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Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

Digital Ocean Posted 3 months ago $195K - $239K

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About the role

The technical tip of the spear for the most strategic AI customers: deploying and scaling production AI systems across inference engines, runtimes, orchestration frameworks and applications. Staff level, so you would be shaping how these engagements work as well as running them.

Forward deployed work at this level is a view almost nobody else gets: how many different companies actually run AI in production, fed back into the platform. US remote, Python and Go with Kubernetes, vLLM and GPU work.

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