Director of Forward Deployed Engineering

• We’re looking for a Director of Forward Deployed Engineering to lead the team responsible for getting Viam’s customers into production. You’ll manage a team of five engineers working across our most strategic accounts, own the technical approach to each deployment, and serve as the senior technical partner to our customers’ engineering and operations leaders
• You’ll spend your time on architecture decisions, design reviews, coaching, and customer conversations
• Manage a team of five forward deployed engineers: coaching, performance, hiring, and how they are resourced across accounts
• Own the technical approach across deployments and make the architecture and prioritization calls
• Be the senior technical voice with customer leadership, from kickoff through escalation
• Work with Viam leadership on account direction, and keep them current on progress, risks, and blockers
• Drive deployments to production: hold the schedule, unblock what’s stuck, and change approach when a site demands it
• Turn field learnings into platform priorities with Product and Engineering

Benefits

• Learning & development education reimbursements
• Training & mentorship opportunities
• 100% of medical, dental, and vision benefits covered
• Flexible work from home and office balance
• 20 weeks gender neutral parental leave
• Personal prosperity and family planning benefits
• Employee resource groups
• Catered lunch in the office
• Commuting benefits

This is a leadership role for someone who is still technicalPrior professional robotics experience isn’t required, but you should be comfortable around hardware and physical systems, and able to get fluent in a new platform quicklyWillingness to balance one customer’s urgency against what scales across the portfolioJudgment across systems integration, SDKs, and edge/cloud architectures, including what breaks when networks and hardware are unreliableDeep systems experience and the ability to get fluent in an unfamiliar platform quickly. You can review a design and read code, though you won’t be coding day to dayExperience managing engineers who deploy software in customer environmentsComfort deciding with incomplete information and owning the outcomeExperience building structure where none existed, in an environment where most of the work is still bespokeA track record with enterprise customers, including the credibility to hold a hard conversation with their leadershipExperience with robotics or IoT is not required