3h ago
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
Seattle, WA
$195k-$239k / year
full-timesenior Hybridai-ml
๐ Tech Stack
๐ผ 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.
๐ฏ 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
๐ 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
โจ 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
๐ Benefits & Perks
- ๐๏ธ Unlimited PTO
- ๐ฅ Health insurance
- ๐ Stock options
- ๐ป Remote work flexibility
- ๐ Professional development budget
๐จ Hiring Process
Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks ยท AI estimate
- 1Recruiter callยท 30 min
- 2Technical screenยท 60 min
- 3On-site interviewsยท 4 hours
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