Broadcom

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer – AI & Developer Platform

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Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary technical bridge among enterprise developers, platform engineering, product management, and executive architects.
  • Design and standardize REST, gRPC, GraphQL, OpenAPI, Kubernetes CRD, SDK, and API gateway patterns.
  • Establish continuous delivery pipelines, GitOps workflows, self-service developer portals, CLI tools, testing harnesses, and automation frameworks.
  • Architect production environments for LLM inference, agentic frameworks, RAG pipelines, GPU clusters, and model-serving APIs.
  • Set execution patterns for containerized and orchestrated AI runtimes, vector databases, streaming systems, and caching layers.
  • Write production Go, Python, and TypeScript code for platform operators, custom controllers, API microservices, and AI wrappers.
  • Translate field developer friction into architectural requirements and influence product roadmaps.
  • Mentor the FDE organization on API design, developer documentation, and code quality standards.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years driving Developer Experience, API design, or AI platform architectures at scale.
  • 17+ years of total professional experience in technical software roles.
  • Authority-level expertise in API design, RESTful principles, gRPC, OpenAPI, and API gateway integration.
  • Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals, custom controllers, CRDs, Operator patterns, and Cluster API.
  • Experience establishing GitOps workflows and infrastructure-as-code automation.
  • Hands-on experience with LLM or generative AI application stacks, orchestration frameworks, vector databases, streaming systems, and caching layers.
  • Experience integrating virtualized GPU workloads, including NVIDIA vGPU, MIG, and GPUDirect RDMA, into developer-accessible APIs.
  • Advanced proficiency in Go, Python, and TypeScript/Node.js.
  • Fluency across EKS, GKE, AKS, OpenShift, Rancher, and standard application networking and storage abstractions.
  • Proven ability to work credibly with C-suite leaders while remaining hands-on with staff-level developers and systems engineers.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field preferred; relevant equivalent experience may substitute for the degree.

Benefits

  • Annual discretionary bonus and new-hire and annual equity awards, subject to applicable plan documents.
  • Medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • RRSP participation with company matching and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
  • Employee Assistance Program, company-paid holidays, paid sick leave, and vacation time.
  • The posting states that applicable leave-of-absence laws are followed.

Tech Stack

Apache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkGoGraphQLgRPCKubernetesNode.jsOpenShiftPythonRancherRedisTypeScript

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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