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Forward Deployed Engineer, Early Career

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$120,000–$140,000Chicago, ILOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineers work directly with customers to understand complex problems and build AI solutions using business-critical data.

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At a glance

Posted base pay

$120K–$140KBelow the median

The work

Builds what the customer runs

Balance

  1. Mostly building
  2. Mixed
  3. Mostly pre-sales or support

Project stages

  1. Pre-sales (not covered)
  2. Proof of concept (not covered)
  3. Implementation
  4. Operations (not covered)

Travel Required, amount not stated

Coding
Writes production code
Builds for
External customers
Level
Senior
Role
Individual contributor

What they ask for

Tools

  • Python
  • C++
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript

Less common in FDE jobs

  • On-site37%
  • Individual contributor or manager: Individual contributor50%

Share of US FDE postings that state each fact.

The job description from endeavorai

Posted by endeavorai on

Endeavor is real-world enterprise AI.

AI models are improving faster than most companies can put them to work. Endeavor closes that gap.

We exist to secure American industrial leadership. AI is the largest advantage available to the companies that make, move, and defend things in this country, and most of them can't reach it alone. We close that distance — so their customers pay less, their people do work worth doing, and the companies themselves come out stronger than the competition abroad.

To do that, we build custom AI systems for companies in mission-critical industries — manufacturing, distribution, supply chain, defense, life sciences. Not software they rent from a vendor that doesn't understand their business. Systems they own, built inside their own stack, in production in weeks.

Operating Principles

  • One team, one fight. Small companies fail for a hundred reasons. Being internally misaligned shouldn't be one of them. We think like owners of the whole business — the question is always how we win. We're fighting the world, not each other.
  • Strong convictions, loosely held. Show up with a point of view and hold that view loosely enough that better evidence can move it. The best ideas come from candor and debate.
  • Default to open. Our clients trust us with their hardest problems and we extend that same trust internally. Information here is open by default — data, context, the reasoning behind decisions — because you can't own an outcome you can only see half of.

The Role | Forward Deployed Engineer

Forward Deployed Engineers work side by side with our customers, rapidly understanding their toughest issues; architecting and building solutions that leverage business-critical data and the latest advancements in AI to solve them. As a FDE, your contributions will have a direct impact on our customers’ missions and the real world. You’ll work in small, agile teams and own the end-to-end execution and implementation of high-stakes projects.

What We Require

  • High agency, slope, and chaos ceiling with strong first principles thinking, outcome orientation, and resiliency.
  • Engineering background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science.
  • Proficiency with one or more programming languages, such as Python, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar.
  • Must be graduating in 2026 or before.
  • Ability to travel.

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Pay and conditions

Posted pay
$120,000–$140,000
Pay details

$120K – $140K • Offers Equity • 5% match on 401(k)

Location
Chicago, IL
Work arrangement
On-site
Employment type
Full-time
Travel
Travel required, amount not stated