Deployment Architect (Hardware Engineering)

Location: San Francisco, United States; on-site

Salary: $160K–$210K per year, plus equity

Company

Systems engineering platform for hardware teams that connects requirements, interfaces, tests, and design decisions in one live system.

What you will do

• Run customer deployments end to end, including kickoff, requirements migration, configuration, workflow redesign, training, and adoption.
• Drive organizational change within customer engineering organizations by identifying champions, removing blockers, and making adoption sustainable.
• Define deployment success criteria, measure adoption, diagnose stalled rollouts, and create recovery plans before renewal risk emerges.
• Design customer-specific platform setups and direct integration work with software-focused deployment engineers.
• Share deployment insights with the product team and partner with sales representatives on expansion opportunities.
• Build deployment playbooks, implementation guides, and training materials for future team members.

Requirements

• Professional customer-facing experience with customers, clients, or external partners in pre-sales, post-sales, deployment, consulting, or customer-facing engineering.
• Background in hardware engineering programs or systems engineering environments.
• Demonstrated experience making organizational change stick.
• Ability to communicate with systems engineers, hardware engineers, and executives.
• Experience managing long, multi-team rollouts with plans, milestones, stakeholders, and clear written status updates.
• Working-level familiarity with data migration, configuration, and APIs; willingness to work on-site in San Francisco.

Culture & Benefits

• Early-team role with significant ownership and ambiguity while the deployment function is being established.
• Opportunity to work across multiple hardware customers and help shape the future deployment methodology.
• Equity offered in addition to the stated salary.
• Collaboration with sales, product, engineering, and customer organizations.