Principal Forward Deployed Engineer - AI PlatformPrincipal Forward Deployed Engineer - AI Platform/Kubernetes/Pytorch
Red Hat2 hours ago
Singapore, SingaporeStaff+
Responsibilities
- Embed with strategic customers and partners to resolve identity, data pipeline, networking, and air-gapped integration challenges.
- Architect and implement secure, production-grade AI platform extensions and distributed inference solutions.
- Prototype and harden RAG pipelines, autonomous agent architectures, and customer integrations into scalable production systems.
- Contribute upstream code to cloud-native AI, model-serving, distributed systems, orchestration, and MLOps open-source projects.
- Bridge APAC customer requirements with global engineering and product teams and influence core enterprise AI products.
- Monitor testing, reliability, performance telemetry, security evaluations, and operational edge cases for large-scale AI systems.
- Lead product-area initiatives, evolve software delivery practices, and mentor engineers across the organization.
- Develop hardware-optimized inference plugins, distributed scheduling systems, enterprise data pipelines, or secure Agentic AI lifecycles depending on specialization.
Requirements
- Exceptional proficiency in C/C++, Go, and Python with a record of shipping optimized, robustly tested production code.
- Active upstream contributor or maintainer in relevant deep learning, distributed computing, scheduler, or container-orchestration communities.
- Hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks, model fine-tuning including LoRA, QLoRA, and SFT, model serving, and LLM orchestration.
- Strong Kubernetes or enterprise container platform architecture experience, including CRDs, custom operators, and multi-subsystem integrations.
- Experience with hardware-level optimization, CUDA, ROCm, driver compilation, and GPU/NPU operator configuration.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in systems engineering, distributed computing, platform engineering, or AI/ML software development.
- Demonstrated technical strategy leadership, mentorship of senior technical staff, and experience improving software delivery and testing practices.
- Ability to work with enterprise architects and C-suite technologists while addressing privacy, compliance, security, and regulatory requirements.
- Deep capability in at least one focus area: hardware heterogeneity and sovereign AI, or AI platform primitives and distributed systems.
Benefits
- Founding-member opportunity in an elite APAC AI engineering squad backed by the Singapore Economic Development Board.
- Global influence through contributions to product strategy, core enterprise AI products, and open-source ecosystems.
- Work with advanced AI hardware integrations, autonomous agentic runtimes, and sovereign AI architectures.
- Red Hat supports flexible work environments ranging from in-office and office-flex to fully remote depending on role requirements.
- Red Hat provides reasonable accommodations and operates an inclusive equal-opportunity workplace.
About Red Hat
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