Standard Bots
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
$215K–$275K
San Francisco, CA · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and improve Standard Bots’ SDKs, external APIs, and robot-control platform while working on site with a major customer and turning field issues into reliable product capabilities.
What you'll do
- Own technical direction for programmatic robot control, including streaming APIs, the Python SDK, ROS 2 integration, and safety limits.
- Diagnose customer-site issues and deliver tested, production-ready fixes across services, SDKs, adapters, and robot controllers.
- Serve as the customer’s technical point of contact and translate customer needs and field findings into product requirements and roadmap input.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including end-to-end ownership of a technical problem space and leadership of complex cross-team work.
- Fluency in Python and TypeScript/Node.js.
- Experience debugging distributed systems across Linux, containers, networking, logs, and timing.
- Direct experience with demanding technical customers and clear written communication.
Nice to have
- Working knowledge of ROS 2.
- Hands-on experience with robot control interfaces, streaming or trajectory APIs, or motion control at 100 Hz and above; familiarity with safety stops and collision handling.
Pay
$215,000 to $275,000 USD base salary; $215K – $275K (base salary)
Tools
Python, TypeScript/Node.js, React, C++, Kubernetes, ROS 2, Linux
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