Droyd

Test Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$110k-$150kDetected 42 days ago

Robotics

About the role

You will work across hardware setup, systems integration, demos, and pilot preparation, and over time help bridge the gap between internal testing and real-world deployment.
This is a highly practical role for someone comfortable working across software, systems, hardware setup, and field-style execution.
This role is based on-site in San Francisco, CA.

As a Test Forward Deployed Engineer at Droyd, you will help build, operate, and support test environments that mirror real deployments.
Build and maintain realistic test and demo environments
Support system setup, integration, and operational readiness for pilots and internal testing
Help manage hardware, infrastructure, and operational tooling needed for forward deployment
Support workflows that may later extend to teleoperators and field operations
We design and manufacture our hardware in-house, which means iteration, fabrication, and execution all happen under one roof.

Experience in forward deployed engineering, field engineering, solutions engineering, or technical operations
Experience with robotics, infrastructure, or hardware-adjacent systems
Experience supporting demos, pilots, or customer deployments
If we do this right, robots stop being demos and start being infrastructure.

Droyd builds autonomous robotic systems that automate repetitive manual work in real environments.
Our test team keeps demo and evaluation systems running, builds realistic test environments, and prepares the company for pilot deployments - spanning end effector testing, motor and firmware evaluation, demo execution, competitive bakeoffs, and eventually forward deployment and teleoperator coordination.

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