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FDE and deployment jobs at later-stage private companies

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EverlawInternal deployment & tooling

GTM AI Engineer

Oakland, CAHybrid

Senior GTM AI Engineer at Everlaw, owning the multi-year GTM AI technical roadmap and building an intelligence platform that optimizes Sales, Sales Ops, Marketing, and Customer Success.

$154,000–$213,000

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PerceptaDeployment team leadership

Applied AI Engineer - Manager

New York, NYOn-site

Player-coach Engineering Manager at Percepta, General Catalyst's AI transformation studio, leading a small team of Applied AI Engineers embedded with enterprise customers.

$250,000–$425,000

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AndurilInternal deployment & tooling

Senior Software Engineer, Backend - SIG

Santa Ana, CA

Senior backend engineer on Anduril’s Systems Integrity Group, building production services for simulation, digital-twin validation, and verification and validation automation.

$191,000–$253,000

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CoxInternal deployment & tooling

Sr Software Engineer

Atlanta, GA · Austin, TX · +1 moreHybrid

Senior Software Engineer on Cox Automotive's enterprise AI platform (Quick) on AWS, owning connector governance, AI artifact hub, and reliability/observability for AI at scale.

$101,500–$169,100

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CHAOS IndustriesDeployment team leadership

Technical Operations Team Lead

El Segundo, CAOn-site

Lead and mentor a team of Technical Operations Engineers at a defense-tech company, while staying hands-on in the field deploying and debugging radar and sensor systems.

$200,000–$250,000

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AndurilInternal deployment & tooling

Agentic AI Engineer, Automation

Costa Mesa, CA · Long Beach, CAOn-site

Build and own agentic AI pipelines that automate aerospace engineering workflows across design, analysis, testing, and iteration for autonomous air vehicles.

$220,000–$292,000

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RipplingInternal deployment & tooling

Senior Data Scientist, Applied AI

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior applied AI builder on Rippling's Go-to-Market Analytics team, owning the evolution of internal AI agents and applications used daily by Sales, RevOps, and Customer Success.

$138,000–$230,000

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PerceptaInternal deployment & tooling

Product Engineer

New York, NYOn-site

Product Engineer building cross-customer products that turn forward-deployed delivery learnings into reusable tooling and agentic workflow infrastructure.

$300,000–$425,000

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SkydioInternal deployment & tooling

Lead GTM Platform Engineer

San Mateo, CAHybrid

Lead the architecture and hands-on development of Skydio’s GTM platform, spanning sales planning, forecasting, deal operations, fulfillment, customer success, and AI-powered workflows.

$230,000–$303,000

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Relativity SpaceInternal deployment & tooling

AI Software Engineer

Long Beach, CA

Build production AI applications and agents for engineers and operators across the Terran R rocket and automated factory lifecycle.

$115,000–$173,000

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RelativityInternal deployment & tooling

AI Software Engineer II

Long Beach, CA

AI Software Engineer II building production AI applications and agents for engineers and operators across an automated rocket factory and integrated launch platform.

$130,000–$196,000

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AnthropicInternal deployment & tooling

AI Operations Engineer, Partnerships

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Build and operate Claude-powered agentic workflows for Anthropic’s partner experience organization, integrating with partner portals, CRMs, enablement, finance, and database systems.

$215,000–$300,000

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SpaceXInternal deployment & tooling

Software Engineer (Starlink)

Hawthorne, CA

Software Engineer on the Starlink Enterprise team, focused on improving data quality across go-to-market systems and building integrations and AI agents (including MCP servers and Grok) to automate sales workflows.

$125,000–$175,000

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Relativity SpaceInternal deployment & tooling

AI Software Engineer II

Long Beach, CA

AI Software Engineer II on Relativity Space’s Terrestrial Software team, building production AI applications and agents for engineers and operators across the rocket development and manufacturing lifecycle.

$130,000–$196,000

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Scale AIInternal deployment & tooling

Software Engineer - AI Enablement

San Francisco, CA

Software Engineer joining a 0→1 AI Enablement team building full-stack agent-powered tools for internal workflows and eventual enterprise commercialization.

$180,000–$225,000

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RelativityInternal deployment & tooling

Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Infrastructure

Long Beach, CAHybrid

Staff engineer owning the reliability and evolution of a production agentic infrastructure stack spanning local LLM inference, inter-agent systems, parametric CAD, physical compute, and multi-site networking.

$181,000–$271,000

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xAIInternal deployment & tooling

Software Engineer, Data Center - Memphis

Memphis, TN · Southaven, MSOn-site

This role builds and operates the internal software platforms that keep xAI's data centers running at frontier-AI scale.

Pay range unavailable

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Viral NationInternal deployment & tooling

Solutions Architect, AI Systems

US · city not listed

This is a hands-on Solutions Architect role at Viral Nation, a social-first marketing agency, focused on turning proprietary data into AI-driven products.

Pay range unavailable

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AndurilInternal deployment & tooling

Senior Data Analyst, Quality

Ashville, OHOn-site

Senior site applications and analytics engineering role for Arsenal-1, Anduril’s greenfield, high-volume manufacturing facility in Ashville, Ohio.

$143,000–$191,000

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PerplexityInternal deployment & tooling

Legal and Operations Engineering Lead

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Leads the architecture and delivery of a Legal and Operations Engineering platform that automates high-volume workflows across contracting, e-discovery, governance, vendor onboarding, and litigation management.

$150,000–$250,000

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GongInternal deployment & tooling

GTM AI Architect

Austin, TX · Chicago, IL · +3 more

Founding hire on Gong's new AI Acceleration Team inside GTM Strategy & Operations.

$138,000–$210,000

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TWG GlobalInternal deployment & tooling

Staff / VP, Data Science - Marketing & Sales Focus

New York, NYHybrid

Staff Data Scientist (VP) on the AI Science team at TWG Global, a diversified holding company, responsible for designing and deploying production AI systems for marketing, sales, and operations across consumer-facing businesses.

$280,000–$300,000

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OptiverInternal deployment & tooling

AI Engineer

Chicago, IL

Optiver's Applied AI and Platform Engineering team seeks an experienced AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems—agent platforms, AI assistants, evaluation frameworks—that automate workflows and accelerate engineering across the firm.

$200,000–$200,000

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SpaceXInternal deployment & tooling

Application Software Engineer, Applied AI

CAOn-site

SpaceX's Application Software team is hiring an Applied AI engineer to design, evaluate, deploy, and integrate LLM and agentic systems that power mission-critical applications across launch vehicle production, flight, and Starlink operations.

$125,000–$195,000

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FaireInternal deployment & tooling

GTM Systems Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

GTM Systems Engineer on Faire's AI-first GTM Engineering team, building and operating production AI agents, integrations, and automations across the customer lifecycle.

$174,500–$240,000

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AndurilInternal deployment & tooling

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, SIG

Santa Ana, CA

Senior full-stack engineer on Anduril’s Systems Integrity Group, building simulation, digital-twin, and verification frameworks for shipbuilding manufacturing systems.

$191,000–$253,000

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SpaceXInternal deployment & tooling

Application Software Engineer, Applied AI

Redmond, WAOn-site

SpaceX's Application Software team is hiring an Applied AI engineer to design, evaluate, deploy, and integrate LLM and agentic systems into mission-critical applications supporting launch vehicle production, flight, and Starlink operations.

$125,000–$200,000

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Horizon mediaInternal deployment & tooling

Senior AI Engineer, Applied AI Solutions

New York, NYHybrid

Foundational senior engineer on a new AI development team at a large independent media agency, designing and building agentic systems that automate complex enterprise workflows.

$195,000–$225,000

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Included HealthInternal deployment & tooling

Staff AI Solutions Engineer

USRemote

Staff-level AI Solutions Engineer at Included Health, owning the technical strategy and implementation of internal LLM-based automations, agents, and integrations across enterprise teams.

$159,780–$238,080

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SpaceXInternal deployment & tooling

Application Software Engineer, Applied AI

Bastrop, TXOn-site

Design, evaluate, deploy, and integrate modern AI systems (LLMs, agentic systems) into mission-critical applications that accelerate SpaceX launch vehicle production, flight, and Starlink operations.

Pay range unavailable

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ClickHouseInternal deployment & tooling

GTM Engineer, AI & Automation

San Francisco, CARemote

Build and operate AI agents, automation, and data-activation systems across ClickHouse's consumption-based go-to-market motion.

Pay range unavailable

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Strive HealthInternal deployment & tooling

Principal AI Engineer

Denver, COHybrid

Partner with leaders across business units to identify and prioritize high-leverage AI opportunities that reduce manual work and improve speed/quality.

$130,000–$196,000

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