Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

About the Foundation:

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.

The Role

We're looking for exceptional Forward Deployed Engineers to work directly with the organizations building the next generation of AI products on OpenClaw.

This is a highly technical, customer-facing engineering role. You'll embed with some of the most ambitious AI companies, Fortune 500 enterprises, research institutions, and infrastructure providers to help them deploy, customize, and scale OpenClaw in production.

You'll operate at the intersection of software engineering, distributed systems, AI infrastructure, product thinking, and customer success. Every engagement is different. One week you may be helping an enterprise deploy thousands of secure autonomous agents. The next you may be building custom orchestration layers, contributing features upstream into OpenClaw, or helping define new open standards for agent interoperability.

Success in this role requires exceptional engineering ability, strong communication skills, and a bias toward ownership. You'll become one of the primary technical representatives of the Foundation while helping shape the future of the OpenClaw ecosystem.

*This role will either be remote (based in the US), or onsite at our donors & sponsors' locations across the US.

What You'll Do

- Partner directly with customers to design and deploy production OpenClaw systems.

- Build custom integrations, infrastructure, and tooling to solve complex technical challenges.