Compare current US jobs, responsibilities, locations and advertised pay. Includes forward deployed engineering and related deployment roles.
FDE roles first · Newer within each type
AtomicProduction engineering
USRemote
Founding forward-deployed AI engineer responsible for building domain-specific agents and AI-native systems of record across a portfolio of software businesses serving overlooked, mission-critical industries.
$200,000–$250,000
View job →Retell AIProduction engineering
Redwood City, CAOn-site
Build and launch production voice AI solutions for enterprise customers while splitting time roughly evenly between coding and direct customer work.
$150,000–$250,000
View job →Wispr FlowProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Forward Deployed Engineers own customer deployments from discovery through launch and adoption, partnering with engineering, IT, security, and business teams.
$180,000–$350,000
View job →SuperblocksProduction engineering
New York, NY · US remoteRemote
Forward Deployed Engineer owning technical success for enterprise customers on Superblocks' AI-powered internal tools platform.
Pay range unavailable
View job →SitrepsProduction engineering
Washington, DC · San Francisco, CAOn-site
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer for a venture-backed AI security company, helping public sector customers deploy AI evaluation, guardrail, and agent governance platforms in mission-critical environments.
$167,000–$203,000
View job →Apollo ResearchProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Own end-to-end deployment, integration, evaluation, and support for Watcher, a production coding-agent security product monitoring billions of agent tokens per month.
$222,000–$290,000
View job →AlexProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Forward-Deployed Engineer owning the full lifecycle of customer deployments for an AI recruiting platform: designing workflows, building integrations with ATS and third-party systems, onboarding, and production support.
$150,000–$180,000
View job →H CompanyProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +1 moreHybrid
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at H Company, an enterprise agentic AI startup, responsible for deploying AI agents at customer sites, integrating with their systems, and feeding field learnings back into the product.
Pay range unavailable
View job →EdiaProduction engineering
USRemote
Forward Deployed Engineer at Edia, an AI edtech company, to embed with large US school districts, integrate their systems (PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, etc.), and customize Edia's platform.
$150,000–$200,000
View job →Istari DigitalProduction engineering
USRemote
Forward Deployed Engineer on the Deployment Services team within Customer Success, owning the data and API layer for customer environments.
Pay range unavailable
View job →Fundamental Research LabsProduction engineering
Houston, TXHybrid
Principal-level forward deployed data scientist focused on deploying NEXUS, a large tabular model, into Houston-based Oil & Gas customers.
Pay range unavailable
View job →H CompanyProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +1 moreHybrid
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at H Company, an enterprise agentic AI startup.
Pay range unavailable
View job →Layer HealthProduction engineering
Boston, MA · New York, NYHybrid
First Forward Deploy Data Scientist at a Series-A healthcare AI startup, working directly with health system customers to turn messy clinical data into ML-ready pipelines and insights.
$150,000–$180,000
View job →Retell AIProduction engineering
Redwood City, CAOn-site
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for delivering production-ready voice AI systems for enterprise customers, from prototype through deployment, while partnering across customer, sales, and technical teams.
$180,000–$300,000
View job →MonacoProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Forward Deployed Engineer on Monaco's Delta Force team, embedding with strategic customers to own ambiguous, high-stakes problems end-to-end—from discovery to live adoption.
$200,000–$400,000
View job →GigaProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Senior individual contributor role anchoring a pod of Forward Deployed Engineers at an enterprise AI startup.
Pay range unavailable
View job →Istari DigitalProduction engineering
Seattle, WAOn-site
Istari Digital is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed directly with aerospace and defense customers, architecting and building integrations that connect CAD, CFD, FEM, and simulation pipelines to Istari's decentralized platform.
Pay range unavailable
View job →Retell AIProduction engineering
Redwood City, CAOn-site
Senior Forward Deployed Engineers deliver Retell's voice AI systems for enterprise customers from prototype through production.
$180,000–$300,000
View job →P-1 AIProduction engineering
San Mateo, CARemote
P-1 AI is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to serve as the technical lead for customer deployments of Archie, an AI engineer agent for physical-world design.
$170,000–$220,000
View job →Defense UnicornsProduction engineering
Colorado Springs, CO · Cape Canaveral, FL · +2 more · US remoteRemote
Forward-deployed data engineer responsible for deploying, integrating, and operating UDS Data Capability in classified DoD environments, spanning storage, ingestion, streaming, governance, and access.
$123,250–$166,750
View job →Istari DigitalProduction engineering
Seattle, WAOn-site
Forward Deployed Engineer embedding with commercial and international customers (including Australia) to implement digital engineering solutions using CAD/CFD/FEM and modern software practices.
Pay range unavailable
View job →GigaProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
This role is a customer-facing technical position at a Series A AI startup, responsible for building and deploying enterprise AI agents across voice, chat, and email.
$100,000–$190,000
View job →Periodic LabsProduction engineering
Menlo Park, CA · San Francisco, CAOn-site
Forward deploy physics and simulation workflows for advanced-manufacturing customer engagements, working on-site with customer engineering teams and collaborating with internal modeling and ML teams.
$200,000–$275,000
View job →Defense UnicornsProduction engineering
Colorado Springs, CO · Cape Canaveral, FL · +2 more · US remoteRemote
Senior forward-deployed data engineer responsible for deploying, hardening, integrating, and operating UDS Data Capability in classified DoD environments.
$148,750–$201,250
View job →Istari DigitalProduction engineering
Seattle, WAOn-site
Istari Digital seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with aerospace and defense customers, architecting and building integrations that connect CAD, CFD, FEM, and simulation pipelines to Istari's platform.
Pay range unavailable
View job →BobyardProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with strategic general-contractor customers, owning end-to-end solutions from discovery and prototyping through deployment, monitoring, and scale.
$130,000–$165,000
View job →Normal ComputingProduction engineering
New York, NYHybrid
Own deployment of an AI-powered EDA platform inside semiconductor customers’ environments, integrating with their data, design flows, tooling, and production infrastructure.
$200,000–$400,000
View job →FleetWorksProduction engineering
Chicago, ILOn-site
FleetWorks is hiring its first forward-deployed engineer in Chicago to embed with freight broker customers, own end-to-end deployments, and build integrations that make AI voice/text agents work in live operations.
Pay range unavailable
View job →Istari DigitalProduction engineering
US · city not listedHybrid
Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with aerospace/defense customers to architect and build integrations connecting CAD, CFD, FEM pipelines to Istari's decentralized platform.
Pay range unavailable
View job →H CompanyProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +1 moreHybrid
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for identifying high-impact customer workflows, integrating agentic AI solutions with customer systems, and delivering production-grade services.
Pay range unavailable
View job →SieveProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
This forward-deployed engineering role partners directly with frontier AI labs to translate ambiguous data requirements into production systems for finding, generating, filtering, transforming, evaluating, and packaging high-quality video datasets at scale.
$150,000–$350,000
View job →FurtherAIProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Build enterprise-grade AI agents for insurance customers, translating customer workflows into robust production solutions.
$140,000–$225,000
View job →Istari DigitalProduction engineering
Salt Lake City, UTOn-site
Embedded engineer working on-site with aerospace/defense customers to integrate Istari's platform into complex digital engineering environments.
Pay range unavailable
View job →CollateProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Join the founding team of Collate's Forward Deployed Engineering group, partnering with Fortune 100 life sciences companies to deploy production AI systems for document and regulatory workflows.
$150,000–$300,000
View job →DatologyAIProduction engineering
San Mateo, CAHybrid
Forward-deployed AI engineer responsible for deploying, operating, and driving adoption of a data-curation platform for strategic customers in complex on-premises and hybrid environments.
$230,000–$300,000
View job →SitrepsProduction engineering
Arlington, VA · Pittsburgh, PARemote
Forward Deployed Engineer building net-new, customer-facing software capabilities for defense acquisition, logistics, supply-chain, and modernization teams.
$155,000–$225,000
View job →Istari DigitalProduction engineering
El Segundo, CAOn-site
Forward Deployed Engineer embedded in aerospace/defense customer environments, architecting and building integrations between Istari's platform and complex digital engineering toolchains (CAD, CFD, FEM).
Pay range unavailable
View job →Credal.aiProduction engineering
Brooklyn, NYOn-site
Embed directly with high-stakes enterprise customers (healthcare, tech, robotics) to deliver critical outcomes and improve the core AI agent platform.
$140,000–$220,000
View job →Tessera LabsProduction engineering
New York, NY · San Francisco, CARemote
Forward-Deploy Engineers own strategic enterprise AI deployments from pre-sales through production, writing software, running process discovery, and driving customer adoption.
$180,000–$233,000
View job →VapiProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid
Forward-deployed engineering role owning enterprise voice AI deployments from scoping through production handoff while also shipping platform improvements.
$200,000–$280,000
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