# Forward Deployed Engineer

About Mind: Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion. About the Role We’re hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to be our hands and eyes onsite at a key customer in Normal, IL. You’ll be responsible for our fleet of data collection devices - diagnosing and repairing devices, provisioning new hardware, troubleshooting networking, and running the diagnostic workflows that keep the system healthy. This role will start with critical robot data collection devices and then transition into robot deployment support. This is a forward-deployed role with strong support from HQ. You won’t be alone: our engineering team is one Slack message away, and you’ll work closely with them to escalate complex issues, ship fixes back into the product, and bring the voice of the customer into our roadm

- **Id**: 679243
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mindrobotics-forward-deployed-engineer>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Normal, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-06-10T21:46:54Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-06-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T14:40:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 149
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4581
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Robotics AI, Industrial Robotics

## Company

- **Id**: 678470
- **Name**: Mind Robotics
- **Domain**: mindrobotics.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mindrobotics>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 28
- **Ghost share**: 0.286
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 53
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 88000
- **Max usd**: 196000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 4589

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **DHCP** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Physical AI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Slack** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Tcpdump** — Optional: no
- **Wi-Fi** — Optional: no
- **Ansible** — Optional: yes
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 149

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-10T23:17:49Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 12
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.412
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 149
- **Expected fill days**: 53
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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