Senior Field Hardware Engineer: Robotics & Embedded Systems

Somana; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Catered lunch and snacks

Pet-friendly office

Health, Dental, Life, Vision benefits,

Job summary

Somana seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Hardware Engineer to design, validate, and deploy edge compute, camera, robotics, and data systems across manufacturing environments in NYC or SF. You’ll operate at the intersection of hardware, firmware, software, and AI, delivering high-throughput, reliable solutions in real-world plant settings.

This role emphasizes field deployments, customer collaboration, and end-to-end ownership from design decisions to observability, with competitive salary and

Qualifications

• BS in CS, Electrical/Computer Engineering, MechE, Physics or related experience.
• At least 4 years of industry experience as a Hardware, Firmware, or Mechanical Engineer in a mixed HW+SW product team.
• Proficiency in at least one systems programming language (Rust, C, C++).
• Ability to work effectively across hardware and software teams.
• Intellectual curiosity and the drive to understand problems deeply, whether from a technical, business, or client angle.
• Exceptional collaboration and documentation skills - you can write crisply about design decisions and tradeoffs, and make async teams better through clear artifacts.
• Take initiative, solve problems, and know when to escape. Move quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality.

Responsibilities

• Travel to customer locations including test ranges, manufacturing facilities, and air-gapped data centers. Partner directly with customer engineering and IT teams to ensure successful deployments.
• Build repeatable deployment patterns across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. Reduce complexity and improve reliability as we grow.
• Work with internal R&D to identify priorities and high-impact infrastructure and deployment challenges.
• Capture logs, failure modes, and field learnings, and relay actionable feedback to engineering to drive product improvements and observability.
• Balance customer success with speed, reliability, and long-term maintainability when making technical decisions.
• Sweat the details that matter in this domain: perceived latency, interaction feedback, and graceful degradation when connectivity drops, because on a factory floor a flaky network is the default, not the exception.

Skills

Rust

C

C++

Systems programming

Cross-functional teamwork

Problem solving

Documentation

Education

BS in CS, Electrical/Computer Engineering, MechE, Physics or related

Job description

Somana seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Hardware Engineer to design, validate, and deploy edge compute, camera, robotics, and data systems across manufacturing environments in NYC or SF. You’ll operate at the intersection of hardware, firmware, software, and AI, delivering high-throughput, reliable solutions in real-world plant settings.

This role emphasizes field deployments, customer collaboration, and end-to-end ownership from design decisions to observability, with competitive salary and