Forward Deployed Software Engineer
Forward-deployed engineer who embeds with hardware design/verification teams at client sites to scope, build, and deliver custom software tools, owning an assigned account end to end. Core stack: Python, HDLs, and low-level compiled code, with focus on performance optimization and AI-agent tooling.
- Compensation
- $150K–$300K / yr
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- University-level training in an engineering or computer science discipline
- Practical background in circuit design or verification at an electronics firm
- Programming work done inside a hardware-focused firm
- Fluency in hardware description languages; familiarity with simulation-based checking and fault diagnosis
- Proficiency in Python; experience shipping low-level compiled programs that run in client environments
- Background optimizing heavy computational or learning-driven software for speed and efficiency
- Hands-on experience using AI agent tools in daily engineering work
- Skill engaging client technical staff and leadership to pin down needs
Nice to have
- Exposure to formal methods, industry-standard verification frameworks, or licensed design software
- Experience customizing AI agents
- Prior field, solutions, or applications engineering experience in the hardware industry
- Skill writing automation scripts that streamline engineering workflows
- Know-how provisioning protected client systems and controlled data connections
- Experience in numerical or scientific computing, or C++ performance modeling
Full description
About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Embed with external engineering teams to scope, build and deliver custom software tools for their work, drawing on a hardware design or verification background. The role owns an assigned account from first problem discussion through to a working solution in the client's hands.
What you'll do
- Spend time at client facilities, or close by, working inside their design and verification groups to create new tools together.
- Take full responsibility for a designated client, from the first scoping conversation to a deliverable they actively use.
- Coordinate with internal research staff, subject specialists and client sponsors to convert on-site challenges into released features.
- Build software links between the product and the client's development, test and simulation setups.
- Travel frequently to client sites.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- University-level training in an engineering or computer science discipline.
- Practical background in circuit design or verification work at an electronics firm.
- Programming work done inside a hardware-focused firm.
- Fluency in hardware description languages and familiarity with simulation-based checking and fault diagnosis.
- Proficiency in Python, plus experience shipping low-level compiled programs that run inside client environments.
- Background in making heavy computational or learning-driven software run faster and leaner.
- Hands-on experience using AI agent tools in daily engineering work.
- Skill in engaging client technical staff and leadership to pin down needs and speak for the employer.
Bonus points
- Exposure to formal methods, industry-standard verification frameworks or licensed design software.
- Experience customizing AI agents.
- Prior field, solutions or applications engineering experience in the hardware industry.
- Skill writing automation scripts that streamline engineering workflows.
- Know-how provisioning protected client systems and controlled data connections.
- Experience in numerical or scientific computing, or with C++ performance modeling.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits