3h ago
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA
$195k-$239k / year
full-timesenior Remoteai-ml
๐ Tech Stack
๐ผ About This Role
You'll act as the technical tip of the spear for strategic AI-native customers, embedding directly with them to drive transformative AI adoption on DigitalOcean's GPU infrastructure. You'll build scalable tools, migration scripts, and AI starter kits that accelerate time-to-inference at scale.
๐ฏ What You'll Do
- Embed with strategic customers to manage complex migrations and build production-ready PoCs
- Create reusable tools like migration planners, benchmarking frameworks, and deployment scripts
- Develop AI starter kits using LangGraph, CrewAI, and notebooks for common business needs
- Act as frontline technical voice to inform product roadmap from field insights
๐ Requirements
- AI/ML architecture expertise with inference engines like vLLM, SGLang, or Modular
- Distributed systems mastery including Kubernetes, microservices, and Infrastructure as Code
- GPU optimization experience with CUDA, ROCm, TensorRT, and interconnect technologies
- Production coding in Python or Go building high-quality tools and automation
โจ Nice to Have
- Experience with LangGraph, CrewAI, or LlamaIndex
- Background in technical consulting or Forward Deployed roles
- Active contributor to open-source AI projects
๐ Benefits & Perks
- ๐๏ธ Unlimited PTO
- ๐ฅ Comprehensive health insurance
- ๐ Equity options
- ๐ Learning stipend
- ๐ป Remote-first culture
๐จ Hiring Process
Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks ยท AI estimate
- 1Recruiter Screenยท 30 min
- 2Hiring Manager Interviewยท 45 min
- 3Technical Interviewยท 60 min
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