Ava Labs

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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2 months ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$143k - $179k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own technical delivery for named institutional partners from architecture and requirements through working implementation.
  • Design solutions across node and validator setup, failover, interoperability, networking, security controls, and the broader Avalanche stack.
  • Pair with Enterprise Go-to-Market on proofs of concept and translate commercial requirements into production-grade technical solutions.
  • Contribute to and maintain FDE developer tooling, SDKs, runbooks, technical documentation, and the FDE Protocol Requests database.
  • Respond to partner security assessments and technical diligence requests.
  • Identify reusable patterns from partner engagements and drive their abstraction into shared FDE artifacts.
  • Represent FDE externally, mentor teammates, and assume primary ownership of named partners as ramp completes.

Requirements

  • Hands-on depth across the Avalanche or comparable L1/L2 stack, including client implementation, EVM, cross-chain messaging, and validator infrastructure.
  • Ability to design and ship solutions across the stack without senior backup.
  • Proven ability to use modern coding assistants and agentic tooling to produce production-grade output.
  • Customer-facing maturity in enterprise or institutional settings and comfort engaging senior engineering stakeholders.
  • Strong documentation and operational discipline, including building runbooks and maintaining tracked partner artifacts.
  • Instinct for abstracting bespoke solutions into reusable products or tooling.

Categories

Forward DeployedSolutions Engineering
Ava Labs

About Ava Labs

51-200 employees

Ava Labs makes it simple to deploy high-performance solutions for Web3, led by innovations on Avalanche. The company was founded by Cornell computer scientists, who partnered with Wall Street veterans and early Web3 leaders to execute a promising vision for redefining the way people build and use open, permissionless networks. Ava Labs is redefining the way people create value with Web3.