Broadcom

Forward Deployed Engineer (Principal)

Broadcom
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Remote, United States or New York, NY, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$111k - $177k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical architecture across core engineering, product management, executive leadership, and enterprise customer architects.
  • Design and validate production vSphere Kubernetes Service and VMware Cloud Foundation topologies.
  • Build and deploy real-time LLM inference systems, RAG pipelines, and distributed AI runtimes on GPU clusters.
  • Lead migrations from legacy bare-metal, mainframe, stateful, and AI environments to Kubernetes-based platforms.
  • Write production operators, CRDs, prototype integrations, and other infrastructure code, contributing upstream to core engineering codebases.
  • Define patterns for distributed stateful systems, data fabrics, multi-cloud interoperability, GitOps, and Cluster API deployments.
  • Translate customer pain points and field patterns into product requirements and roadmap priorities.
  • Establish deployment standards and mentor Senior and Staff FDEs.

Requirements

  • 17+ years of related experience required, including significant experience with infrastructure, distributed systems, AI platforms, or Kubernetes architectures.
  • Bachelor's degree preferred; relevant years of experience in lieu of a degree may be considered.
  • Expertise with Kubernetes internals, CRDs, Operators, Cluster API, GitOps, ArgoCD, and Flux.
  • Experience architecting AI inference pipelines, virtualized GPU environments, NVIDIA vGPU, MIG, GPUDirect RDMA, vLLM, TGI, and Triton.
  • Experience with distributed systems and platforms including Ray, 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.
  • Hands-on Go, Python, or Java development for infrastructure, Kubernetes controllers, AI wrappers, or automation frameworks.
  • Experience with OpenShift, EKS, GKE, AKS, Rancher RKE/RKS, CSI, CNI, RDMA, InfiniBand, and RoCEv2.
  • Demonstrated ability to work with C-suite stakeholders while remaining hands-on with production code and customer engineering teams.
  • Track record of large-scale legacy-to-cloud-native migrations and technical leadership across complex enterprise environments.

Benefits

  • Annual discretionary bonus and new-hire and annual equity awards, subject to applicable plans and agreements.
  • Medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • 401(k) participation with company matching and Employee Stock Purchase Program.
  • Employee Assistance Program, company-paid holidays, paid sick leave, vacation time, and applicable paid family and other leave.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkGoJavaKubernetesOpenShiftPrestoPythonRabbitMQRancherRedis

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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