# Forward Deployed Engineer at Quadric.io

- Company: Quadric.io
- What the company does: Your silicon. Your models. Your roadmap. Flexible AI accelerator IP that is powering the next generation of AI chips. Backed by Pear VC.
- Company website: https://www.quadric.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Burlingame, CA (HQ)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $170K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-27
- Apply by: 2026-12-11
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/quadric/07dd0440-54e5-4ecc-bfce-b82588cd6d60?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/quadric-io-forward-deployed-engineer-2/

## About the role

You'll own the technical path from customer evaluation to silicon design and win on a genuinely novel architecture, the Quadric Chimera GPNPU, which runs everything from CNNs to LLMs to arbitrary C++ on one core, with no fallback processor. Unlike a FAANG solutions role, you'll work the entire stack: quantization, custom kernels, and compiler and your fingerprints will be on chips that ship in cars, cameras, and network appliances. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Strong C++ and Python, has written performance-critical code for a constrained target (DSP, NPU, GPU, or embedded SoC)
- Systems-level performance intuition — memory bandwidth, data movement, cycle-level reasoning — and can read a profile and know where the time went
- High agency and independent problem-solving, methodical and empirical rather than theoretical
- Comfortable operating without a playbook and in ambiguity — this role is still being defined

Tags: Engineering Software

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/quadric-io-forward-deployed-engineer-2/