# AI Forward Deployed Engineer, Lead

About Positron AI Positron AI is building next-generation AI inference accelerators designed from the ground up for low-latency, high-throughput large language model inference. Our first-generation ASIC, Asimov, is a cutting-edge accelerator targeting frontier AI workloads, with additional generations already underway. Role Overview The Accelerator Platform Software (APS) team owns the software closest to the metal: the host-side platform layer, the device-side runtime and firmware, the Linux-based device OS, the simulation and emulation environments we use to build software ahead of silicon, performance and debug tooling, and product security. If it touches the accelerator, it goes through us. We build with AI-native workflows, where agentic coding tools, a shared skills repository, and automation are core to how the team ships. This role sits on the Director's staff and owns making that leverage real across every sub-team. Most companies would staff an entire developer-systems team for this mission. We are hiring one person and giving them the whole thing. You will be the engineer who makes AI-assisted development actually work in a shop where the code talks to registers and a wr

- **Id**: 776100
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/positron-ai-ai-forward-deployed-engineer-lead>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-09T03:38:01Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T09:50:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 66
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6293
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Home office, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Servers & Data Center Hardware, AI Compute & Inference, AI Chips & Accelerators

## Company

- **Id**: 63106
- **Name**: Positron AI
- **Domain**: positron.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/positron-ai>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Rippling

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 21
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.048
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 63
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 325000
- **Max**: 400000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 400000

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 66

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T23:00:32Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 5; Filings 12m: 5

## Liveness

- **Score**: 39
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.89
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 66
- **Expected fill days**: 63
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 400000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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