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We are backed by top-tier VC firms and notable angel investors.\nThe company is led by experienced builders and operators who have founded companies, taken them to scale, and exited successfully. We work with a strong sense of unity and shared responsibility, and we expect trust, integrity, and respect in how we collaborate and make decisions. We hold ourselves accountable to one another and to the quality of the work we deliver.\nHeadquartered in Silicon Valley, we operate across a mix of remote and on-site locations in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. We aim to create an environment where people are treated fairly, supported in their growth, and are empowered to do meaningful work alongside others who take the craft seriously.\nSome Recent Press:\nhttps://www.reuters.com/business/delos-data-chip-startup-founded-by-intel-veterans-raises-100-million-ai-networks-2026-09-15/\nWe are looking for:\nWe are looking for a talented Forward Deployed Engineer to be embedded with one of our strategic customers running our software in production. In this role, you will work hands-on inside the customer's AI data center environment, solving hard deployment and operational problems and turning what you learn into new product features alongside our engineering team. While most of your time will go to this customer, you will also bring your field experience to future customer pursuits, contributing hands-on to RFPs, technical evaluations, and new deployments. We are looking for a \"builder\" who has built and run AI infrastructure at scale, ideally at a neocloud or frontier AI lab, and who thrives on solving real problems in production.\nKey Responsibilities\nServe as the dedicated technical owner for a strategic customer's production deployment of our software.\n\nWork hands-on in the customer's AI data center environment, including GPU/XPU clusters, high-speed fabrics, schedulers, and orchestration layers.\n\nLead integration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and root-cause analysis for production issues.\n\nGuide the customer through software upgrades, cluster expansion, and new feature rollouts.\n\nBuild runbooks, integration guides, and automation tailored to the customer's environment.\n\nBuild deep working relationships with the customer's infrastructure, SRE, and platform engineering teams.\n\nTurn customer problems into clear technical requirements and work with our engineering team to design and deliver new features.\n\nWrite and test code (Python, Bash, APIs) to prototype fixes, integrations, and tooling in the field.\n\nFeed structured insights on bugs, feature gaps, and competitive needs back into product and engineering, and align customer milestones with our product release cycles.\n\nContribute hands-on technical work to RFPs, RFIs, technical evaluations, and proof-of-concept deployments for new customers.\n\nHelp build reference architectures, demo environments, and technical collateral, and represent the company at customer briefings, technical workshops, and industry events as needed.\n\nRequired Skills and Qualifications\n5+ years in a hands-on infrastructure engineering role (forward deployed engineer, SRE, platform engineer, solutions architect, or similar) with direct customer or internal-customer exposure.\n\nProven AI data center experience: deploying and operating GPU/XPU clusters with high-speed interconnects (InfiniBand/RoCE/Ethernet/NVLink), job scheduling, and training/inference workloads.\n\nStrong software problem-solving skills, including debugging complex distributed systems and writing production-quality scripts and tools in Python and Bash.\n\nHands-on experience with AI infrastructure software such as Kubernetes, Slurm, Tinkerbell, Canonical MaaS, observability stacks, or infrastructure management platforms.\n\nDeep proficiency with Linux, containers, and APIs.\n\nTrack record of working with engineering teams to define and ship features based on field needs.\n\nClear communicator, comfortable whiteboarding with SREs and briefing senior infrastructure leaders.\n\nWillingness to work on-site with the customer and travel as needed.\n\nDesired Skills\nExperience as a forward deployed or embedded engineer dedicated to a single large customer.\n\nExperience taking early-stage or pre-launch products into hyperscale, neocloud, or AI lab environments.\n\nFamiliarity with inference serving and performance optimization (e.g., KV-cache behavior, disaggregated serving, GPU utilization analysis).\n\nBackground with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and data pipelines for infrastructure analytics.\n\nPrior experience at an AI infrastructure software vendor, GPU cloud provider, networking vendor, or hyperscaler.\n\nEducation\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nLocation\nThis role is on-site at customer’s office based in Cambridge, UK.\nCompensation\nTarget base salary for this role is £115k-£135k per year + equity. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, experience, and location.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer. We value a range of perspectives and experiences and make employment decisions based on merit and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of legally protected characteristics.\nAgency Note:\nWe do not accept resumes from agencies or search firms. Please do not forward candidate profiles through our careers page, email, LinkedIn messages, or directly to company employees. 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