Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - AI Infra - SF
Core
Lead complex deployments of frontier AI models in production, embedding with customers to solve optimization problems across semiconductors and AI infrastructure.
Role type
Senior IC Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Infra)
Builds
Production software, harnesses, integrations, and tools for chip design, verification, inference, and performance engineering.
Domain
Semiconductors and AI Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Production-grade software development and debugging, LLM/generative model deployment, experimental design and evaluation, system optimization, stakeholder management, ambiguity navigation, product sense
Preferred skills
Semiconductor development experience, data-center systems experience, inference engineering experience, applied machine learning, model behavior analysis
Technologies
Frontier models, LLMs, generative models, semiconductor tools, data-center systems
Responsibilities
Own technical delivery from scoping to production deployment, build and debug production software, design reproducible experiments and benchmarks, investigate model behavior and failure modes, contribute to core product development, lead technical discussions across teams, turn successful approaches into reusable tools.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
