Principal Forward Deployed Engineer for AI & Infra

Socket.dev; California (MO, TN); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 212,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision plans

401(K) with company match

Employee stock purchase program (ESPP)

Job summary

Broadcom is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (Principal) to serve as a technical authority across the Infrastructure Software Division. You will embed with large enterprise accounts during platform modernization, drive reference designs, and influence multi-year roadmaps for core infrastructure and AI platform software.

You will lead technical migrations, design distributed AI runtimes, and provision production-grade patterns across multi-cloud environments while mentoring FDEs and shaping

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering with infra focus.
• Experience with Kubernetes at scale and production-grade design.
• Strong customer/executive engagement and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Bridge engineering leadership with customers and executives.
• Architect, validate production-grade Kubernetes/VMware topologies.
• Design and implement AI inference pipelines and distributed runtimes.
• Lead end-to-end migration strategies for large-scale deployments.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Customer engagement

Architecture design

Go

Python

Java

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

Kubernetes

CRD development

ArgoCD

Flux

GitOps

Job description

Broadcom is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (Principal) to serve as a technical authority across the Infrastructure Software Division. You will embed with large enterprise accounts during platform modernization, drive reference designs, and influence multi-year roadmaps for core infrastructure and AI platform software.

You will lead technical migrations, design distributed AI runtimes, and provision production-grade patterns across multi-cloud environments while mentoring FDEs and shaping