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Forward Deployed Engineer

QuadricBurlingame, CA (HQ)$170,000–$230,000Silicon Software & Tools
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The published floor of $170,000 is 1% below the Silicon Software & Tools median of $172,500. First seen on this site 2026-09-18, open 8 days.
Posted 2026-09-17 · read from ashby

Quadric is redefining edge AI with the industry's first General Purpose Neural Processing Unit (GPNPU), enabling developers to run both neural network inference and conventional C++ code on a single programmable architecture. Our technology powers intelligent edge devices across automotive, industrial, robotics, and embedded systems. Founded in 2016 and based in downtown Burlingame, California, Quadric is building the world's first supercomputer designed for the real-time needs of edge devices. Quadric aims to empower developers in every industry with superpowers to create tomorrow's technology, today. The company was co-founded by technologists from MIT and Carnegie Mellon, who were previously the technical co-founders of the Bitcoin computing company 21. THE OPPORTUNITY You'll own the technical path from customer evaluation to silicon design and win on a genuinely novel architecture, the Quadric Chimera GPNPU, which runs everything from CNNs to LLMs to arbitrary C++ on one core, with no fallback processor. Unlike a FAANG solutions role, you'll work the entire stack: quantization, custom kernels, and compiler and your fingerprints will be on chips that ship in cars, cameras, and network appliances. At a Series C company, every design win has outsized impact. Our FDEs also build with frontier agentic tooling (Claude Code–based agentic workflows) — you won't just be supporting the product, you'll be inventing how edge-AI field engineering is done.