Dexterity

Forward Deployed Engineer

Dexterity
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1 year ago
Redwood City, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$130k - $170k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead new solution introductions and pilot operations at customer sites, resolving issues, meeting KPIs, and preparing deployments to scale.
  • Improve system performance by translating field experience into better robotic systems, learning, and robot skills.
  • Diagnose and resolve incidents using logs, telemetry, SQL/NoSQL data, container metrics, staging reproduction, workarounds, and scripted fixes.
  • Tune alerts and dashboards, perform anomaly and trend analysis, and improve observability of deployed systems.
  • Serve as the technical point of contact for strategic customer sites during go-live, upgrades, and complex issue investigations.
  • Develop integrations, robotic skills, tooling, diagnostic scripts, SOPs, runbooks, and self-service documentation.
  • Own NPI software commissioning at customer sites, including tooling setup, system testing, and calibration.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, third-party partners, customers, and application services teams on feature hardening, reliability, and field enablement.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, robotics, engineering, or a related discipline, or relevant/equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 2 years of experience in SaaS, DevOps, Site Reliability, or Application Support roles handling customer-facing production systems.
  • Proficiency in Python or C++ with experience implementing a substantial project or product feature.
  • Ability to work across the full robotics stack, from sensors and hardware to software, and perform system-level analysis and debugging.
  • Experience working with logs, telemetry, data querying, visualization, support tools, and observability platforms.
  • Familiarity with Grafana, Kibana, Foxglove, ArgoCD, or comparable observability and support platforms.
  • Nice-to-have experience includes AI/ML inference platforms, Linux, networking, containers, cloud services, message queues, industrial automation, warehouse management systems, CI/CD workflows, feature flags, robot kinematics, and perception pipelines.
  • Ability to communicate technical findings clearly to customers and collaborate across teams.
  • Willingness to work extended hours, customer-site assignments, and on-call rotations for high-severity incidents.

Benefits

  • Redwood City, California location with office, lab-floor, and warehouse work.
  • Frequent travel to customer locations, typically with 50% of time spent on-site.
  • On-site work may involve temperature variation, industrial noise, prolonged standing, or walking.
  • Extended hours and on-call rotations may be required for high-severity incidents.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureBashC++DockerGitHub ActionsGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKibanaKubernetesLinuxPythonRobot FrameworkSQL

Categories

Forward Deployed
Dexterity

About Dexterity

51-200 employees

Dexterity builds full-stack robotic systems and a Physical AI software platform for enterprise logistics and supply chain operations. Its Mech systems, powered by the Foresight world model, automate workflows such as trailer loading/unloading and airport baggage handling for parcel, e-commerce, retail, and aviation customers. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Dexterity operates in the U.S., Japan, and Singapore with production deployments in high-volume environments.

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