Medra
Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer
$130K–$210K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
About the job
Delivers customer-specific scientific robotics deployments by integrating instruments, robots, and software, validating workflows, and feeding deployment learnings back into Medra’s platform.
What you'll do
- Own customer projects end to end, translating scientific workflows into technical requirements and delivering integrations and production software.
- Integrate, test, debug, and validate workflows in simulation, on physical robots, and at customer sites; resolve engineering blockers.
- Generalize deployment learnings into reusable integrations, tests, diagnostics, and tooling, and communicate technical decisions and risks.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production code.
- Demonstrated systems thinking, including designing, implementing, testing, or debugging interfaces in a production system.
- Experience delivering technical solutions with customers or users, from an ambiguous problem to a working solution in use.
- Clear written and verbal communication, including explaining technical tradeoffs and surfacing problems early.
Nice to have
- Experience shipping a product that combines software and hardware, or forward deployed engineering/customer implementations.
- Production code in Python, C++, or Rust; experience with APIs, distributed systems, integration testing, reliability, observability, deployment tooling, robotics, laboratory automation, or biology.
Pay
$130K – $210K (base salary)
Tools
Python, C++, Rust
AI focus
Deploys and extends a Physical AI Scientist platform that operates scientific instruments and supports autonomous scientific analysis and workflow execution.
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