Forward Deployed Engineer

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Wafer The Forward Deployed Engineer at Wafer works directly with customers to optimize AI inference workloads from benchmarking to production. The role includes deploying, tuning, and maintaining customer models and configurations for latency and throughput targets.

Responsibilities

Run technical evaluations on the customer's own workload: understand the traffic, set up the benchmark and prove the result.
Deploy and tune each customer's model, hardware and serving configuration for their latency and throughput targets.
Own production for your accounts. When latency moves or error rates climb, you find it and fix it, and you are who the customer hears from.
Build the tools, integrations and runbooks that make each new deployment faster than the last.
Work with sales on scoping and with engineering on what to build next, based on what you see in production.
What we look for
You are a strong engineer who has shipped and operated production systems. You can read a trace, open a profiler and find the problem yourself.
Experience with LLM inference or serving, such as vLLM, SGLang or TensorRT-LLM, is a big plus.

Qualification

You work without a specInfinitely ResourcefulUnreasonable StandardsCompany Over SelfFirst Principles Thinker

Required

You are credible in a room full of engineers. You can defend a benchmark methodology and concede the point when they are right.
You work without a spec. The problem arrives half-defined and you come back with a scoped answer rather than a list of questions.
We score every candidate on seven values:
Infinitely Resourceful
Unreasonable Standards
Company Over Self
First Principles Thinker

Preferred

Experience with LLM inference or serving such as vLLM, SGLang, or TensorRT-LLM

Benefits

Dental
Vision
PTO
Parental Leave

Company

Wafer

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