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Senior Director, Forward Deployed Engineer — Operational AI

Aerospike · Remote (United States) · Remote

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About Aerospike

Aerospike is the real-time database for mission-critical use cases and workloads, including machine learning, generative, and agentic AI. Backed by NEA.

About the role

As AI moves from analysis into action, enterprises need more than intelligent models. They need an operational fabric that connects agents to current reality—with authoritative state, relevant context, and the controls to act safely. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Aerospike database, vector search, graph, or cloud capabilities
  • Multi-agent coordination, durable execution, checkpointing, or human-in-the-loop workflows
  • Cloud and hybrid deployments, streaming architectures, containers, and infrastructure automation
More about this role

As AI moves from analysis into action, enterprises need more than intelligent models. They need an operational fabric that connects agents to current reality—with authoritative state, relevant context, and the controls to act safely.

As a Senior Director, Forward Deployed Engineer at Aerospike, you will work directly with Global 2000 engineering teams to build that fabric. You will own the technical solution from problem discovery and architecture through implementation, production validation, and iteration—combining strong software engineering with a deep understanding of customer operations.

Reporting to the CTO/CPO, you will connect customer challenges with product and engineering development. Your work must deliver production outcomes for customers and create reusable capabilities, reference architectures, and evidence that shape Aerospike’s Operational AI direction.

  • Authoritative State: Engineer the real-time foundation for business, agent, session, and workflow state. Support concurrent reads and writes against continuously changing reality, with explicit requirements for freshness, consistency, and recovery.
  • Relevant Context: Assemble timely, permission-aware context...

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