Sr./Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

The posting, as Groq wrote it

About Groq
Inference is the engine that powers AI, and Groq was built from the silicon up to deliver the world's fastest inference at scale. We pioneered the LPU—the first processor designed specifically for AI inference—and are transforming that innovation into a global cloud platform powering production AI workloads.

With the capital, infrastructure, and team to execute, we're uniquely positioned to define the next era of AI infrastructure. The opportunity is massive, and it's still wide open. Now let's go build it!

Mission
As a Sr./Staff Forward Deployed Engineer focused on AI Infrastructure at Groq, you will work at the frontier of large-scale AI systems, taking complex customer infrastructure programs from requirements to working production environments. You’ll help bring some of the newest accelerator and infrastructure technologies into production, spanning next-generation NVIDIA GPU systems alongside Groq’s purpose-built inference platform.

You will operate across GroqCloud, GroqMetal (Groq’s infrastructure platform), GPU and LPX infrastructure, and the networking, storage, orchestration, observability, and workload layers around them. This is an opportunity to work on infrastructure where the playbooks are still being written: bringing up new systems, solving problems that emerge only at scale, and helping customers deploy demanding AI workloads on platforms at the leading edge of the market. You will work directly with customers while partnering closely with Commercial, Field Engineering, Platform and Cloud Engineering, Networking, Data Center Operations, Security, and Support teams.

This is a deeply hands-on individual-contributor role. You will work directly in systems, write code and automation, troubleshoot across layers of the stack, and turn ambiguous customer requirements into deployed and validated solutions. The work you do in the field will also shape what comes next: turning hard-won lessons into reusable tooling, deployment patterns, reference architectures, and improvements to the Groq platform for the customers that follow.

Location: This role will be based in one of our three hiring hubs: the Dallas, San Francisco, or New York City area . The person hired for this role must be based in one of these three areas. You’ll have the flexibility to work remotely while we establish our local Groq office, with the expectation that this role will transition to onsite once the office opens.

Responsibilities & Opportunities in This Role

• Own technical execution across complex customer engagements, from discovery and architecture through PoCs, demos, deployment, cluster bring-up, validation, acceptance, production readiness, and operational handoff.
• Translate incomplete or ambiguous customer requirements into practical architectures, implementation plans, test criteria, runbooks, and concrete engineering actions.
• Work hands-on across Linux, bare-metal infrastructure, Kubernetes and Slurm, networking, storage, observ

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