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Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Fri, Sep 04, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Serving as an elite technical authority, the full-time Principal Forward Deployed Engineer will embed with complex enterprise accounts to manage critical platform modernizations, large-scale workload migrations, and mission-critical AI inferencing deployments in a remote capacity.

Key Responsibilities
  • Act as the primary technical authority bridging core engineering and C-level enterprise customer architects
  • Architect and validate production-grade Kubernetes and VMware Cloud topologies for mission-critical deployments
  • Design and deploy systems for real-time AI inferencing and distributed AI runtime frameworks across GPU clusters
Required Qualifications
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in infrastructure, distributed systems, or AI platforms
  • Proven ability to engage with C-suite stakeholders while remaining hands-on in production code
  • Mastery of Kubernetes mechanics, Custom Resource Definitions, and GitOps architecture
  • Extensive experience with AI inferencing pipelines and virtualized GPU environments
  • Deep experience in migrating legacy systems to cloud-native architectures

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