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Forward Deployed Engineer (Principal)

AI summary of the role

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer serving as a senior R&D extension in the field across Broadcom’s Infrastructure Software Division.

What you’ll do

  • Architect and validate VKS and VCF platforms for mission-critical enterprise deployments
  • Design production LLM inferencing, RAG, and distributed AI systems on GPU clusters
  • Lead migrations from bare metal, legacy, and fragmented AI environments to Kubernetes
  • Write field-proven operators and integrations and upstream them into core engineering codebases

What you’ll bring

  • 17+ years of related experience, including 10+ years in software engineering and 5+ years with large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, AI platforms, or Kubernetes
  • Expertise in Kubernetes internals, CRDs, Operators, CAPI, and GitOps with ArgoCD or Flux
  • Experience with high-throughput AI inference, NVIDIA GPU virtualization, and model serving frameworks
  • Track record running stateful distributed workloads and executing legacy-to-cloud-native migrations

Technologies

Kubernetes · vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) · VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) · Kubernetes Operators · Cluster API (CAPI) · ArgoCD · NVIDIA vGPU · vLLM · Apache Kafka · Milvus

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