# Forward Deployed Engineer: AI + HPC at Cedana

- Company: Cedana (YC S23)
- What the company does: Fast, reliable, reproducible AI with GPU live migration. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://cedana.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: US / Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $140K to $180K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cedana/jobs/d1vYocG-forward-deployed-engineer-ai-hpc
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cedana-forward-deployed-engineer-ai-hpc/

## About the role

Engineer solutions at client sites: Lead customer integrations. Install, configure, and deploy Cedana into SLURM, Kubernetes, and Dynamo environments. Drive product innovation from the field: Identify technical gaps while embedded with clients, then provide product feedback for new capabilities that become core product features.

## What they're looking for

- Team management experience. Requires strong project and time management skills, delivering milestones on time, and effective
- 3-10 years of software engineering experience with a track record of configuring and managing SLURM deployments
- A multi-month enterprise or research deployment you led end-to-end, from scoping through signoff. You write effective status updates to keep your team updated and on schedule
- Production experience in standing up SLURM in a customer or research environment. You've configured slurmctld, slurmdbd, accounting, cgroup integration, and GPU resource selection
- Strong Linux fundamentals of systemd, cgroups v2, namespaces, networking, filesystems, firewalls, kernel module loading, PAM session modules. You can read strace and dmesg output and form a hypothesis
- Experience with Kubernetes operations including operators, CRDs, CNIs, device plugins, and node-level debugging. You've debugged a controller in production even if you haven't written one from scratch

Tags: Engineering