Broadcom

Forward Deployed Engineer (Staff)

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21 hours ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
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Base Salary

$111k - $177k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed with enterprise technical teams from pre-migration discovery through production rollout and stabilization.
  • Write production code, build prototype integrations and manifests, troubleshoot live networking, storage, and GPU failures, and optimize VKS performance.
  • Architect, deploy, and maintain VKS clusters across VMware Cloud Foundation and hybrid cloud infrastructure.
  • Lead migrations from bare-metal, legacy, and data platforms to VKS or cloud-native Kubernetes targets.
  • Deploy 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.
  • Provide field-tested feedback and prioritized feature requirements to product managers and core engineering teams.
  • Guide customers operating VKS alongside OpenShift, EKS, GKE, AKS, and Rancher distributions.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of related experience.
  • Bachelor's degree preferred; relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
  • Experience working within or alongside core software or R&D engineering organizations rather than only IT or professional services.
  • Proven experience managing long-term, complex customer engineering engagements and translating customer requirements into product specifications.
  • Hands-on experience with GPU-accelerated Kubernetes, model-serving runtimes, vector databases, and distributed AI orchestration.
  • Experience containerizing and operating distributed systems, stateful workloads, messaging and streaming platforms, caching systems, and analytics engines.
  • Deep experience deploying, tuning, and scaling cloud-native data, AI, orchestration, workflow, query, NoSQL, and vector technologies.
  • Technical proficiency across multiple enterprise Kubernetes distributions and infrastructure-as-code, Helm, operators, Cluster API, and GitOps tooling.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of USD 110,800.00 to USD 177,300.00, plus a discretionary annual bonus and equity opportunities.
  • 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.

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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