3h ago

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA

$195k-$239k / year

full-timesenior Remoteai-ml

๐Ÿ›  Tech Stack

๐Ÿ’ผ 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.

๐ŸŽฏ 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

๐Ÿ“‹ 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

โœจ Nice to Have

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

๐ŸŽ Benefits & Perks

  • ๐Ÿ–๏ธ Unlimited PTO
  • ๐Ÿฅ Comprehensive health insurance
  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Equity options
  • ๐Ÿ“š Learning stipend
  • ๐Ÿ’ป Remote-first culture

๐Ÿ“จ Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks ยท AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter Screenยท 30 min
  2. 2Hiring Manager Interviewยท 45 min
  3. 3Technical Interviewยท 60 min
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