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R027411Please Note:1. If you are a first time user, please create your candidate login account before you apply for a job. (Click Sign In > Create Account)2. If you already have a Candidate Account, please Sign-In before you apply.## Job Description:We are seeking a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to serve as a technical authority, enterprise developer advocate, 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 to revolutionize how internal and external developer teams build, deploy, and scale AI-native applications on our core infrastructure.As a Principal member of the core Engineering organization, you will operate at the intersection of Developer Experience (DevEx), API Architecture, and LLM/AI Platform Engineering. You will eliminate enterprise developer friction, author developer-facing APIs, SDKs, and reference implementations, and directly influence the multi-year technical roadmap for our AI and cloud-native software suite.

Unlike traditional pre-sales or post-sales roles, the Principal FDE functions as a senior extension of R&D; in the field. Your mission is to establish world-class developer workflows, standardize LLM application delivery patterns, and build a high-bandwidth feedback loop that turns field innovations into platform features.

## Key Responsibilities## Developer Experience (DevEx) & API Leadership* Divisional Field-to-Engineering Authority:



Serve as the primary technical bridge between customer application developers, platform engineering teams, product managers, and C-level executive architects.* API & SDK Architecture: Design, validate, and standardize enterprise-grade REST, gRPC, and GraphQL APIs, custom Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), and software development kits (SDKs) to streamline platform consumption.* Developer Workflows & GitOps: Establish end-to-end continuous delivery pipelines, GitOps patterns (ArgoCD, Flux), and self-service developer portals to accelerate software iteration cycles from months to minutes.* Developer Advocacy & Tooling: Build developer CLI tools, testing harnesses, and automation frameworks to reduce cognitive load for internal application teams adopting our vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platforms.

## AI Engineering & LLM Platform Architecture* LLM Application Infrastructure: Architect production-ready environments for real-time LLM inferencing, Agentic frameworks, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines on high-density GPU clusters.* AI Developer Tooling & APIs: Standardize integration patterns for developer-facing AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, vLLM) and expose clean, enterprise-compliant API gateways for model serving.* Distributed AI Compute & Data Fabrics: Set technical execution patterns for containerizing, orchestrating,



and tuning high-throughput AI runtime engines (Ray, vLLM, SGLang, Spark) alongside vector databases and caching layers.

## Code Contribution & Strategy* Hands-on Production Engineering: Write production Go, Python, and TypeScript code in the field—building platform operators, custom controllers, and AI wrappers—and upstream those contributions directly into core ISG product codebases.* Product Roadmap Influence: Systematically translate developer friction points and field workarounds into concrete architectural requirements for VP/Director-level Product Managers.* Technical Mentorship: Establish best-in-class API design practices, developer documentation standards, and code quality benchmarks across the broader FDE organization.

## Key Qualifications## Technical Leadership & DevEx Stature* 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years driving Developer Experience (DevEx), API design, or AI platform architectures at scale.* Proven track record commanding technical credibility with C-suite leadership (CTOs, Chief AI Officers) while remaining deeply hands-on with staff-level software developers and systems engineers.

## Deep API & Kubernetes Platform Primitives* Authority-level mastery of API Design Principles (RESTful design, gRPC, OpenAPI specifications, API Gateway integration).* Deep understanding of Kubernetes internal mechanics, custom controllers, Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), Operator patterns, and Cluster API (CAPI).* Proficiency in establishing GitOps workflows and infrastructure-as-code automation.

## LLM, Generative AI & Data Ecosystem* Hands-on experience building or supporting LLM/Generative AI application stacks:**F

📌 Principal Forward Deployed Engineer – AI (Winnipeg)
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