Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Voltai; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Voltai is hiring for a backend/infra-focused engineer to deliver our AI platform across leading semiconductor and consumer electronics customers. You will own customer deployments across the SF Bay Area and NYC, port features from cloud to on-prem environments, and manage cloud deployments on AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenShift.

You should be eager to learn hardware development at a high level, collaborate with field teams, and design robust, scalable systems while maintaining reliable operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend engineering, full-stack development, or infrastructure/DevOps.
• Familiarity with agent development and RAG.
• Strong systems design and debugging instincts.

Responsibilities

• Own customer deployments at offices across SF Bay Area and NYC.
• Port features from cloud product to on-prem environments in locked-down infra.
• Manage cloud deployments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenShift: stand up, health checks, debugging.
• Learn about hardware design and connect with hardware development at a high level.

Skills

Backend engineering

Full-stack development

Infrastructure/DevOps

System design

Tools

Docker

AWS

Azure

GCP

OpenShift

Terraform

CloudFormation

IaC

Job description

This role is on-site in our San Francisco office (Atherton near Palo Alto) or hybrid in our New York City office.

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.
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 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 Seeking 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


• Strong systems design and debugging instincts


• 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

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