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FDE and deployment jobs at early-stage companies

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Istari DigitalDeployment strategy

Sr. Deployment Strategist

US · city not listedHybrid

This role is a senior customer-facing program owner at a defense digital engineering startup, accountable for the success of a flagship federal program.

Pay range unavailable

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FlipImplementation & delivery

Implementation Manager, Healthcare

Marina Del Rey, CA · Brooklyn, NYOn-site

Own end-to-end technical implementations for healthcare customers, from post-sale discovery through production launch and post-launch support.

$120,000–$150,000

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Istari DigitalDeployment strategy

Deployment Strategist

Seattle, WARemote

Istari Digital seeks a Deployment Strategist to own the end-to-end outcome of a customer program, embedding with forward deployed engineers and government/industry customers to drive adoption of their digital engineering platform.

Pay range unavailable

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GovWellImplementation & delivery

Data Solutions Engineer

New York, NYHybrid

Own end-to-end migration of messy municipal data—including permits, parcels, inspections, and licenses—into accurate, trusted production data.

$130,000–$240,000

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Tessera LabsDeployment strategy

Deployed Strategist

New York, NY · San Francisco, CAHybrid

Own strategic enterprise AI deployments from discovery and pre-sales through production, spanning customer outcomes, technical solutioning, and product strategy.

$150,000–$210,000

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Istari DigitalDeployment strategy

Deployment Strategist

USRemote

Istari Digital seeks a Deployment Strategist to own the end-to-end outcome of a customer program in defense digital engineering.

Pay range unavailable

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Retell AIDeployment strategy

Deployment Strategist

Redwood City, CAOn-site

The Deployment Strategist owns enterprise voice-AI implementations from discovery through production launch, combining customer strategy, technical solution design, project execution, and business-outcome measurement.

$170,000–$260,000

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TitanImplementation & delivery

Agent Product Manger

New York, NY · San Francisco, CAOn-site

Titan is seeking an Agent Product Manager to deploy and tune AI agents in enterprise client environments.

$185,000–$250,000

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Bluefish AIImplementation & delivery

Senior Customer AI Engineer

New York, NYHybrid

Senior Customer AI Engineer responsible for the technical relationship with enterprise customers, spanning implementation, integrations, optimization, measurement, and expansion.

Pay range unavailable

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Istari DigitalDeployment strategy

Deployment Strategist

Huntsville, ALOn-site

Istari Digital seeks a Deployment Strategist to own the outcome of a customer program end-to-end, acting as the single accountable leader and named Program Manager on major federal contracts.

Pay range unavailable

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GovWellDeployment strategy

Deployment Strategist, New Business

New York, NYHybrid

GovWell is hiring a Deployment Strategist to lead end-to-end implementations for new municipal customers, managing complex multi-stakeholder projects from onboarding through go-live.

$100,000–$130,000

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CollateImplementation & delivery

Senior Enterprise Implementation Manager

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Own the full customer journey for enterprise life-sciences clients from deal close to go-live, designing onboarding, configuring the AI platform, and driving adoption.

$141,000–$200,000

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Istari DigitalDeployment strategy

Deployment Strategist

Dayton, OHOn-site

Istari Digital seeks a Deployment Strategist to own the outcome of customer programs in defense digital engineering, acting as the single accountable leader and named Program Manager on federal contracts.

Pay range unavailable

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Fundamental Research LabsDeployment strategy

Solutions Architect

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Fundamental Research Labs seeks a Solutions Architect to bridge customers, engineering, and product, guiding Fortune 100 enterprises from early discovery through production deployment of NEXUS, a large tabular model for predictive analytics.

Pay range unavailable

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Liquid AIImplementation & delivery

Solutions Architect

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Liquid AI is building a solutions architecture function from scratch and seeks a founding Solutions Architect to own customer engagements end-to-end.

Pay range unavailable

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Istari DigitalDeployment strategy

Deployment Strategist

El Segundo, CAOn-site

Istari Digital seeks a Deployment Strategist to own the end-to-end outcome of a customer program, acting as the single accountable point of contact and named Program Manager on major federal contracts.

Pay range unavailable

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Credal.aiImplementation & delivery

Customer Deployment Engineer

Brooklyn, NYOn-site

Customer Deployment Engineer responsible for deploying and onboarding enterprise customers, building proof-of-concepts, and partnering with end users to shape the product.

$120,000–$160,000

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Thread AIDeployment strategy

Federal Deployment Lead

New York, NYOn-site

Thread AI seeks a Federal Deployment Lead to own the full lifecycle of deploying its AI orchestration platform (Lemma) within federal agencies.

$150,000–$230,000

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SimileDeployment strategy

Deployment Strategist

New York, NYOn-site

Deployment Strategist embeds with enterprise account teams to own 2–3 customer relationships, lead deployments, and handle ongoing customer needs.

$150,000–$300,000

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DustImplementation & delivery

Solutions Engineer Post-Sales

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYOn-site

Post-Sales Solutions Engineer serving enterprise customers as their technical partner, leading implementations, integrations, workshops, and high-value AI workflows that drive adoption, retention, and expansion.

Pay range unavailable

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AuctorDeployment strategy

Deployment Strategist

New York, NYOn-site

Deployment Strategist partners with enterprise consulting and implementation teams to configure Auctor's AI agents, lead deployments from discovery through go-live, and turn customer insights into scalable product improvements.

$130,000–$230,000

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Thread AIDeployment strategy

Applied AI Strategist

New York, NYOn-site

Thread AI seeks an Applied AI Strategist to act as the bridge between its composable AI orchestration platform and enterprise customers.

$145,000–$200,000

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TurbopufferImplementation & delivery

customer engineer

USRemote

Customer Engineer role focused on hands-on support for Turbopuffer's AI infrastructure customers, debugging issues, optimizing queries, and owning outcomes via Slack and docs.

Pay range unavailable

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UncountableImplementation & delivery

ML Solution Consultant

New York, NY · San Francisco, CA

Uncountable is hiring an ML Solution Consultant to bridge data science and industrial R&D, deploying AI capabilities to enterprise customers in chemicals, pharma, and materials.

$110,000–$130,000

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LightsparkInternal deployment & tooling

Senior Software Engineer, Data & AI

Culver City, CA

Senior Software Engineer on a small Data & AI team, expanding Lighthouse from an analytics platform into an internal AI platform used across Sales, Finance, Operations, Legal, Compliance, and Partnerships.

$200,000–$238,000

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ImpiricusTechnical pre-sales

Product Solutions Architect

USRemote

First Product Solutions Architect hire at an AI-powered HCP engagement platform, owning the technical side of the Ascend sales and implementation cycle.

$170,000–$210,000

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Twelve LabsDeployment team leadership

Director of Engineering, Deployment

USRemote

Leads the engineering organization responsible for deploying and integrating TwelveLabs' multimodal video AI across hyperscalers, private cloud, on-premises, air-gapped, and other complex enterprise environments.

$275,000–$360,000

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SuperblocksCustomer adoption & accounts

AI Deployment Strategist

USRemote

This role owns the full customer lifecycle for Superblocks' strategic accounts, turning each landed customer into an expansion engine.

Pay range unavailable

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firecrawlCustomer adoption & accounts

Success Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Own the technical success of Firecrawl customer accounts from deployment through adoption, retention, and expansion.

$190,000–$265,000

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Retell AIInternal deployment & tooling

Internal Deployed Engineer

Redwood City, CAOn-site

Internal deployed engineering role on Retell AI's Founders Initiatives team, working directly with founders to build production-grade AI workflows, internal tools, and automations across recruiting, security, finance, operations, customer support, and GTM.

$180,000–$300,000

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FluidstackInternal deployment & tooling

Decision Engineer, Compute Operations

New York, NYOn-site

Build decision and operations software for Fluidstack's rapidly expanding AI infrastructure fleet, spanning GPU machines, bare-metal and Kubernetes health, repairs, hardware qualification, facility assets, and technician workflows.

$224,000–$300,000

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RoboForceInternal deployment & tooling

Lead AI Native Engineer

Milpitas, CAOn-site

Lead the hands-on architecture and production deployment of RoboForce’s vertical agents and shared agent foundation, reporting directly to the co-founder.

Pay range unavailable

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