CareerPlan

Forward Deployed Engineer

Campbell, United StatesFull-time2026-10-02 → 2026-11-13
Hybrid

Core

Embedded engineer working side-by-side with customer architects and operators to solve complex infrastructure issues, optimize throughput, and translate real-world requirements into product improvements.

Role type

Senior IC forward deployed systems engineer

Builds

Enterprise data platform for AI training and inference across data center, edge, and cloud

Domain

AI infrastructure, distributed storage, high-performance computing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

distributed systems, high-performance file systems, storage protocols, Linux internals, Python, C/C++, InfiniBand, RoCE, 100GbE networking

Preferred skills

large-scale AI training environments, HPC clusters, Docker, Kubernetes, PyTorch, TensorFlow

Responsibilities

Collaborate with customer technical teams to debug complex issues and optimize infrastructure throughput; Develop custom API endpoints, automation tools, or scripts to unblock critical workflows; Translate customer operational challenges into executable technical requirements for core development teams; Act as internal advocate to prioritize customer needs in the product roadmap

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC