# Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

About XDOF XDOF is the data engine for embodied intelligence. We help the world's leading robotics and foundation-model labs unlock general-purpose robots by delivering the highest-quality teleoperation, on-embodiment, and egocentric data and paired with our own hardware ecosystem and a model fine-tuning loop that closes the loop on data quality. We recently emerged from stealth and are scaling our customer base of frontier AI and humanoid companies quickly. 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. This is a critical role that today, our founders and core engineers absorb directly. As an FDE, you'll be the single technical owner for a portfolio of accounts, sitting at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development, and you'll help define our forward-deployed motion as we grow. What you'll do Own end-to-end delivery for a set of strategic customers: scope requirements, sequence delivery

- **Id**: 734595
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/xdof-forward-deployed-engineer-fde>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Mateo, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2025-12-24T07:04:17Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2025-12-24
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T14:18:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 322
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2833
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Robotics AI, AI Training Data & Annotation

## Company

- **Id**: 686707
- **Name**: XDOF
- **Domain**: xdof.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/xdof>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 23
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.435
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 49
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 180000
- **Max**: 290000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 290000

## Technologies

- **Embodied AI** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Teleoperation** — Optional: no
- **Vision-Language-Action** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 321

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T10:41:34Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 4; Filings 12m: 4

## Liveness

- **Score**: 14
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.491
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 321
- **Expected fill days**: 49
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 290000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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