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About the Role

The OpenClaw Foundation is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to collaborate with organizations developing next-generation AI products on OpenClaw. This customer-facing role involves embedding with leading AI companies and enterprises to deploy, customize, and scale OpenClaw in production, operating at the intersection of software engineering, distributed systems, AI infrastructure, product thinking, and customer success.

Responsibilities

Partner directly with customers to design and deploy production OpenClaw systems.
Build custom integrations, infrastructure, and tooling to solve complex technical challenges.
Work across backend services, distributed systems, APIs, identity, security, orchestration, and cloud infrastructure.
Diagnose and resolve production issues, performance bottlenecks, and scaling challenges.
Contribute reusable improvements back into the OpenClaw open source platform.
Collaborate with Foundation maintainers to prioritize features based on ecosystem needs.
Help organizations migrate existing AI workflows onto OpenClaw.
Design deployment architectures across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments.
Create technical documentation, deployment guides, and reference implementations.
Become a trusted technical advisor for customers adopting OpenClaw.
Represent the Foundation within the broader open source community.

Requirements

4-15+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong experience with Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar modern languages.
Experience deploying distributed systems in production.
Deep understanding of APIs, networking, authentication, cloud infrastructure, and backend architecture.
Experience working directly with customers, users, or cross-functional stakeholders.
Strong debugging and systems-thinking skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication.
Ability to travel occasionally for customer engagements, conferences, or Foundation events.
Experience building AI agents, LLM applications, or agent frameworks.
Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or infrastructure-as-code experience.
Experience with retrieval systems, vector databases, or AI infrastructure.
Experience contributing to open source software.
Knowledge of security, identity, permissions, or distributed authorization systems.
Experience with multi-agent orchestration platforms.
Previous experience in solutions engineering, developer relations, or forward deployed engineering.

Skills

Python
Go
Rust
TypeScript
APIs
Networking
Authentication
Cloud infrastructure
Backend architecture
Debugging
Systems thinking
AI agents
LLM applications
Agent frameworks
Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform
Infrastructure-as-code
Retrieval systems
Vector databases
AI infrastructure
Open source software
Security
Identity
Permissions
Distributed authorization systems
Multi-agent orchestration platforms
Solutions engineering
Developer relations
Forward deployed engineering

Location

Remote (US-based)
Onsite (US)

Work Type

Remote
Onsite

Experience Level

4-15+ years of professional software engineering experience

About the Company

The OpenClaw Foundation is the steward of the world's largest open source AI agent project.
Its mission is grounded in a foundational conviction: that AI must be open, safe, and ultimately owned by the individuals and communities who use it.
The Foundation operates across three core mandates: Advancing research into the human-agent relationship while continuously evolving the OpenClaw platform; Maintaining and hardening the codebase to ensure security, reliability, and long-term sustainability; Establishing interoperability standards for the emerging agent era, defining how agents configure, communicate, establish trust, transact, and represent user identity across ecosystems.
Modeled after the governance structures that shaped the open web and modern computing infrastructure, the Foundation serves as a neutral, multi-stakeholder convening body — the equivalent of W3C or the Linux Foundation for the agentic AI era.
Major laboratories and infrastructure providers collaborate under its umbrella on shared, vendor-neutral infrastructure, with no single organization controlling the roadmap or direction.
The OpenClaw Foundation believes that individuals should have full sovereignty over their AI: their data, their interactions, and the behavior and personality of their agents.
Open source is not incidental to this mission but central to it — code must remain free to use, modify, and build upon.
The future of agentic AI will be defined by a broad, developer-driven community, not prescribed by any single commercial interest.