# Forward Deploy Engineer at Bucket Robotics

- Company: Bucket Robotics (YC S24)
- What the company does: Defect detection for manufacturing built from CAD and synthetic data. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://bucket.bot
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $100K to $120K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bucket-robotics/jobs/va6hXZz-forward-deploy-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/bucket-robotics-forward-deploy-engineer/

## About the role

Bucket Robotics is hiring a Forward Deploy Engineer to work at the boundary between our core engineering team and real manufacturing deployments. You’ll spend most of your time in San Francisco building alongside our engineers—but regularly travel to customer sites across the U.S. to deploy, debug, and harden our system in real production environments.

## What they're looking for

- 2+ years experience in software engineering, robotics, systems, or field-facing engineering roles
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Comfortable debugging complex systems across hardware and software boundaries
- Experience working directly with customers in technical environments
- Enjoys wearing many hats and operating in fast-moving, ambiguous situations
- Willingness to travel ~30% of the time to customer sites across the U.S

Tags: Engineering