# Director, Forward Deployed Engineering at Viam

- Company: Viam
- What the company does: One platform for the entire robotics lifecycle. Multi-language SDKs, hardware abstracted into simple APIs, and fleet management from first prototype to global scale. Backed by USV.
- Company website: https://www.viam.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: New York, NY
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $225K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/viamrobotics/jobs/6146938004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/viam-director-forward-deployed-engineering/

## About the role

Hybrid 3 days/week in NYC office, with occasional travel to customer sites 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.

## What they're looking for

- Experience managing engineers who deploy software in customer environments
- Deep 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 day
- Judgment across systems integration, SDKs, and edge/cloud architectures, including what breaks when networks and hardware are unreliable
- A track record with enterprise customers, including the credibility to hold a hard conversation with their leadership
- Comfort deciding with incomplete information and owning the outcome
- Experience building structure where none existed, in an environment where most of the work is still bespoke

Tags: Product & Education