Principal Forward Deployed Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Tue, Oct 06, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
Acting as a senior extension of R&D in the field, the full-time Principal Forward Deployed Engineer will serve as a technical authority and enterprise strategist, focusing on critical platform modernizations and AI deployments while working remotely.
Key Responsibilities
- Bridge core engineering and enterprise customer architects as the primary technical authority
- Architect and validate production-grade topologies for mission-critical deployments
- Design and deploy systems for real-time AI inferencing and manage large-scale migration strategies
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on infrastructure and distributed systems
- Proven ability to engage with C-suite stakeholders while maintaining hands-on production code expertise
- Mastery of Kubernetes mechanics and cloud-native primitives
- Extensive experience in architecting AI inferencing pipelines and GPU environments
- Track record of successful legacy to cloud-native migration strategies
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