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Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer

Black Forest Labs· GTM
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Hybrid (Freiburg or SF)€120k - €180k + equityfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer to embed with customers, ship real integrations on robots, and feed learnings back into models and roadmap. High-ownership role balancing hardware, software, and customer collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with customers to design and ship integrations, finetunes, and interfaces on top of BFL's models, including action / VLA models from first prototype to production.
  • Get models running well in the customer's environment: latency and output quality on real robots, across on-prem and BFL-hosted deployments, including real-time and on-device / edge constraints.
  • Find the highest-value use cases with customers and prototype solutions fast.
  • Identify and own opportunities to expand BFL's technologies into new domains.
  • Prototype novel techniques from recent research papers in close collaboration with our research team

Qualifications

  • Proven track record as a robotics engineer, forward deployed engineer or technical founder
  • Experience working directly with customers, iterating on solutions and providing tailored support for serving generative AI models
  • Hands-on experience with action / VLA models and the surrounding open ecosystem (e.g. π0/π0.5, LeRobot), including imitation/reinforcement learning or policy learning
  • Ability to work on a broad class of engineering problems, from model hosting and backend engineering to building intuitive frontends and UI
  • Excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with non-technical stakeholders internally and externally, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple terms to both technical and non-technical audiences

Skills

Required:Customer-facing engineeringRobotics engineering with action / VLA modelsModel hosting / backend engineeringCommunication
Nice to have:Frontend/UI development

Benefits

  • Reasonable travel costs covered for in-person collaboration
  • Hybrid/onsite work options with flexible in-person requirements (Freiburg or SF)
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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