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Forward Deployed Engineer
Noble Machines
$140–195K / year · Sunnyvale, California, US
Noble Machines builds general-purpose humanoid robots for hazardous and physically demanding industrial tasks, deploying to Fortune Global 500 customers within 18 months of founding.
Noble Machines is a robotics engineering company founded in 2024, building general-purpose humanoid robots designed to perform hazardous and physically demanding industrial tasks. Its founding team comprises engineers drawn from Apple, SpaceX, NASA, and Caltech - an pedigree that has enabled rapid progress in physical AI, AI-driven whole-body control, and end-to-end autonomy.
The company's humanoid robots feature modular end-effectors, a 23kg payload capacity, and 5-hour battery life, with the ability to navigate complex environments including stairs, scaffolding, and unstable terrain. They can acquire new skills through language instructions, demonstrations, and feedback. Within just 18 months of founding, Noble Machines secured deployment with a Fortune Global 500 industrial customer.
Noble Machines targets sectors where hazardous conditions and demanding physical work constrain human productivity - construction, manufacturing, semiconductor, energy, mining, and logistics. The company operates at the intersection of industrial automation and advanced AI, positioning its technology to address labour-intensive and high-risk workflows at scale.