Forward Deployment Engineer
San Jose, CAFull-time$208–300K/yrSeen 5 days agoStill listed today
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Etched, Inc. seeks a Forward Deployment Engineer to lead deployment of accelerator-based systems in large-scale datacenters. The role includes installation, bring-up, validation, customer acceptance, and troubleshooting across hardware, firmware, Linux, drivers, and networking. The engineer will analyze field failures, improve deployment tooling and reliability, coordinate updates and hotfixes, and collaborate with engineering teams. The position requires up to 30% domestic and international travel.
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Etched, Inc. seeks a Forward Deployment Engineer in San Jose, CA. Job Duties: Lead end-to-end deployment of accelerator-based systems in large-scale datacenter environments, including installation, bring-up, validation, and customer acceptance; Diagnose and resolve complex system-level issues across hardware, firmware, Linux OS, drivers, and high-speed networking stacks, including TCP/IP, RDMA, and 100GbE/400GbE infrastructure; Perform root-cause analysis of field failures, reproduce issues in partnership with internal engineering teams, and drive corrective actions, patches, or design improvements; Develop and maintain deployment tooling, diagnostics, telemetry, dashboards, and structured runbooks to improve system reliability, observability, and repeatability at scale; and Coordinate firmware updates, configuration changes, and hotfix rollouts with minimal downtime, while collaborating cross-functionally with hardware, software, deployment, RMA, and sustaining engineering teams. Position requires up to 30% domestic and international travel.
Position requires a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, Network Engineering, and other closely related degrees, and 3 years of experience in the job offered or related occupations. Must have 3 years of experience in the following skills: Proficiency in schematic review, PCB layout validation, and debugging of high-speed digital interfaces, including PCIe, SerDes, and memory subsystems; Working with Linux-based systems for bring-up, validation, and debugging, and documenting findings through validation reports and technical documentation; Programming experience in C/C++ and Python for hardware validation, and debugging workflows; and Strong knowledge of power architecture design and troubleshooting, and power distribution networks. Must have 1.25 years of experience with system bring-up, validation, and debug of datacenter-class and HPC server platforms (e.g, NVIDIA HGX / GB systems).
Salary Range: $208,437.00 - $300,000.00 / year. To apply online at https://www.etched.com/join with Ref#QC0926
How this job compares
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- Pay
- This posting$208–300K/yr
- California median$142–208K/yr1,695 salary ranges
- US median$116–186K/yr8,078 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $254K, is 46% above the California median midpoint ($174K) — in the top quarter of Systems Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,994 open Systems Engineer jobs in California and 10,995 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (9,191 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 4,697 of the 10,995 open Systems Engineer jobs (43%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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