Forward Deployed Systems Engineer
Core
Deploy, validate, and debug Etched accelerator-based systems in large-scale datacenter environments to support inference workloads.
Role type
Senior IC systems engineer (datacenter deployment)
Builds
Production AI inference systems (chips, racks, software)
Domain
AI infrastructure / Datacenter hardware
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Linux/Unix installation and debugging, high-speed networking (100GbE/400GbE, RDMA), root-cause analysis, firmware update coordination, BMC/telemetry monitoring, hardware/software integration diagnostics
Preferred skills
Field engineering experience, RMA/failure analysis, process improvement for deployments
Technologies
Linux, RDMA, 100GbE, 400GbE, BMC, firmware stacks
Responsibilities
Drive customer deployments and identify risks, debug system-level issues across hardware/firmware/OS/networking, perform root-cause analysis and ship fixes, coordinate firmware updates and rollouts, create deployment runbooks and documentation, partner with engineering teams to improve reliability, improve deployment workflows and metrics
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
