Groq
Sr./Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, USA · Staff+
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About the role
- You'll have the flexibility to work remotely while we establish our local Groq office, with the expectation that this role will transition to onsite once the office opens.
Responsibilities
- Every teammate is handpicked with intention because who we build with matters.
- Builders Wanted: You're not just riding the rocket ship, you're building it.
Nice to have
- Experience at a neocloud, hyperscaler, AI infrastructure provider, HPC environment, frontier AI company, or other organization operating large-scale accelerator infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with NVIDIA GPU infrastructure and technologies such as CUDA, NCCL, NVLink/NVSwitch, DCGM, GPU Operator, InfiniBand, RoCE, Kubernetes, or Slurm.
- Familiarity with high-performance storage systems such as VAST, Weka, Lustre, Ceph, or similar technologies and the data-access patterns of distributed AI workloads.
- Experience with infrastructure automation and lifecycle tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, BMC/Redfish, PXE/iPXE, or related systems.
- Prior solutions engineering, sales engineering, solutions architecture, or technical pre-sales experience in cloud, networking, security, AI infrastructure, or data center systems.
- Customer-facing security experience including access-control architecture, network isolation, enterprise security reviews, and SOC 2 / ISO 27001-style diligence or questionnaires.
- Experience defining or executing technical PoCs, reference architectures, cluster acceptance tests, performance benchmarks, migration plans, or production-readiness criteria.
- You'll help bring some of the newest accelerator and infrastructure technologies into production, spanning next-generation NVIDIA GPU systems alongside Groq's purpose-built inference platform.
Compensation
- $270k-$402k
Benefits
- Compensation Groq is committed to providing competitive compensation through our Total Cash philosophy, which incorporates potential bonus value directly into base pay.
- Beyond cash compensation, Groq also offers a Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program and a robust suite of employee benefits. #LI-MS
Company info
- The work you do in the field will also shape what comes next: turning hard-won lessons into reusable tooling, deployment patterns, reference architectures, and improvements to the Groq platform for the customers that follow.
- Our mission fuels everything we do.
Visa & Work Authorization
- export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR)
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