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FDE and deployment jobs at growth-stage companies

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WriterProduction engineering

AI deployment engineer (West)

San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +3 moreHybrid

Deployment engineer partnering with Fortune 500 enterprise customers to architect and implement AI solutions on Writer's platform, owning end-to-end technical delivery and driving adoption.

$131,800–$185,000

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SierraProduction engineering

Healthcare Integrations Architect

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Design and deliver healthcare integrations for Sierra’s AI agents, translating customer requirements into EHR interfaces, data flows, configuration, and go-live plans.

$150,000–$290,000

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SiftProduction engineering

Application Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA · Los Angeles, CAHybrid

Application Software Engineer serving as the technical bridge between Sift’s telemetry platform and customers building aerospace, autonomous, renewable-energy, and other advanced engineering systems.

$125,000–$175,000

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WriterProduction engineering

AI deployment engineer (UK)

San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +3 moreHybrid

Deployment engineer role at Writer, a generative AI platform company, focused on partnering with enterprise customers to architect and implement AI solutions using Writer's platform and LLMs.

Pay range unavailable

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RillaProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Integrations

New York, NYOn-site

This forward-deployed engineering role owns end-to-end customer integration projects, from understanding executive workflows and data models to wrangling large-scale data and building integrations or full-stack features.

$200,000–$230,000

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WriterProduction engineering

AI deployment engineer (East)

San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +3 moreHybrid

Writer is hiring a hybrid AI Deployment Engineer to partner with Fortune 500 enterprise customers, architecting and delivering custom AI solutions on Writer's platform (LLMs, APIs, Knowledge Graph).

$146,400–$185,000

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SierraProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Agent - Insurance

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Build and operate production-grade AI agents for insurance and broader financial-services customers, owning the full Agent Development Life Cycle from pilot through deployment and continuous iteration.

$180,000–$390,000

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LumafieldProduction engineering

Application Engineer, CV/ML

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Lumafield seeks an ML-experienced, customer-facing engineer to develop and deploy computer-vision models on CT data for industrial inspection.

Pay range unavailable

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WriterProduction engineering

AI deployment engineer (Central)

San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +3 moreHybrid

Deployment engineer role partnering with Fortune 500 enterprise customers to architect and implement AI solutions on Writer's platform.

$131,800–$166,000

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SierraProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Agent - Financial Services

San Francisco, CAOn-site

This engineer owns the end-to-end delivery and continuous improvement of production AI agents for financial-services customers, from initial pilots through scaled deployment.

$180,000–$390,000

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Shift5Production engineering

Data Solutions Architect - Data Science

Rosslyn, VARemote

Own end-to-end data science engagements that turn ambiguous customer problems and operational data into testable hypotheses, actionable insights, and scalable product capabilities.

$120,000–$170,000

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Distyl AIProduction engineering

AI Engineer, Lead

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

Leads architecture, delivery, and continuous improvement of production AI systems for large enterprise customers, combining models, agents, retrieval, evaluation, and execution.

$200,000–$250,000

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Observe.AIProduction engineering

AI Agent Engineer, Client Facing

Redwood City, CAHybrid

Build and deploy enterprise-grade Voice AI agents, Chat AI agents, and AI Copilot solutions from prompt and workflow design through integrations, production deployment, and performance optimization.

$108,000–$170,000

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Fireworks AIProduction engineering

AI Field Engineer - Enterprise

San Mateo, CAHybrid

Enterprise AI Field Engineer responsible for embedding with large customers and technology partners to take GenAI systems from discovery and POCs through production-scale deployment.

$200,000–$260,000

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Distyl AIProduction engineering

AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

AI Engineer responsible for designing, deploying, and operating production AI systems inside customer environments, from Python services and compound workflows to evaluation and observability.

$150,000–$250,000

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Physical IntelligenceProduction engineering

Deployments Software Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

This role is on the Deployments team at Physical Intelligence, responsible for integrating state-of-the-art vision-language-action models with robots deployed on customer sites.

Pay range unavailable

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PhysicsXProduction engineering

Machine Learning Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Machine Learning Engineer in the Delivery team, building and deploying production ML systems that address engineering and physics problems for industrial customers.

$150,000–$190,000

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Fireworks AIProduction engineering

AI Field Engineer - Strategic Partnerships

San Mateo, CAHybrid

AI Field Engineer owning the technical relationship between Fireworks and strategic partner ecosystems, with responsibility for co-sell architectures, production deployments, customer POCs, and partner enablement.

$200,000–$260,000

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Distyl AIProduction engineering

Research Engineers, Agents

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

Research Engineers bridge frontier AI research and production deployment by designing, evaluating, and hardening agentic systems for complex enterprise workflows.

$150,000–$250,000

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Bland AIProduction engineering

Agent Solutions Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

The Agent Solutions Engineer owns end-to-end delivery of production-ready AI agents, translating ambiguous customer workflows into integrated solutions and driving deployment, adoption, and expansion.

$120,000–$200,000

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PeregrineProduction engineering

Deployment Strategist, Federal

Washington, DCHybrid

Own deployment of Peregrine’s operational-intelligence platform for federal customers, translating mission-critical workflows and siloed data into products, models, and pipelines.

$140,000–$190,000

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NooksProduction engineering

Agent Engineer, Agent Studio

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Agent Engineer, Agent Studio owns customer deployments of autonomous AI agents for SDR workflows, from account strategy and prospecting through outreach and follow-up.

$215,000–$300,000

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MercorProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Enterprise Applied AI

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYOn-site

Build and deploy production software for Mercor's Enterprise team, embedding with customers to translate ambiguous business needs into integrations, workflows, and scalable AI-powered systems.

$145,000–$285,000

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PeregrineProduction engineering

Deployment Strategist

San Francisco, CA

The Deployment Strategist owns enterprise product deployment and customer impact delivery for government and other mission-critical customers.

$120,000–$190,000

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NooksProduction engineering

Senior Software Engineer, Agent Studio

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior Software Engineer building AI agents that automate 90% of SDR non-calling work, with GM-level ownership of customer revenue outcomes.

$215,000–$300,000

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PhysicsXProduction engineering

Machine Learning Engineer

New York, NYHybrid

This Machine Learning Engineer joins PhysicsX’s Delivery team to deploy production ML solutions for engineering and physics problems, working closely with data scientists, simulation engineers, and customers.

$150,000–$190,000

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StriveworksProduction engineering

Machine Learning Engineer (Active Secret Clearance)

Austin, TXHybrid

Machine Learning Engineer contributing to customer projects and core AIOps products, developing models, analytics, and data pipelines across diverse modalities including image, video, text, geospatial, and time-series data.

$140,000–$165,000

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PeregrineProduction engineering

Deployment Strategist

New York, NY

Deployment Strategists own enterprise product deployment and customer impact delivery for government and other mission-critical organizations.

$120,000–$190,000

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