Ingram Micro Inc.
Forward Deployed Engineer, Microsoft AI
Irvine, CA, United States of America · Senior
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$802 more — $134,202 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $134,202 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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Green-card follow-through: 62%
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About the role
- Working within the reference architectures, engineering standards, and reusable components set by the practice, the role ships production software rather than proofs of concept and works end to end from discovery through deployment and handoff.
- Apply security, data-boundary, and performance standards to every solution, including managed agent identity and guardrails
- Deploy the same solution across customers through standard pipelines, and publish and govern agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams, and Agent 365
Responsibilities
- Build agents on the Microsoft frontier stack and select appropriate models from the Microsoft Foundry model catalog for each workload
- Co-deliver with system integrator partners and support them until they can deliver independently
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Customer-facing delivery experience, with a record of shipping production software
- Experience working with global or regional teams
- travel to customer sites as required
Compensation
- The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,400.00 - $226,800.00 per year.
Company info
- Work directly with customers and partners to understand their business priorities, use cases, and gaps, and translate them into solution designs
- Contribute reusable agents, workflows, and components to the practice library, built once and reused across customers
- Its Forward-Deployed Engineering practice works embedded with customers to turn priority AI use cases into production solutions, then packages what works so partners can deliver it across markets.
- Engineer production agents with customers using the practice's shared templates, components, and tooling, following standard build patterns so every solution is built the same way
This listing is sourced directly from Ingram Micro Inc.'s careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.