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Position Overview
We are looking for a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer I (FDE) who is passionate about operationalizing and collaborating closely with strategic AI enterprises and high-growth startups to architect, implement, and fine-tune production infrastructure across DigitalOcean’s AI-Native Cloud.
As an AI Infrastructure Engineer within the Forward Deployed Engineering team, you sit at the intersection of deep systems engineering and high-impact customer architecture.
You won't just build infrastructure in a vacuum; you will embed directly with customer engineering teams to solve complex infrastructure bottlenecks, optimize heterogeneous GPU cluster performance, and engineer mission-critical inference and training platforms.
If you thrive on squeezing maximum compute and memory throughput out of modern GPU clusters—whether optimizing NVIDIA (H100 /H200/B200/B300) or leveraging high-capacity AMD Instinct (MI300X/MI325X) hardware—and debugging low-level distributed stacks from drivers to orchestration, this is your playground.
Your mission is to accelerate production adoption of AI-native systems while helping shape the future of DigitalOcean’s AI-Native Cloud for the inference and agentic era.
What You’ll Do
Embed & Execute: Act as the primary technical authority on heterogeneous AI infrastructure for high-value DigitalOcean customers, co-engineering custom GPU infrastructure solutions for their production workloads.Optimize Multi-Vendor AI Pipelines: Architect and fine-tu