deployments and specializations
• Help define the operating model for how humanoid systems are deployed, improved, and scaled

Skills

Perception

Navigation

Manipulation

Teleoperation

AI deployment

Robotics in real envs

Communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

Menlo seeks a Deployment Engineer to tackle real customer and deployment problems end to end, from workflow understanding to field diagnostic failures. You will work directly with robotic systems in real environments where variability and constraints are the norm.

This role emphasizes turning deployment friction into research questions and building reusable capabilities across the stack. You will collaborate with core research and platform teams to translate field learnings into scalable