# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company:** [Voltai](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/voltai)
**Location:** Palo Alto, CA, San Francisco, CA, Cupertino, CA, Santa Clara, CA
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Backend Engineering, Full-Stack Development, DevOps, Agent Development, RAG, System Design, Debugging, Docker, AWS, Azure, GCP, Iac, On-Prem Deployment
**Posted:** 2026-07-08

> Forward Deployed Engineer delivering AI platform for semiconductor and hardware companies. Own on-prem and cloud deployments (AWS/Azure/GCP), develop customer-specific features, and learn hardware design workflows. Requires 5+ years backend/full-stack/DevOps experience, agent/RAG familiarity, and strong systems/debugging skills.

## Job Description

## 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 not expected, but eagerness to familiarize with high-level hardware development required).

## What We're Seeking
- 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
- 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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