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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) for AI and GenAI Inference Optimization

Unlock employer Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Direct to Company 1 hour ago · 20 Oct 2026

Financial

  • Estimate: $60k - $120k/yr*
  • Zero income tax location

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Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Member of Technical Staff to join our Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team. In this customer-facing role, you will work directly with strategic partners and customers to enable, optimize, and deploy state-of-the-art GenAI inference workloads on the company data center CPUs and GPUs (Instinct™ family). You will bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI models and the company hardware, driving competitive performance across the full inference stack.

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Responsibilities

  • Partner directly with customers to enable and optimize large language models (LLMs) and multimodal models on the company Instinct GPUs, meeting committed performance and accuracy targets.
  • Optimize GenAI inference pipelines on vLLM and SGLang, including PD disaggregation, expert parallelism (EP/wide-EP), tensor/data parallelism, speculative decoding, and KV cache management.
  • Develop and tune low-level GPU kernels (Triton, HIP, composable kernels) for attention, MoE, GEMM, quantization, and normalization operations.
  • Profile end-to-end workloads, identify bottlenecks across GPU/CPU boundaries, and deliver measurable throughput and latency improvements versus competitive targets.
  • Enable advanced data types and techniques (FP8, MXFP4, sparse attention) with a focus on both performance and numerical accuracy.
  • Debug complex runtime, stability, and accuracy issues in production environments; partner with core engineering teams to identify root causes and contribute fixes.
  • Contribute optimizations back to open-source frameworks (vLLM, SGLang, ATOM, AITER) and internal libraries; document best practices and deliver production-ready artifacts to customers.
  • Leverage AI-assisted coding tools and agentic workflows to accelerate development, debugging, optimization, and code review across the inference stack.

What You'll Bring

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, along with 8+ years of relevant experience.
  • Deep expertise in GPU architecture and performance optimization, including hands-on experience with the company ROCm (or CUDA) and GPU kernel development.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and C++, with experience developing and optimizing kernels using Triton, HIP, or CUDA.
  • Experience with AI-assisted coding and agentic development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or equivalent) to enhance productivity in kernel development, large-scale codebase navigation, debugging, and framework integration.
  • Experience working with LLM inference frameworks (vLLM, SGLang, or equivalent) and serving optimization techniques.
  • Solid understanding of transformer and MoE architectures, quantization, and distributed inference strategies (TP, DP, EP, and related parallelism techniques).
  • Proficiency with profiling and debugging tools (e.g., rocProfiler, ROCdebug-agent).

Nice to Have

  • Experience optimizing frontier models (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, MiniMax, GLM, etc.) in production environments.
  • Track record of contributing to open-source AI inference frameworks.
  • Experience integrating AI-driven automation into engineering workflows and developer tooling.
  • Strong customer-facing communication skills and the ability to manage technical deliverables against committed timelines.

The company is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage candidates to apply even if their experience does not align perfectly with every qualification listed. If you are excited about this role and believe you can make an impact, we would welcome your application.

Benefits
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The company does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. The company and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

The company may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. The company’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available upon request.

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