Voltai
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Palo Alto Office +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 4, 2026
- Location
- Palo Alto Office
New York City - Experience
- 5+ years in backend engineering, full-stack development, or infrastructure/DevOps; internships and teaching assistantships do not count.
About the job
Own customer deployments of Voltai’s AI platform, build customer-specific features, and manage cloud and on-prem environments for semiconductor and electronics customers.
What you'll do
- Lead customer deployments across the San Francisco Bay Area, Cupertino, and Santa Clara.
- Develop features for customer workflows and port cloud-product features to on-prem environments.
- Set up, maintain, and troubleshoot deployments across cloud platforms and OpenShift.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in backend engineering, full-stack development, or infrastructure/DevOps; internships and teaching assistantships do not count.
- Familiarity with agent development and RAG.
- Strong systems design and debugging instincts.
- Comfort with the Docker ecosystem, cloud infrastructure, and IaC tools; willingness to travel, mostly in California.
Nice to have
- On-prem deployment experience in enterprise or air-gapped environments.
- Field engineering, solutions engineering, customer-facing technical, or EDA, semiconductor, or hardware-adjacent software experience.
Tools
Docker, AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenShift, IaC
AI focus
Develop and deliver models and agents for evaluating, designing, and interacting with hardware and electronic systems; deploy Voltai’s AI platform and develop customer-specific features.
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