Broadcom

Forward Deployed Engineer (Principal)

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21 hours ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$132k - $212k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary technical authority connecting core engineering, product management, executive leadership, and enterprise customer architects.
  • Architect, scale, and validate production vSphere Kubernetes Service and VMware Cloud Foundation topologies for mission-critical and regulated deployments.
  • Design and deploy real-time LLM inferencing, Retrieval Augmented Generation pipelines, and distributed AI runtime systems across GPU clusters.
  • Lead large-scale migrations from legacy bare-metal, mainframe, stateful, and fragmented AI environments to cloud-native Kubernetes platforms.
  • Develop production operators, custom resource definitions, prototype integrations, and other field code, and upstream contributions into core infrastructure software.
  • Translate customer pain points and field patterns into product requirements and multi-year product roadmap priorities.
  • Establish deployment standards, GitOps frameworks, and Cluster API and Operator patterns while mentoring Senior and Staff Forward Deployed Engineers.

Requirements

  • 17+ years of related experience is required, including experience leading high-consequence infrastructure, distributed systems, AI platforms, or Kubernetes architectures at scale.
  • Proven ability to work credibly with C-suite stakeholders while remaining hands-on with production code and staff-level engineers.
  • Deep expertise in Kubernetes internals, Custom Resource Definitions, Kubernetes Operators, Cluster API, and GitOps frameworks.
  • Experience with GPU infrastructure and AI inferencing technologies including NVIDIA vGPU, MIG, GPUDirect RDMA, vLLM, TGI, and Triton.
  • Expertise running high-throughput, low-latency stateful workloads and distributed systems on Kubernetes.
  • Experience with Ray, vLLM, SGLang, LeaderWorkerSets, vLLM-Orchestrator, Milvus, Qdrant, Pinecone, Apache Cassandra, ScyllaDB, Oracle Coherence, Hazelcast, Redis, Apache Ignite, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Dask, and Trino/Presto.
  • Demonstrated success migrating complex enterprise monoliths, mainframe or bare-metal systems, and siloed AI hardware to cloud-native platforms with zero-downtime pathways.
  • Hands-on systems and platform development experience in Go, Python, or Java.
  • Fluency across OpenShift, EKS, GKE, AKS, Rancher RKE/RKS, and networking and storage technologies including CSI, CNI, RDMA, InfiniBand, and RoCEv2.
  • A bachelor's degree is preferred; relevant experience in lieu of a degree may be considered.

Benefits

  • Annual discretionary bonus and new-hire and annual equity award opportunities are available in addition to base salary.
  • Medical, dental, and vision plans are offered.
  • 401(k) participation with company matching is available.
  • Employees may participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Program and Employee Assistance Program.
  • Company-paid holidays, paid sick leave, vacation time, and applicable paid family and other leaves are provided.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkGoJavaKubernetesOpenShiftPrestoPythonRabbitMQRancherRedis

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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