Forward Deployed Engineer

Hammerspace

Forward Deployed Engineer at Hammerspace solving complex data challenges for AI and HPC workloads. Embedding in high-stakes environments to deliver technical solutions and business insights.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $200,000 - $240,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDockerGoKubernetesLinuxNFSPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Act as the primary technical authority on-site, becoming an expert in the customer’s domain to identify and resolve real-world friction points before they escalate.
Design and implement data architectures that accelerate AI/ML training pipelines, ensuring low-latency data access across hybrid-cloud environments.
Build custom integrations, automation scripts, and "last-mile" solutions that bridge the gap between Hammerspace’s core product and the client’s bespoke infrastructure.
Use your proximity to the action to identify new business problems, expansion opportunities, and emerging workloads that Hammerspace can solve.
Partner with our Rotational Sustaining Engineering team to translate field-discovered bugs into core product features, ensuring that local fixes become global platform strengths.
Translate complex technical hurdles into clear, actionable insights for both end-users (data scientists/IT admins) and executive leadership.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Deep understanding of GPU orchestration, AI/ML data pipelines, and high-performance file systems (NFS, SMB, S3).
Mastery of high-speed networking (InfiniBand, RoCE, 100GbE+) and the ability to debug complex routing, latency, and throughput issues in a distributed environment.
Proficiency in Python, Go, or C++, with the ability to write production-grade tools and integrations that interface with Hammerspace APIs.
Strong Linux internals expertise, including kernel tuning, storage stack performance, and containerization (Kubernetes/Docker).
Ability to quickly master the Global Data Environment architecture and deploy it across heterogeneous storage and cloud providers.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Hammerspace offers a broad range of health plans for medical, dental, vision, life and disability.
401k plans
Flexible time off.

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Hard Skills & Tools

GPU orchestrationAI/ML data pipelineshigh-performance file systemshigh-speed networkingdebugging complex routingdebugging latency issuesdebugging throughput issuesPythonGoC++

Soft Skills

technical authorityproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationinsight translation