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# FDE jobs at William Blair

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/william-blair

2 open forward deployed engineer (FDE) jobs at William Blair across 1 US metro.

**2 postings** 1 metro [Careers at William Blair ↗](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/embed) read Nov 8, 2026

## 2 open FDE roles at William Blair

### [Lead Data Scientist – AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/38e590bfcbf12fdf)

Chicago, IL Hybrid 7mo ago

$186,000–$222,000

- [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/38e590bfcbf12fdf)

### [Senior Data Scientist – AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/dfd01d9ed1d97c9c)

Chicago, IL Hybrid 7mo ago

$157,000–$187,000

- [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/dfd01d9ed1d97c9c)

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## How William Blair describes FDE work

Both postings describe production code, versus 80% of US FDE postings. Both are read as senior or staff roles, versus 94% of US FDE postings.

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