$126,000–$210,000
Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Delivery and Operations
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Map survey workflows, handoffs, exceptions, approvals, and bottlenecks, then establish measurable baselines.
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At a glance
Posted base pay
Not posted
Median $188K
Typical senior FDE payMiddle 50% of 1,748 postings$160K–$220KThe work
Builds for teams inside the company
Balance
- Mostly building
- Mixed
- Mostly pre-sales or support
Project stages
- Pre-sales (not covered)
- Proof of concept
- Implementation
- Operations
Travel Required, amount not stated
- Coding
- Writes production code
- Builds for
- Internal teams
- Level
- Senior
- Role
- Individual contributor
What they ask for
Experience
Background
Tools
Less common in FDE jobs
- Who you build for: Internal teams14%
- Covers proofs of concept39%
- Individual contributor or manager: Individual contributor50%
Share of US FDE postings that state each fact.
What you’ll do
- Build and integrate agent-first workflows for vendor engagement, survey creation, translation, and fielding.
- Connect AI workflows to Salesforce and Sermo’s homegrown survey platforms.
- Implement human approval controls, evaluations, monitoring, and quality safeguards.
- Measure adoption, response rates, turnaround, and time saved; prioritize follow-on AI opportunities.
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of software engineering, including 2+ years deploying AI workflows or agents in production.
- Demonstrated agent-first redesign of a real business workflow with measured results.
- Hands-on LLM workflow experience, including structured extraction, routing, agentic execution, and evaluation.
- Production Python and at least one typed language, with integrations across CRMs, tools, APIs, and data systems.
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