3h ago

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

Seattle, WA

$195k-$239k / year

full-timesenior Hybridai-ml

๐Ÿ›  Tech Stack

๐Ÿ’ผ About This Role

You'll be embedded with strategic AI-native customers to drive transformational AI adoption on DigitalOcean's cloud. You'll build tools, migration scripts, and AI starter kits that scale the AI Cloud ecosystem, accelerating time-to-inference at scale. You'll serve as a critical feedback loop, ensuring the product roadmap is informed by the world's most demanding AI workloads.

๐ŸŽฏ What You'll Do

  • Partner with strategic AI-native customers on complex migrations and production PoCs
  • Build reusable tools: migration planners, benchmarking frameworks, deployment automation
  • Develop AI starter kits and solution templates using LangGraph, CrewAI
  • Surface architectural gaps to inform core product roadmap

๐Ÿ“‹ Requirements

  • Significant experience in AI/ML lifecycle with inference engines like vLLM, SGLang
  • Expert proficiency in Kubernetes and distributed systems design
  • Hands-on experience with distributed inference serving frameworks like NVIDIA Dynamo
  • Strong production coding skills in Python or Go

โœจ Nice to Have

  • Experience with AI orchestration frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI
  • Background in technical consulting or Forward Deployed roles
  • Active contributor to open-source AI projects

๐ŸŽ Benefits & Perks

  • ๐Ÿ–๏ธ Unlimited PTO
  • ๐Ÿฅ Health insurance
  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Stock options
  • ๐Ÿ’ป Remote work flexibility
  • ๐Ÿ“š Professional development budget

๐Ÿ“จ Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks ยท AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter callยท 30 min
  2. 2Technical screenยท 60 min
  3. 3On-site interviewsยท 4 hours
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