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Forward Deployed Engineer
Remote - United States · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in a highly technical engineering role, such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Resident Engineer, Systems Software Engineer, or Senior Systems Engineer.
About the job
Own technical success of strategic customer deployments by solving infrastructure challenges, writing code, and translating customer needs into product improvements.
What you'll do
- Partner with customer teams to optimize infrastructure performance and debug complex issues.
- Develop API endpoints, automation tools, and scripts to address customer workflows.
- Translate operational insights into product requirements and advocate for customer needs in the product roadmap.
What they ask for
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, high-performance file systems, storage protocols, and performance tuning.
- Strong understanding of high-throughput networking, including InfiniBand, RoCE, and 100GbE+ networking; advanced Linux systems knowledge.
- Proficiency in Python and C/C++, including ability to debug and contribute to a complex codebase.
- Customer-facing collaboration, strong communication, and ability to manage complex technical challenges.
Nice to have
- Experience operating large-scale AI training environments or HPC clusters.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
Tools
Python, C/C++, InfiniBand, RoCE, 100GbE+, Docker, Kubernetes, PyTorch
AI focus
Supports infrastructure for AI training and inference, including customer AI training environments and related workloads.
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