About the role
The Senior Deployment Engineer owns a site and is the definitive expert on its state — from as-built conditions to open risks. From construction through commissioning to sustainment handoff, you are the technical authority on the ground — executing within the system the Deployment Lead defines, with full autonomous authority over site-level decisions — gate advancement, sequencing tradeoffs, and contractor direction — without requiring sign-off.
You will work closely with trade contractors, Deployment Engineers on your site team, and the Deployment Lead. The Deployment Lead provides day-to-day field direction and is your primary escalation point for cross-site issues and decisions that exceed site authority. You will interface directly with customer facilities and operations teams at key milestones — commissioning readiness reviews, SAT, and sustainment handoff — coordinated through various other teams including, but not limited to Project Engineering, Systems Engineering, Software, Sustainment, and Customer Success.
In practice, that means diagnosing unexpected site constraints — power, network, building conditions — and re-sequencing commissioning without losing the week. Isolating intermittent network instability across RF layout, DHCP planning, switching, and compute when the system won't stabilize. Catching SAT readiness risk late and recovering the plan before it becomes a customer miss. The common thread: ambiguous problems, real stakes, no one telling you the answer, and a permanent fix required.
What you’ll do:
- Own end-to-end site delivery from construction through commissioning to sustainment handoff
- Hold and enforce the commissioning readiness gate — reject advancement until evidence-based acceptance criteria are met
- Surface every deployment's learnings — escapes, as-built deltas, playbook gaps — with enough context for the Deployment Lead to systematize them into program-wide improvements
- Coach Deployment Engineers on rigorous gate execution and the standard of evidence required to advance commissioning milestones; set the quality bar for deployment artifacts across the site team
- Manage sequencing and scheduling across trade contractors to keep site progress on track
- For decisions that exceed site authority, escalate to the Deployment Lead with a complete decision packet: evidence, root-cause hypothesis, proposed options, and a clear decision ask
Ideal Candidates
- 5+ years of industry experience
- Proven cross-functional leadership: you've driven delivery across trades, internal engineering, and customer teams without formal authority over them
- Experience directing technicians or junior engineers on a site team — setting task direction, reviewing work quality, and closing gaps through coaching
- Ability to read electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, wiring diagrams, and construction blueprints
- Experience building and enforcing gate-driven QC and objective evidence capture
- Strong trade contractor management: scheduling, sequencing, and holding quality across multiple trades on a live site
- Comfortable executing independently in high-ambiguity environments and adapting on the fly
Nice to have:
- Network and IT infrastructure bring-up: DHCP/IP planning, Wi-Fi/AP layout, onsite compute preflight
- Experience in industrial, robotics, or automation environments
- Safety systems commissioning: machine guarding, E-stop circuits, safety controller bring-up; comfort in partially energized environments
- Demonstrated ability to scale field processes and train others into them
- Familiarity with industrial controls and electrical panel-building
- Familiarity with forklift certification and comfort around heavy equipment
A Final Note:
If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply — even if you don’t check every box. At Mytra, we build bots, but we hire humans. We value thoughtful challengers who communicate with clarity and respect, and we’re lifelong learners committed to getting better every day. We move fast, learn faster, and show up for each other under pressure. The best outcomes come from diverse perspectives working together to build something meaningful and built to last
Benefits Include:
- Competitive compensation and equity grants at a high-growth company backed by top-tier VCs
- Fully subsidized health coverage, including medical (baseline plans), dental, and vision for employees and dependents
- 401(k) plans and employer-subsidized life insurance
- Fully subsidized lunch and snacks at HQ—we eat and share stories together at the “long” table
- Generous PTO and company-paid holidays, including one week over the winter break so everyone can recharge together
- Voluntary pet insurance, Voluntary Life Insurance, Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
- Fully subsidized tax advisory services and education to help you understand your equity
- Commuter benefits, including a up to $150 monthly commuter benefit
- Lively, modern combined office and lab space where we rapidly iterate through design, build, and test phases
- Fully equipped onsite gym and showers at headquarters
Pay Notice
Compensation for this position will be set based on the candidate's experience level and location. The posted salary band is applicable only to the San Francisco Bay Area and is subject to change.
About Mytra:
We’re creating an entirely new way to solve the most ubiquitous problem in industry - moving and storing material. We’re applying robotics and distributed software to create a new class of product for this $1T market. We’re focused on the supply chain industry first. The industry is in a massive bind with the continued growth of e-commerce, sharp rise in costs, and supply chain disruptions. What has been a “sleepy” industry for decades is now at the epicenter of sustaining the global economy.