Senior Forward Deployed Engineer I (AI Infra)
Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and 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.