Senior Forward Deployed Engineer I (AI Infra)

DigitalOcean's Forward Deployed Engineering team is hiring a Senior FDE (AI Infrastructure) to embed with strategic AI enterprises and high-growth startups and architect, implement and fine-tune production GPU infrastructure on DigitalOcean's AI-Native Cloud. Requires overlap with North American hours until at least noon ET and up to 30% travel.

What you'll do

• Act as primary technical authority on heterogeneous AI infrastructure (NVIDIA H100/H200/B200/B300, AMD MI300X/MI325X) for high-value customers.
• Architect and tune low-latency LLM serving with vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, SGLang or TGI (quantization, KV caching, speculative decoding).
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters (DOKS/bare metal) with Ray, Slurm and KubeFlow; build Terraform/Ansible/Helm blueprints.
• Debug across drivers (CUDA/ROCm), container runtimes, NCCL/RCCL, InfiniBand/RoCE and distributed storage; turn customer challenges into platform features.

What you bring

• Linux systems engineering, Kubernetes and IaC (Terraform, Helm).
• Hands-on NVIDIA or AMD GPU stack and modern LLM serving frameworks.
• High-performance networking and storage (RDMA, InfiniBand, Ceph, Lustre, NVMe-oF); strong Python and Go.
• Preferred: 6+ years in forward deployed engineering, AI infrastructure or technical consulting for production AI systems.