Staff Forward Deployed Engineer - Remote
$100,000 - $500,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 6 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves building with AI computers, creating continuity between customers, engineering, and AI inference service products. It is an engineering role focused on contributing production code and operating deployments.
What you'll do
- Contribute production code and operate deployments.
- Explain trade-offs to customer leadership and core engineering teams.
- Debug across the full inference stack, from requests to serving layer and kernel dispatch.
- Provide feedback via pull requests, reproducible code, benchmarks, and telemetry data.
What you'll need
- Strong software engineering skills with 5+ years of relevant technical experience.
- Experience turning ambiguous customer requirements into verifiable acceptance criteria.
- Kubernetes and Helm experience at multi-node, HPC, or AI cluster scale.
- Experience with observability and infrastructure automation (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
- Experience with LLM inference serving engines and technologies (e.g., vLLM, SGLang, Mooncake, NIM, Dynamo, LMCache).
Skills: AI inference service, Kubernetes, HPC, LLM inference serving, accelerator compute
This role has been open 73 days — well above the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
962
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Tenstorrent | All employers we track in this specialty (962 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 962 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 27 | 6118 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 21 d | 51 d (−30 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: AI inference service, Kubernetes, HPC, LLM inference serving, accelerator compute
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 274 open roles · median 47 d
- Qualcomm · 62 open roles · median 53 d
- AMD · 54 open roles · median 19 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 93 d
- Intel Corporation · 43 open roles · median 12 d
- Cerebras · 36 open roles · median 83 d
How we counted: 962 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.