Forward Deployed Engineer (Staff)

Overview

Forward Deployed Engineer (Staff) embedded with enterprise client teams to modernize platforms and migrate large, stateful workloads to Kubernetes and vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS), including enterprise AI infrastructure.

What you'll do

• Work as an embedded engineering liaison across the Infrastructure Software Division to eliminate deployment friction.
• Identify migration blockers and build/test field fixes to shorten iteration cycles.
• Stay embedded from pre-migration discovery through go-live and operational stabilization.
• Write production code in the field, build manifests, and troubleshoot live networking/storage/GPU failures.
• Translate field learnings into core engineering requirements and prioritized platform features.
• Architect and maintain production-grade VKS clusters across VMware Cloud Foundation and hybrid cloud.
• Lead migrations of bare metal/legacy environments and data stacks to VKS or cloud-native Kubernetes.

What you'll need

• 12+ years of related experience required.
• Hands-on experience with GPU-accelerated Kubernetes nodes and model serving runtimes.
• Experience containerizing and operating distributed caching and stateful workloads.
• Deep knowledge of deploying, tuning, and scaling containerized data services and AI engines.
• Infrastructure as Code and GitOps skills including Terraform, Helm, GitOps tools like ArgoCD or Flux.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred (or relevant experience in lieu of a degree).

Details

• Location: USA-TN-Remote.
• Work is remote (as indicated by the ATS location line).