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Forward Deployment Engineer
$208K–$300K
San Jose · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 3 years in the job offered or related occupations; 3 years in the specified skills; 1.25 years with datacenter-class and HPC server platforms.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, Network Engineering, or other closely related degrees.
About the job
Leads deployment and validation of accelerator-based datacenter systems, troubleshoots system-level failures, and improves deployment reliability and repeatability.
What you'll do
- Deploy, bring up, validate, and obtain customer acceptance for accelerator-based systems in datacenters.
- Diagnose hardware, firmware, Linux, driver, and networking issues; investigate field failures and drive corrective actions.
- Build deployment tools, diagnostics, telemetry, dashboards, and runbooks; coordinate updates and hotfixes with minimal downtime.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in a specified or closely related field.
- 3 years of experience in the job offered or related occupations.
- 3 years of experience in schematic review, PCB validation, high-speed interface debugging, Linux validation and documentation, C/C++ and Python, and power architecture troubleshooting.
- 1.25 years of experience bringing up, validating, and debugging datacenter-class and HPC server platforms.
Pay
$208,437.00 - $300,000.00 / year (base salary)
Tools
PCIe, SerDes, Linux, C/C++, Python, NVIDIA HGX / GB systems, TCP/IP, RDMA
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