Conduit
1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at Conduit. Curated with comp bands.
Comp on the board: $160K–$200K + equity.
On the board since Jul 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why Conduit
A robotics FDE bench being built three postings deep — hard-hat deployments on factory floors for startup equity and a respectable base.
- FDE type
- True forward-deployed
- Travel
- High
- Comp
- Competitive
- Stage
- Early-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Robotics and controls engineers who want customer-facing work
- People excited by manufacturing automation more than SaaS
- Candidates who want to be early on a new FDE org
What they do
Conduit builds FactoryOS, a platform that coordinates robots, machines and systems on a factory floor through one layer. The goal is to take automation from pilot to production in days rather than months.
What “forward deployed” means here
You deploy FactoryOS inside manufacturers' plants, which means physical integration, on-site debugging and working around real equipment. Parallel Vision & ML FDE and Edge Frameworks/FDE-tooling postings suggest a structured forward-deployed org forming, not a single hire.
Comp & leveling
The board shows $160K–$200K plus equity for an onsite San Francisco seat. That is competitive for early-stage robotics, and the equity is where the upside lives.
Growth signals
Three concurrent FDE-related roles is a strong signal that deployments, not R&D, are the current bottleneck. Robotics deployment is slow and capital-heavy, so ask how many plants are live today and how long each rollout takes.
Analysis updated 2026-09-24
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