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Bucket Robotics is hiring a Forward Deploy Engineer to work at the boundary between our core engineering team and real manufacturing deployments. You’ll spend most of your time in San Francisco building alongside our engineers—but regularly travel to customer sites across the U.S. to deploy, debug, and harden our system in real production environments.

This role is ideal for an engineer who wants to see their work leave the laptop and show up on factory floors—integrating cameras, models, and workflows with real constraints, real operators, and real uptime requirements.

Responsibilities

Deploy Bucket’s vision systems at customer manufacturing sites
Work directly with customers during onboarding, pilots, and early production runs
Integrate cameras, edge devices, and models into real production workflows
Debug issues spanning software, ML models, hardware, lighting, and environment
Serve as the technical owner for in-field issues from discovery through resolution
Collaborate closely with the core engineering team to reproduce issues and ship fixes
Translate real-world deployment pain points into actionable product and platform improvements
Build deployment playbooks, checklists, and internal tooling to make future rollouts faster and more reliable
Support technical evaluations alongside sales and leadership without being a sales role

Required Qualifications

2+ years experience in software engineering, robotics, systems, or field-facing engineering roles
Strong programming skills in Python
Comfortable debugging complex systems across hardware and software boundaries

Bucket Robotics builds deployable computer vision systems for manufacturing — without labeling, long pilots, or fragile rules. We turn CAD and sample data into production-ready vision models that run on existing cameras and edge hardware. No manual labeling. No cold-start problem. Models deploy in minutes and adapt as parts, defects, and lines change.

Our roots are in self-driving cars (Argo AI, Uber ATG, Stack AV), where we learned how to ship perception systems that operators trust in messy, real-world environments. We’re applying that playbook to factories: robust sensing, fast iteration, and tooling engineers actually enjoy using.

Manufacturers struggle with inspection because parts are too variable for rules-based vision and too expensive to inspect by hand. Legacy systems are rigid, hardware-locked, and slow to customize. We take the opposite approach: software-first vision that fits into existing automation and scales across SKUs, facilities, and workflows.

American Manufacturing is in the middle of a $700B automation push — but quality is still a trust problem. Bucket Robotics is building the vision infrastructure that lets factories automate inspection with confidence.

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