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If you are a first time user, please create your candidate login account before you apply for a job. (Click Sign In > Create Account)\n2. If you already have a Candidate Account, please Sign-In before you apply.\nJob Description:\nPosition Description\nWe are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (Principal) to serve as an elite technical authority, enterprise strategist, and field to engineering leader across the Infrastructure Software Division (ISG). In this high impact role, you will embed with our largest, most complex enterprise accounts during critical platform modernizations, bare metal re platforming, large scale stateful workload migrations, and mission critical AI inferencing deployments.\n As a Principal member of the core Engineering organization, you will operate at the intersection of enterprise architecture, hands on production code, and long term product strategy. 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Partner with VP/Director level Product Managers to prioritize features that shorten software iteration cycles from months to days across the global product suite.\n\nComplex Stateful & AI Data Fabric: Set technical patterns for containerizing, tuning, and orchestrating heavy distributed systems, including streaming platforms (Kafka, Pulsar), vector databases (Milvus, Qdrant), in memory grids (Coherence, Redis), and advanced AI data/compute engines (Ray, vLLM, Spark, Flink).\n\nMulti Cloud & Competitive Interoperability: Define cross platform integration strategies for clients operating mixed environments across competing distributions (Red Hat OpenShift, EKS, GKE, AKS, Rancher).\n\nTechnical Mentorship & Practice Building: Establish best in class deployment standards, GitOps frameworks, and CAPI/Operator patterns across the broader FDE organization; mentor Senior and Staff FDEs to elevate team wide execution capabilities.\n\nKey Qualifications\nPrincipal Level Engineering Stature: 10+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years driving high consequence infrastructure, distributed systems, AI platforms, or Kubernetes architectures at scale. Demonstrated alignment with core R&D/Product Engineering organizations.\n\nStrategic Customer Authority: Proven ability to command technical credibility with C suite stakeholders (CTOs, VP of Infra, Chief AI Officers) while remaining deeply hands on in production code with staff level customer engineers.\n\nDeep Kubernetes & Cloud Native Primitives: Authority level mastery of Kubernetes internal mechanics, Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), Kubernetes Operators, Cluster API (CAPI), and GitOps architecture (ArgoCD, Flux).\n\nAI & GPU Infrastructure Fluency: Extensive experience architecting high throughput AI inferencing pipelines, virtualized GPU environments (NVIDIA vGPU, MIG, GPUDirect RDMA), model serving frameworks (vLLM, TGI, Triton), and distributed inference topologies.\n\nDistributed Stateful Systems Expertise: Proven track record architecting and running high throughput, low latency stateful workloads on Kubernetes:\n AI Serving & Distributed Compute: Ray, vLLM, SGLang, LeaderWorkerSets (LWS), vLLM-Orchestrator.\n\nVector & NoSQL Databases: Milvus, Qdrant, Pinecone, Apache Cassandra, ScyllaDB.\n\nIn Memory & Caching: Oracle Coherence, Hazelcast, Redis, Apache Ignite.\n\nMessaging & Streaming: Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar.\n\nData & Analytics Engines: Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Dask, Trino/Presto.\n\nLegacy to Cloud Native Migration Track Record: Deep experience untangling complex enterprise monoliths, mainframe/bare metal environments, and siloed AI hardware deployments to construct seamless zero downtime migration pathways.\n\nSystems & Platform Code Proficiency: Hands on experience developing in Go, Python, or Java for systems level infrastructure, Kubernetes controllers, custom AI wrappers, or automation frameworks.\n\nCross Distribution Architecture: Comprehensive technical fluency across competing enterprise distributions (OpenShift, EKS, GKE, AKS, Rancher RKE/RKS) and their underlying networking (CSI/CNI, RDMA, InfiniBand, RoCEv2) and storage abstractions.\n\nExperience/Education:\nBachelor's degree preferred. Relevant year's experience in lieu of a degree may be considered.\n17+ years related experience required\nCompensation and Benefits\nThe annual base salary range for this position is USD 132,200.00 To USD 211,500.00\nAs a valued member of our team, you'll be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus and the opportunity to receive not only a competitive new hire equity grant, but also annual equity awards, connecting your success directly to the company's growth. All subject to relevant plan documents and award agreements.\nBroadcom offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401(K) participation including company matching, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company paid holidays, paid sick leave and vacation time. The company follows all applicable laws for Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.\nBroadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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