Forward Deployed Engineer
Code Metal2 months ago
Remote, United States +2 moreSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end deployment of validated customer solutions through implementation, integration, testing, and production acceptance.
- Work directly with customer engineers and operators to integrate workloads, understand operational constraints, and resolve deployment blockers.
- Productionize, optimize, test, and deploy DSP, RF, communications, and other compute-intensive pipelines on GPUs, FPGAs, and other accelerators.
- Profile, debug, and tune systems for latency, throughput, memory, and power across heterogeneous compute environments.
- Debug issues spanning algorithms, software, hardware, and toolchains.
- Collaborate with Solutions Engineers, Solutions Architects, product, and core engineering to resolve field issues and improve reusable platform capabilities.
- Build reusable deployment patterns and playbooks covering integration, testing, observability, and operations.
- Support on-site deployments and remain accountable for reliable customer delivery.
Requirements
- Experience in software engineering, systems engineering, or applied algorithm development.
- Strong programming ability in at least one of Python, C++, CUDA, Matlab, VHDL, Verilog, or Rust.
- Hands-on experience with GPU programming, FPGA development, embedded systems, or edge-computing environments.
- Experience with compute-intensive workloads such as DSP, RF, communications, or computer vision.
- Experience optimizing and deploying software on specialized or constrained hardware.
- Ability to debug complex systems across software and hardware boundaries and operate effectively in ambiguous environments.
- Comfort working directly with customers, communicating technical concepts clearly, and spending significant time embedded with customer teams.
- Experience delivering software or systems in defense, aerospace, industrial, or other mission-critical environments.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance; some assignments may require an active Top Secret clearance.
- At least 5 years of experience for the Senior track, 7 years for the Staff track, or 10 years for the Principal track.
Benefits
- Health care plan with 100% premium coverage, including medical, dental, and vision.
- 401k with 5% matching.
- Uncapped vacation, sick leave, and public holidays.
- Flexible hybrid or remote work arrangement.
- Relocation assistance for qualifying employees.
- Travel of approximately 30–75% depending on the customer.
- Pay depends on experience and is intended to be at the upper end of the salary range; the posting does not provide a numeric salary range.
About Code Metal
Code Metal builds an AI-assisted code transpilation and verification platform that translates algorithms into optimized implementations for heterogeneous hardware (GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, and edge SoCs). It serves defense, automotive, aerospace, and semiconductor teams deploying DSP, RF, communications, and embedded signal-processing workloads to constrained devices. Privately held and founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Boston, MA.