Principal Forward Deployed Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Thu, Oct 15, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
Serving as an elite technical authority, the full-time Principal Forward Deployed Engineer will engage with complex enterprise accounts to drive platform modernizations, large-scale migrations, and AI deployments, while working remotely.
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 topologies for mission-critical deployments
- Design and deploy systems for real-time AI inferencing and distributed AI runtime frameworks
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in high-consequence infrastructure or Kubernetes architectures
- Proven ability to command technical credibility 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 expertise in architecting high throughput, low latency stateful workloads on Kubernetes
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