Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

We’re looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy our robots into customer warehouses. You’ll use our tech stack to set up, run, and debug our systems on-site, as well as be customer facing. This role doesn’t require contributing to our codebase. New graduates are welcome to apply.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Robotics generalist with a software background and a strong willingness to learn.
• Comfort working in Linux and running commands from the command line.
• Familiarity with robot hardware.
• Electrical debugging skills.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites and work in warehouse environments.
• Personable and comfortable talking with customers.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with ROS/ROS 2.
• Familiarity with AMRs, robot arms, or humanoid platforms.
• Experience with warehouse automation systems.

Things that make you an ideal fit:

• You enjoy being in the field and solving problems as they come up.
• You take ownership of a deployment until it runs reliably for the customer.

What we value

• Can-do attitude: I’ve never seen someone achieve an ambitious goal they didn’t believe was possible. A can-do attitude is a prerequisite for doing great things.
• Ownership: You care about the quality of your work and see your projects through.
• Urgency: You keep projects moving and are comfortable working at a startup pace.

About the interview
We will conduct 3-4 interviews with various members of our team evaluating your skills and past projects. The final interview will cover administrative details and the logistics of the hire.

About Yondu

Yondu is creating the robotic workforce of the future starting with logistics automation. We're deploying humanoid robots in the first flexible, drop-in picking automation solution designed for 3PLs. Our approach is building robot foundation models to enable off the shelf robots to do these tasks autonomously. To train these models, we're building our own teleoperation system in house. Finally, there's a whole stack of classical robotics and integration work to make our systems work in the real world . Learning constantly and keeping up with SOTA research is one of the pillars of our company's culture. The company was founded by MIT students and has raised seed funding after graduating from the YC W24 batch. Join us in shaping the way the world works.