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disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while
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builders in the world.

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 contemporary
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

📌 Senior Forward Deployed Engineer I (Bengaluru)
🏢 DigitalOcean
📍 Bengaluru