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Forward Deployed Engineer
Seattle · 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, with customer-facing collaboration.
About the job
Own the technical success of strategic customer deployments, collaborating on infrastructure challenges and translating operational needs into product improvements.
What you'll do
- Partner with customer teams to optimize infrastructure, troubleshoot issues, and support production deployments.
- Develop API endpoints, automation tools, and scripts to address customer workflows.
- Translate customer challenges into technical requirements and advocate for customer needs in product planning.
What they ask for
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, high-performance file systems, storage protocols, and performance tuning.
- Strong understanding of InfiniBand, RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet), and 100GbE+ networking.
- Advanced knowledge of Linux systems architecture, memory management, and kernel mechanics.
- Proficiency in Python and C/C++, and ability to work with complex codebases.
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 (RDMA over Converged Ethernet), 100GbE+, Docker, Kubernetes, PyTorch
AI focus
Support infrastructure deployments for AI training and inference, including work with large-scale AI training environments and AI/ML frameworks.
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