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Our robots work with existing lab equipment to automate physical workflows, from transporting well plates to loading instruments, without requiring customers to rebuild their facilities.\nWe’re looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to take ownership of building, integrating, and deploying these systems. You’ll work directly with the founders, moving between our workshop and customer laboratories to turn prototypes into reliable working robots.\nOur hardware work includes UFactory xArm7 and I2RT YAM arms, Intel RealSense cameras, mobile platforms, and custom fixtures and end-effectors. You’ll design parts, assemble electronics, troubleshoot failures, and work alongside scientists to make the complete system work in their environment.\nSuccess means the lab can rely on the robot after you leave the site.\nResponsibilities\nDesign and fabricate hardware: Create grippers, camera mounts, instrument interfaces, and fixtures in CAD; prototype using 3D printing, machining, and other fabrication methods.\n\nBuild and integrate systems: Assemble robotic arms, mobile platforms, sensors, compute, networking, and power electronics. Build wiring harnesses, solder connections, and diagnose electrical faults.\n\nDeploy at customer laboratories: Own preparation, installation, testing, and handover. Adapt systems to real workspace constraints, instrument access, and customer workflows.\n\nResolve failures across the stack: Investigate mechanical alignment, camera calibration, wiring, networking, and software issues until the complete workflow runs reliably.\n\nImprove the next deployment: Turn field experience into hardware changes, better testing, and clear assembly, deployment, and maintenance documentation.\n\nQualifications\nYou have built and debugged a physical robotic or electromechanical system end to end, and can explain what you personally designed, assembled, and made work.\nStrong CAD and mechanical design skills, with practical experience in fabrication and rapid prototyping.\nHands-on experience with electronics, wiring, soldering, and electrical debugging, plus the ability to investigate problems across hardware and software.\nComfortable taking ownership of open-ended engineering problems, communicating directly with customers, and travelling regularly for deployments.\nPractical hardware experience is essential\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with robotic arms, mobile robots, or industrial automation; ROS 2 and Linux; camera and sensor calibration; or commissioning and supporting hardware at customer sites. Experience with laboratory equipment is valuable but not required.\nAbout Neuromorphic\nNeuromorphic is a YC S26 robotics company based in San Francisco, with systems already deployed in some of the biggest laboratories in the US.\nWe believe laboratories should be able to automate using the infrastructure they already have. We’re a small, founder-led engineering team building robots around that principle, with a direct connection between what we build in the workshop and what customers use in their labs.\nThis is an opportunity to help shape both our robots and how we deploy them.\nWhen applying, include an example of hardware you’ve built (photos, a video, or a project write-up) and describe your contribution.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3442,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-11T15:33:27Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":20,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-12T03:03:59Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":150000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/neuromorphic-forward-deployed-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/neuromorphic-forward-deployed-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-12T03:03:59Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4570,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3780047},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3780047"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fneuromorphic-forward-deployed-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fneuromorphic-forward-deployed-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fneuromorphic-forward-deployed-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/neuromorphic-forward-deployed-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fneuromorphic-forward-deployed-engineer"}]}