Forward Deployed Engineer (Principal)

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: Position Description We are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (Principal) to serve as an elite technical authority, enterprise strategist, 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 during critical platform modernizations, bare metal re platforming, large scale stateful workload migrations, and mission critical AI inferencing deployments. As a Principal member of the core Engineering organization, you will operate at the intersection of enterprise architecture, hands on production code, and long term product strategy. You will tackle systemic architecture blockers in high stakes environments, author reference implementations, and directly influence the multi year technical roadmap of our core infrastructure and AI platform software. Unlike traditional pre sales, professional services, or post sales support roles, the Principal FDE functions as a senior extension of R&D in the field. Your mission is to eliminate enterprise adoption friction at scale, codify repeatable deployment patterns for modern wo [... source excerpt omitted ...] ties Divisional Field to Engineering Leadership: Act as the primary technical authority bridging core engineering, product management executive leadership, and C level enterprise customer architects. Strategic Architecture & Reference Design: Architect, scale, and validate production grade vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) topologies for high consequence, mission critical, and highly regulated deployments. Enterprise AI & Distributed Inferencing Acceleration: Design and deploy production systems for real time LLM inferencing, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, and distributed AI runtime frameworks across high density GPU clusters. [... source excerpt omitted ...] agmented AI workloads to unified cloud native Kubernetes targets. Mission Critical Problem Solving & Code Contribution: Directly engineer high value prototype integrations, write production operators/CRDs in the field to unblock strategic accounts, and upstream those contributions directly into core ISG codebases. Product Strategy & Roadmap Influence: Systematically synthesize complex customer pain points, field workarounds, and architectural patterns into concrete product requirements. Partner with VP/Director level Product Managers to prioritize features that shorten software iteration cycles from months to days across the global product suite. Complex Stateful & AI Data Fabri