Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (ai/ml)

DigitalOcean

Seattle, United States
$140,000 - $174,000 py
On-site
Ai/ml architecture expertise
Distributed systems and infrastructure mastery
High-performance inference and hardware optimization
Partner deeply with strategic AI-Native customers to drive transformational AI adoption and build advanced AI applications

Job Summary

  • Partner deeply with strategic AI-Native customers to drive transformational AI adoption and build advanced AI applications.
  • Build scalable assets, migration scripts, and AI starter kits to accelerate 'time-to-inference' and inform the product roadmap.
  • Lead early testing of emerging AI frameworks and co-develop delivery frameworks with partners to enable repeatable, high-quality deployments.

Matching Summary

Partner deeply with strategic AI-Native customers to drive transformational AI adoption and build advanced AI applications.

Salary

$140,000 - $174,000

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • AI/ML architecture expertise
  • Distributed systems and infrastructure mastery
  • High-performance inference and hardware optimization
  • Production coding in Python or Go
  • Data-driven performance insight
  • Consultative execution with technical leaders

Nice-to-have

  • Experience with emerging AI orchestration frameworks
  • Background in technical consulting
  • Experience building Center of Excellence models
  • Active contributor to open-source AI projects

Key Requirements

  • Significant experience in AI/ML lifecycle
  • Expert proficiency in Kubernetes
  • Hands-on experience with distributed inference serving frameworks
  • Proven ability to benchmark AI infrastructure

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