Forward Deployed Engineer ML

What You Will Do Daily:

• End-to-End Ownership: Proactively engage with client or partner teams in Research Engineering Data Science MLOps Infrastructure to understand their business and technical requirements. With our internal R&D team in the loop design specific implementations that you will integrate optimize and productionize within the client’s existing or greenfield systems as well as transferring technical knowledge to client teams when applicable.
• Subject Expert: Stay up-to-date with the latest LLM capabilities and implementation patterns you are learning driven. You will need to explain complex technical details and concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Influence Model Training & Tuning: Represent our core R&D team on-site leading technical engagement with modern techniques covering all stages of model training using complex proprietary client data. Ensure architecture is aligned with and optimized for specific constraints (e.g. GPU types air-gapping).
• Develop Deployment Strategy: Define and execute a global technical strategy for integrating our ML solutions into diverse client environments ensuring compliance with sector-specific data security standards and performance SLAs. Based on your implementations build reusable playbooks and libraries that will accelerate yourself and others.
• Building Relationships: Operate autonomously and with agency to build strong relationships with clients create strategic technical partnerships and drive high-value referenceable production deployments.
• Serve as Internal Expert: Act as the primary internal consultant advising product research and sales on real-world client infrastructure limitations performance bottlenecks and emerging technical standards necessary for product success.

The Experience You Will Need:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Experience: 2+ years of experience in a technical customer facing role such as Forward Deployed Engineer or as a Software/ML Engineer with consulting experience.
• ML Engineering & Training Expertise: Experience in the Machine Learning lifecycle (training optimization deployment) with a proven ability to lead and execute complex model deployments in production environments.
• Forward Deployed/Consulting Background: Proven track record working within or closely alongside client engineering teams to successfully deploy and integrate complex high-performance software involving cloud or on-premise ML workloads.
• Technical & MLOps Knowledge: Understanding of modern ML frameworks programming languages including Python and deployment technologies (Docker Kubernetes cloud services like SageMaker/Vertex AI/Azure AI).
• Value-Driven Influence: Demonstrated ability to influence senior technical leaders and lead engineers translating complex model performance and system architectures into clear tangible business value and deployment assurance.

Why You Will Love It Here:

• Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!). 
• Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains. 
• We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai India Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
• We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry new skills are necessary and we're happy to help our team acquire them.
• As the leader in our field our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
• We embrace transparency with regular meetings cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.
 

Benefits of Working With Sonar:

• Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package.
• We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations. You will receive  23 days of PTO per calendar year (on a pro-rated basis depending on your employment start date) with additional time provided for sickness life events and holidays.
• We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match fully vested on day one of participation.
• Fully paid parking in the heart of downtown Austin Texas.
• Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
• We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.
• Monthly catered events and team events
 

What We Do

Sonar provides the essential verification layer for the AI-driven development era ensuring all code—whether human-written or AI-generated—is code you can trust.Today AI coding tools are generating explosive volumes of code. This has created an "engineering productivity paradox" : faster code writing doesn't automatically lead to faster safer software delivery. The new bottleneck is verification.Sonar solves this. Integrating code quality and code security into a single platform (SonarQube) Sonar is the foundation for high performance software engineering analyzing over 750 billion lines of code daily to ensure applications are secure reliable and maintainable. As an independent verification platform Sonar enables organizations to securely develop at the speed of AI. We are driven by a deep belief in our people a commitment to excellence and an unwavering dedication to delivery. We operate as a united group where our collective success is the sum of each individual's contributions. Our company culture is driven by the values of CODE: Committed Obsessed Deliberate & Effective. This mindset reflects our culture of creativity collaboration and pride in the work we do. Rooted in the open source community Sonar’s solutions support over 35 programming languages frameworks and infrastructure technologies. Today Sonar is used by 7M+ developers worldwide including ServiceNow Booking.com Deutsche Bank AstraZeneca and Ford Motor Company.Sonar is headquartered in Geneva Switzerland with additional offices in Austin Texas; Bochum Germany; London Singapore and Tokyo. The company is rapidly growing with over 800 employees!Join us in our mission to solve the trillion-dollar challenge of bad code!

Why Work With Us

We are a product-first company with a people-first culture. Every employee has the opportunity to grow and learn. We promote from within provide regular feedback and professional development opportunities value the right to fail along with respect and kindness and work with team members to achieve their full potential.

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