Senior Forward Deployed Engineer II (AI/ML)

📋 Description

• Partner with strategic ANEs and AI startups to architect, deploy, optimize, and scale production AI
• Optimize distributed inference and runtime performance through benchmarking, GPU efficiency tuning
• Act as the 'first customer' for DigitalOcean’s AI-native platform capabilities including Inference
• Build scalable deployment assets including benchmarking systems, automation tooling, AI starter
• Collaborate with GPU vendors, model providers, infrastructure partners, and ISVs on co-development
• Ability to travel up to 30% for customer engagements, strategic onsite workshops, ecosystem

🎯 Requirements

• Experience designing and operationalizing production AI systems including inference workloads
• Strong hands-on experience with inference and serving frameworks such as vLLM, SGLang, Ray Serve
• Deep expertise with NVIDIA and AMD GPU platforms and their software ecosystems including CUDA
• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes (K8s), distributed systems, networking, storage systems
• Experience with AI orchestration and agent frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, MCP ecosystems
• Strong production coding skills in Python or Go with experience building tooling, automation

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive array of benefits including Employee Assistance Program, Local Employee Meetups
• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
• Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses
• Bonus eligibility based on company and individual performance
• Equity compensation including equity grants upon hire and Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Equal opportunity employer