Principal Forward Deployed Engineer – AI & Developer Platform

FDE Times; Rankin; On-site; CAD 116,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity grant

Equity awards

Medical, dental, vision

Job summary

Broadcom is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to act as a technical authority across the Infrastructure Software Division. You will embed with large enterprise accounts to accelerate AI-native apps on Broadcom's core infrastructure.

You'll bridge DevEx, API architecture, and AI platform engineering; design APIs/SDKs, standardize deployment patterns, and influence multi-year roadmaps while remaining hands-on in field projects.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in DevEx, API design, or AI platform architectures.
• Hands-on with Go, Python, and TypeScript/Node.js for systems work.
• Proven credibility with C-suite leadership while mentoring staff.
• Deep Kubernetes, CRDs, Operators, and multi-cloud Kubernetes experience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/Software Eng; 17+ years total experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical bridge between customer app developers and engineering teams.
• Design, validate, and standardize REST, gRPC, GraphQL APIs, CRDs, and SDKs.
• Establish GitOps pipelines and self-service developer portals.
• Develop tooling for vSphere Kubernetes Service and VMware Cloud Foundation.
• Architect LLM inference environments and RAG pipelines for AI workloads.

Skills

DevEx leadership

API design

AI platform architecture

Kubernetes

Executive credibility

Total experience 17+ years

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Eng

Tools

Go

Python

TypeScript

Node.js

Job description

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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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