Principal Forward Deployed Engineer – AI & Developer Platform

Broadcom Inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 116,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Equity grants

Medical, dental and vision plans

RRSP matching

ESPP

Job summary

Broadcom Inc. is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to act as a technical authority and field-to-engineering leader across ISG, embedding with enterprise accounts to accelerate AI-native app delivery on Broadcom's core infrastructure.

You will design APIs/SDKs, drive DevEx improvements, and architect LLM platform capabilities using Kubernetes, GitOps, and multi-cloud runtimes, mentoring teams and influencing roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years driving DevEx, API design, or AI platform architectures at scale.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, and TypeScript/Node.js.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals, CRDs, controllers, and Operator patterns.
• Experience establishing GitOps workflows and IaC automation.
• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical bridge between customer developers, platform engineering, product managers, and executives.
• Design, validate, and standardize REST, gRPC, and GraphQL APIs, CRDs, and SDKs for enterprise consumption.
• Establish end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, GitOps patterns, and self-service developer portals.
• Architect production-grade LLM inference environments, AI toolchains, and data pipelines.
• Mentor developers and influence product roadmaps and API design standards.

Skills

Go

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

CRDs/Operators

OpenAPI

GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux)

Job description

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer – AI & Developer Platform### Principal Forward Deployed Engineer – AI & Developer PlatformApply: CAN-Ontario Remote Location: Full time: Posted Yesterday: R027411**Please Note:****1. If you are a first time user, please create your candidate login account before you apply for a job. (Click Sign In > Create Account)****2. If you already have a Candidate Account, please Sign-In before you apply.**## **Job Description:**We are seeking a **Principal Forward Deployed Engineer** to serve as a technical authority, enterprise developer advocate, and field-to-engineering leader across the Infrastructure Software Division (ISG). In this high-impact role, you will embed with our largest, most complex enterprise accounts to revolutionize how internal and external developer teams build, deploy, and scale AI-native applications on our core infrastructure.As a Principal member of the core Engineering organization, you will operate at the intersection of **Developer Experience (DevEx)**, **API Architecture**, and **LLM/AI Platform Engineering**. You will eliminate enterprise developer friction, author developer-facing APIs, SDKs, and reference implementations, and directly influence the multi-year technical roadmap for our AI and cloud-native software suite. Unlike traditional pre-sales or post-sales roles, the Principal FDE functions as a senior extension of R&D in the field. Your mission is to establish world-class developer workflows, standardize LLM application delivery patterns, and build a high-bandwidth feedback loop that turns field innovations into platform features. ## Key Responsibilities## Developer Experience (DevEx) & API Leadership* **Divisional Field-to-Engineering Authority:** Serve as the primary technical bridge between customer application developers, platform engineering teams, product managers, and C-level executive architects.* **API & SDK Architecture:** Design, validate, and standardize enterprise-grade REST, gRPC, and GraphQL APIs, custom Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), and software development kits (SDKs) to streamline platform consumption.* **Developer Workflows & GitOps:** Establish end-to-end continuous delivery pipelines, GitOps patterns (ArgoCD, Flux), and self-service developer portals to accelerate software iteration cycles from months to minutes.* **Developer Advocacy & Tooling:** Build developer CLI tools, testing harnesses, and automation frameworks to reduce cognitive load for internal application teams adopting our vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platforms. ## AI Engineering & LLM Platform Architecture* **LLM Application Infrastructure:** Architect production-ready environments for real-time LLM inferencing, Agentic frameworks, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines on high-density GPU clusters.* **AI Developer Tooling & APIs:** Standardize integration patterns for developer-facing AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, vLLM) and expose clean, enterprise-compliant API gateways for model serving.* **Distributed AI Compute & Data Fabrics:** Set technical execution patterns for containerizing, orchestrating, and tuning high-throughput AI runtime engines (Ray, vLLM, SGLang, Spark) alongside vector databases and caching layers. ## Code Contribution & Strategy* **Hands-on Production Engineering:** Write production Go, Python, and TypeScript code in the field—building platform operators, custom controllers, and AI wrappers—and upstream those contributions directly into core ISG product codebases.* **Product Roadmap Influence:** Systematically translate developer friction points and field workarounds into concrete architectural requirements for VP/Director-level Product Managers.* **Technical Mentorship:** Establish best-in-class API design practices, developer documentation standards, and code quality benchmarks across the broader FDE organization. ## Key Qualifications## Technical Leadership & DevEx Stature* **10+ years of software engineering experience**, with **5+ years driving Developer Experience (DevEx), API design, or AI platform architectures** at scale.* Proven track record commanding technical credibility with C-suite leadership (CTOs, Chief AI Officers) while remaining deeply hands-on with staff-level software developers and systems engineers. ## Deep API & Kubernetes Platform Primitives* Authority-level mastery of **API Design Principles** (RESTful design, gRPC, OpenAPI specifications, API Gateway integration).* Deep understanding of **Kubernetes internal mechanics**, custom controllers, Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), Operator patterns, and Cluster API (CAPI).* Proficiency in establishing **GitOps workflows** and infrastructure-as-code automation. ## LLM, Generative AI & Data Ecosystem* Hands-on experience building or supporting **LLM/Generative AI application stacks**:**Frameworks & Orchestration:** LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, Semantic Kernel, Ray, vLLM, SGLang, Triton Inference Server.**Vector Databases & Search:** Milvus, Qdrant, Pinecone, pgvector, Weaviate.**Streaming & Caching:** Apache Kafka, Redis, Pulsar, Apache Spark, Flink.* Experience integrating virtualized GPU workloads (NVIDIA vGPU, MIG, GPUDirect RDMA) into developer-accessible API primitives.## ## Systems & Software Engineering* Advanced proficiency in **Go, Python, and TypeScript/Node.js** for systems-level development, custom controller authorship, API microservices, and AI workflow integration.* Comprehensive fluency across multi-cloud enterprise Kubernetes distributions (EKS, GKE, AKS, OpenShift, Rancher) and standard application network/storage abstractions. ## Experience & Education* **Bachelor's degree** in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field preferred (relevant years of equivalent experience considered in lieu of a degree).* **17+ years of total professional experience** in technical software roles required. **Compensation and Benefits** The annual base salary range for this position is CAD 115,600.00 To CAD 185,000.00 As a valued member of our team, you'll be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus and the opportunity to receive not only a competitive new hire equity grant, but also annual equity awards, connecting your success directly to the company's growth. All subject to relevant plan documents and award agreements. Broadcom offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package: Medical, dental and vision plans, RRSP participation including company matching, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company-paid holidays; and paid sick leave and vacation time. The company follows all applicable laws for leaves of absence. **Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.** **If you are located outside USA, please be sure to fill out a home address as this will be used for future correspondence.**