Clera

Forward Deployed Engineer

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3 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$180k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead deployment cycles spanning data collection, model fine-tuning, physical system setup, and production monitoring.
  • Diagnose and resolve hardware, software, perception, and integration issues in field and production environments.
  • Collect operational data and failure modes to inform foundation model training and architecture.
  • Troubleshoot integrations across perception hardware, compute stacks, and edge deployment environments.
  • Travel to customer sites across the United States and adapt to changing deployment schedules.

Requirements

  • Two to eight years of hands-on experience deploying robotics or automation systems in factory, warehouse, or logistics environments.
  • Experience in field engineering, forward deployed engineering, robotics deployment, ML or AI operations, or customer-facing technical work.
  • Practical debugging experience with cameras, depth sensors, tactile sensors, or pressure sensors.
  • Some exposure to Vision-Language-Action models or learned robot policies; academic or lab experience is relevant.
  • Hands-on ability to work across hardware and software from data collection through production fixes.
  • Willingness to travel 50 to 75 percent and work from the San Francisco office about three days per week.
  • Experience with GPU compute stacks and edge deployment is helpful.
  • Korean language proficiency is helpful.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $180,000 to $220,000 annually, plus an early-stage equity grant.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Hybrid work in San Francisco with about three office days per week and frequent travel to customer sites across the United States.
  • H-1B transfers are supported, but new visa sponsorship is not available.

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