Senior Forward Deployed Engineer II (AI/ML)

📋 Description

• Partner with strategic AI-native enterprises and startups to architect, deploy, optimize, and scale
• Support complex migrations, production-ready PoCs, deployment acceleration, and long-term workload
• 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
• Surface real-world operational insights, architectural gaps, and scaling bottlenecks directly to
• Build scalable deployment assets including benchmarking systems, automation tooling, AI starter

🎯 Requirements

• AI-Native Systems & Architecture Expertise: Experience designing and operationalizing
• Distributed Systems & Infrastructure Mastery: Deep expertise with NVIDIA and AMD GPU platforms
• Runtime & Orchestration Systems: Experience with AI orchestration and agent frameworks such as
• Software Engineering & Automation: Strong production coding skills in Python or Go with
• Performance & Operational Intelligence: Proven ability to benchmark and optimize AI
• Consultative & Cross-Functional Execution: Ability to establish technical credibility with

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive array of benefits to support well-being
• Employee Assistance Program
• Local Employee Meetups
• Flexible time off policy
• Career development resources including LinkedIn Learning access
• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education