# Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at XDOF

- Company: XDOF
- What the company does: Defining motion for autonomous systems. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://www.xdof.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Mateo Hybrid
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2025-12-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/xdof/cd508d93-5ae9-486a-a633-48402ef1fe53
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/xdof-forward-deployed-engineer-fde/

## About the role

We're hiring our founding Forward Deployed Engineers. You'll embed with our most strategic customers and own their success end-to-end, from translating their model and data needs into concrete collection / annotation / delivery specs, to making sure the data we ship actually moves their model performance.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of engineering experience , ideally including customer-facing or forward-deployed work
- Founding-engineer profile, strongly preferred: you've owned many things at once and solved hard problems without a playbook, and you want to talk to customers
- Strong production coding (Python preferred), with real experience shipping and operating data pipelines or infrastructure
- High agency and comfort with ambiguity: you drive customer outcomes rather than wait for a spec
- Excellent communication and low ego: you can run discovery, push back respectfully on unrealistic asks, and explain hard tradeoffs to both engineers and executives

Tags: Software Engineering