Technical Deployment Lead, Semiconductors

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Travel 25–50%

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in San Francisco is seeking a Technical Deployment Lead to own end-to-end delivery of complex semiconductor deployments, from scoping to adoption. You will embed with customers, map workflows, and coordinate across FDE, Researchers, and Customer Engineers to meet milestones.

This high-trust role requires 7+ years of customer-facing delivery leadership, deep semiconductor experience, and the ability to translate strategy into executable plans.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership.
• Deep expertise in Semiconductor workflows including RTL design, verification, EDA tooling, and physical implementation.
• Track record leading large, high-stakes engagements with AI involvement.
• Ability to simplify complex, ambiguous problems and map to actionable plans.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical delivery plan for multiple interdependent work streams with milestones and acceptance criteria.
• Run day-to-day engineering execution across FDE and customer teams to keep progress unblocked.
• Embed with Semiconductor customer teams to land production deployments and drive adoption.
• Shape deployments that integrate with customer infrastructure and toolchains (export-controlled environments).
• Partner with Product and Research to land platform components on time for deployment goals.
• Codify patterns and extract field signals to improve product and models.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Semiconductor workflows

AI/LLM systems

Executive communication

Technical fluency

Project management

Tools

EDA tooling

Job description

About the Team

the company’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team turns research breakthroughs into production-grade systems. We embed deeply with customers to solve high-leverage problems and act as the delivery engine for our most complex large-scale engagements. We move quickly from prototype to production and surface reusable patterns that shape our platform. We operate at the intersection of deployment and development – working closely with the company Research, Product and Partnerships.

About the Role

As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will define how the company delivers complex systems to Semiconductor customers. You will own how solutions are scoped, built, shipped, and adopted across high-value engineering workflows such as RTL design, verification, and physical implementation. You’ll translate business outcomes into a technical plan, run day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partner with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals.

You will focus on the semiconductor vertical to deploy next-generation AI capabilities. You will own delivery end-to-end: embedding with customers to map workflows and success criteria, ensuring components ship on time, and leading readiness and change management for adoption. You’ll track progress, manage dependencies, make sequencing decisions, and drive 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale. You will also share field insights with Product and Research to guide roadmap and priorities.

Success will be measured first and foremost by impact - deployments that deliver measurable value against customer goals, drive adoption, and become critical to their workflows. Additional measures of success include delivery reliability (milestones hit, low reopen/churn), operating leverage (patterns reused across deployments), judgment under pressure, and product impact (field signal that shifts roadmaps/architectures).

This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role. Success requires deep technical project management expertise, extreme ownership of outcomes, and an ability to immerse in customer workflows and partner with customer teams to solve complex engineering problems at pace.

This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. Travel between 25-50% is required.

In this role, you will:

• Own the technical delivery plan for multiple interdependent work streams, translating customer objectives into a roadmap with milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Run day-to-day engineering execution by tracking and driving delivery across the company FDE and customer teams. Keep progress unblocked and sequenced. Make real-time trade-offs on scope and priority to protect the critical path.
• Embed with Semiconductor customer teams to land production deployments and drive adoption. Map workflows, shape tools/integrations, and translate requirements into a delivery plan.
• Shape production deployments that integrate with customer infrastructure, data systems, and engineering toolchains, including export-controlled environments.
• Partner with Product and Research so platform components and research work streams land in time to support deployment goals.
• Codify solution patterns and evals. Extract reusable patterns and package field signals to improve product and models.
• Own value cases and ROI. Set impact hypotheses, baselines, and KPIs; run pre-/post-deployment measurement and report to exec sponsors.
• Help define how the company engages Semiconductor customers.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Bring 7+ years of customer‑facing technical delivery leadership.
• Have deep expertise in Semiconductor workflows, including RTL design, verification, EDA tooling, and physical implementation.
• Track record of successfully leading large, complex, high-stakes customer engagements where customer outcomes depended on tight coordination and fast decision making, ideally involving AI.
• Excel in high ambiguity environments. Know how to simplify complex and dynamic work.
• Move fluidly between system level understanding and execution level detail; can dive into customer workflows/data, map constraints, sketch architectures and move ambiguous problems to shipped systems.
• Think strategically and pattern-match. Able to step back from execution detail, recognize broader trends across deployments, and connect customer needs to scalable, reusable solutions.
• Have strong technical fluency and sharp sequencing instincts. Confident discussing technical details, pressure-testing architectures, and making trade-offs.
• Have shipped AI/LLM systems. You understand solution patterns, integration basics, and production pitfalls.
• You’re a translator with executive presence. You make complex technical trade-offs legible to business leaders and convert strategy into day-to-day technical execution.
• Enjoy being onsite with customers to accelerate delivery (often 25-50%, sometimes higher).

About the company

the company is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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