Broadcom

Forward Deployed Engineer (Staff)

Broadcom
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Base Salary

$111k - $177k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate as an embedded engineering liaison among enterprise clients, product managers, architects, and core software teams.
  • Identify deployment and migration blockers, build and test field fixes, and turn customer feedback into prioritized platform features.
  • Own customer engagements from pre-migration discovery through production rollout and operational stabilization.
  • Write production code, build manifests, debug networking, storage, and GPU failures, and optimize VKS performance in live environments.
  • Architect and operate VKS clusters across VMware Cloud Foundation, hybrid cloud, and competing Kubernetes environments.
  • Lead migrations from bare-metal, legacy, and stateful platforms to VKS or cloud-native Kubernetes.
  • Deploy and scale AI inference, RAG, vector search, model-serving, data-processing, and distributed AI workloads.
  • Containerize and re-platform messaging, caching, data, analytics, and risk-calculation engines.
  • Apply Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes Operators, Cluster API, and GitOps for infrastructure and platform delivery.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of related experience.
  • Bachelor's degree preferred; relevant years of experience in lieu of a degree may be considered.
  • Experience working within or alongside core software or R&D organizations rather than purely in IT or professional services.
  • Proven experience leading long-term, complex engineering engagements with customer technical leadership and developers.
  • Ability to translate field requirements and 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 high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems, stateful workloads, messaging platforms, and analytics engines.
  • Deep knowledge of cloud-native data, AI, batch, real-time processing, orchestration, workflow, query, NoSQL, and vector technologies.
  • Technical depth across enterprise Kubernetes distributions including OpenShift, EKS, GKE, AKS, or Rancher RKE/RKS.
  • Advanced skills in Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes Operators, Cluster API, ArgoCD, and Flux.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • 401(K) participation with company matching.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program and Employee Assistance Program.
  • Discretionary annual bonus and competitive new-hire and annual equity awards.
  • Company-paid holidays, paid sick leave, vacation time, and applicable paid family and other leaves of absence.
  • Annual base salary range of USD 110,800.00 to USD 177,300.00.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache CassandraApache FlinkApache HadoopApache KafkaApache SparkElasticsearchHelmKubernetesOpenShiftPrestoRabbitMQRedisTerraformYarn

Categories

Forward Deployed
Broadcom

About Broadcom

10,000+ employees

Broadcom builds semiconductors and infrastructure software used in networking, wireless, broadband, storage, data centers, and enterprise IT. It sells chipsets to OEMs and cloud providers and licenses/subscribes infrastructure software for mainframe, cybersecurity, and private cloud environments. Headquartered in Palo Alto, it is a public company (NASDAQ: AVGO) and expanded its software portfolio by acquiring VMware in 2023.

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