Forward Deployed Engineer

Job Description

Forward Deployed Engineer
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**Company:** XDOF

**Location:** San Mateo, CA (in office 5 days per week)

**Compensation:** $230,000 - $310,000 + competitive equity

**Employment Type:** Full-time

**Visa Sponsorship:** Confirm with recruiter

### About XDOF

XDOF is the data engine for physical AI and embodied intelligence. It delivers high-quality teleoperation, on-embodiment and egocentric training data to frontier AI labs and humanoid robotics companies, paired with its own hardware ecosystem and a model fine-tuning loop.

Founded in 2023, XDOF has raised $17M and has about 20 people.

### The Role

XDOF is hiring a founding Forward Deployed Engineer (5-8 years) to own end-to-end delivery for its most strategic robotics and frontier AI customers. Think Palantir-style FDE: deeply technical, high agency and excellent with customers.

### What You Will Do

* Own end-to-end data delivery for strategic customers: pipeline understanding, data quality, scoping and QA before shipping.
* Act as first technical responder for your accounts and resolve most issues without escalation.
* Translate complex technical concepts for sophisticated robotics and AI customers.
* Turn recurring customer needs into product and pipeline improvements and reusable playbooks.
* Grow the forward-deployed motion into platform integrations and model fine-tuning and evaluation services.

### What You Bring

* 5-8 years as a customer-facing software engineer or forward deployed engineer
* Strong Python and data pipeline experience
* Ability to work independently in ambiguity
* Excellent customer communication

### Nice to Have

* Robotics or AI/ML data experience
* Familiarity with MCAP or HDF5 data formats

### Tech Stack

Python, data pipelines, robotics, AI/ML, MCAP, HDF5