Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at well-funded enterprise AI startup

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Job Title Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Salary Not Disclosed

Company Description Well-funded enterprise AI infrastructure startup

Job Description You will lead the technical delivery of AI reliability and security platforms within complex enterprise Kubernetes environments. As a hands-on individual contributor, you’ll manage the deployment, configuration, and operationalization of critical infrastructure for strategic customers in regulated sectors. This role bridges the gap between sophisticated AI experimentation and secure, production-ready enterprise deployments.

Location New York, USA

Why this role is remarkable

• Directly impact how the world’s most regulated organizations safely adopt and scale generative AI technologies through robust infrastructure.
• Join a fast-growing, Series A startup backed by top-tier VCs, operating at the cutting edge of AI reliability and governance.
• Deeply technical IC role with ownership over the entire deployment lifecycle across diverse cloud and on-prem architectures.

What You Will Do

• Deploy and configure enterprise-grade AI deployment tools using Helm across EKS, AKS, GKE, and OpenShift environments.
• Own technical relationships with strategic enterprise customers, leading them from initial architecture design through to full production readiness.
• Automate and troubleshoot infrastructure using Terraform while ensuring high standards for observability, networking, and system security.

The ideal candidate

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, or hands-on customer-facing engineering for complex software.
• Expert-level knowledge of production Kubernetes, including Helm, ingress, networking, storage, and secrets management.
• Proven track record of deploying and debugging distributed systems within major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or GCP.

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