Broadcom

Forward Deployed Engineer (Staff)

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21 hours ago
Remote, United States +2 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$111k - $177k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Work as an embedded engineering liaison between enterprise client teams, product managers, architects, and core software teams.
  • Identify deployment and migration blockers, build field fixes and prototype integrations, and feed validated requirements into product development.
  • Own customer engagements from pre-migration discovery through go-live and operational stabilization.
  • Write production code, build manifests, troubleshoot live networking, storage, GPU, and Kubernetes issues, and optimize VKS performance.
  • Architect, deploy, and maintain production VKS clusters across VMware Cloud Foundation and hybrid cloud environments.
  • Lead migrations from bare-metal, legacy platforms, and legacy data stacks to VKS or cloud-native Kubernetes targets.
  • Deploy, tune, and scale AI inferencing, RAG, vector search, and model-serving workloads using virtualized GPU resources.
  • Containerize, refactor, and migrate stateful engines, message brokers, distributed caches, and analytics platforms onto Kubernetes.
  • Architect operator-driven cloud-native deployments for data processing, orchestration, and distributed AI frameworks.
  • Guide customers operating VKS alongside OpenShift, EKS, GKE, AKS, and Rancher distributions.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of related experience.
  • Hands-on experience with full-lifecycle enterprise engineering engagements and direct collaboration with customer technical teams.
  • Experience translating customer requirements and field workarounds into product specifications and feature requests.
  • Hands-on experience with GPU-accelerated Kubernetes nodes, model-serving runtimes, vector databases, and distributed AI orchestration.
  • Experience containerizing and operating distributed caching, in-memory grids, messaging, streaming, analytics, and stateful workloads.
  • Deep technical knowledge of deploying, tuning, and scaling containerized data services, AI engines, and orchestration platforms.
  • Technical proficiency across competing enterprise Kubernetes distributions.
  • Advanced skills in Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes Operators, Cluster API, and GitOps tools.
  • Bachelor's degree preferred; relevant experience in lieu of a degree may be considered.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of USD 110,800.00 to USD 177,300.00.
  • Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus and new-hire and annual equity awards, subject to plan documents and award agreements.
  • Medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • 401(k) participation with company matching and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
  • Employee Assistance Program, company-paid holidays, paid sick leave, vacation time, and applicable paid family and other leaves of absence.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache CassandraApache FlinkApache HadoopApache KafkaApache SparkElasticsearchHelmKubernetesOpenShiftPrestoRabbitMQRedisTerraformYarn

Categories

Forward Deployed
Broadcom

About Broadcom

10,000+ employees

Broadcom provides semiconductors and infrastructure software for global organizations’ complex, mission-critical needs. We combine long-term R&D investment with superb execution to deliver the best technology, at scale. Through focus and expertise, Broadcom sets the standard in industries where technology breakthroughs shape markets. Our semiconductor and semiconductor-based solutions serve markets across networking connectivity, wireless device connectivity, servers and storage systems, broadband, and industrial. Broadcom’s infrastructure software solutions serve markets including private cloud, mainframe software, cybersecurity, enterprise software, and Fibre Channel storage area network management. With these core technologies, we help customers accelerate their innovation.

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