Forward Deployed Engineer

Virtue AI • San Francisco, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Forward Deployed Engineers are the technical face of the company. You will embed directly with customers to deploy and integrate Virtue AI's platform within their environments — designing solutions, conducting demos and technical deep dives, and executing proof of concepts. This is a high-ownership role that blends software engineering, customer engagement, and pre-sales support. You will be a trusted technical partner to the most sophisticated AI and Cybersecurity teams in the world, and your field learnings will directly shape our product roadmap.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• Strong experience deploying production systems on major cloud platforms, e.g., AWS and/or GCP.
• Deep hands-on experience with Docker and containerized workloads, Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, or equivalent).
• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions required) and repository management (monorepos, release branches, tagging, rollbacks).
• Strong hands-on experience with deploying enterprise AI or data analytics applications
• Ability to travel up to 25%, as needed to client sites

Nice To Haves

• Strong understanding of GPU behavior (memory limits, batching, fragmentation, utilization) and experience with GPU-level optimization
• Startup experience: you move fast, take ownership, and fix things properly.
• Understanding of core security concepts (e.g., access controls, identity management, network integration, red-teaming, guardrails)

Responsibilities

• Lead sales discussions on solution architecture, including explaining the Virtue AI platform and its technical capabilities and differentiators
• Deliver technical deep-dives, demos, and customer trainings
• Help customers deploy the Virtue AI platform in their cloud or on-premises environments
• Collaborate with customer stakeholders to execute successful proof of concepts, including AI engineering & Cybersecurity teams and executives
• Identify technical risks, devise mitigation strategies, and communicate deal status to internal executives
• Own IaC (Terraform / Pulumi) for repeatable, auditable customer deployments.
• Package our services into secure, customer-ready deployment units (Docker, Helm, Marketplace images).
• Design, build, and maintain product CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Design production-grade system observability (Metrics, logs, alerts, dashboards) using tools like Datadog, Grafana, and Prometheus.
• Implement secure networking (VPCs, IAM, service accounts, private endpoints, firewalling).
• Collaborate with product developers to align infrastructure and inference behavior with product requirements.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary compensation + equity commensurate with skills and experience.
• Impact at scale – Help define the category of AI security and partner with Fortune 500 enterprises on their most strategic AI initiatives.
• Work on the frontier – Engage with bleeding-edge AI/ML and deploy AI security solutions for use cases that don't yet exist anywhere else.
• Collaborative culture – Join a team of builders, problem-solvers, and innovators who are mission-driven and collaborative.
• Opportunity for growth – Shape not only our customer engagements, but also the processes and culture of an early lean team with plans for scale.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior