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FDE and deployment jobs at later-stage private companies

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blockstreamProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Menlo Park, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with enterprise customer engineering teams to implement, integrate, deploy, and support Blockstream products in complex financial-institution environments.

Pay range unavailable

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DialpadProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

US · city not listed

Customer-embedded Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for taking qualified AI opportunities from workflow scoping through implementation, production deployment, and first-shift stabilization.

$112,400–$171,600

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BasetenProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (Training)

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineers own technical outcomes for major AI customers, acting as the technical lead across model inference, post-training, deployment, and production operations.

$200,000–$400,000

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DatabricksProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

Chicago, IL

Databricks seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with enterprise customers, owning architecture and delivering production-grade data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

$182,000–$250,208

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blockstreamProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NYRemote

Forward-deployed engineer responsible for taking Blockstream enterprise products from technical pre-sales and implementation through production deployment and post-launch support.

Pay range unavailable

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DatabricksProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NY

Databricks seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead customer engagements, architecting and delivering production-grade data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

$182,000–$250,208

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AnthropicProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · +1 moreHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineers embed with strategic enterprise customers to build and deploy production applications using Claude models, combining software engineering, LLM expertise, and customer-facing discovery.

$280,000–$320,000

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DatabricksProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

USRemote

Customer-facing, billable Forward Deployed Engineer at Databricks who owns architecture and leads end-to-end delivery of production data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

$182,000–$250,208

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BambooHRProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

UTHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at BambooHR, owning the full customer engagement cycle for SMB customers—from discovery to deployed AI-powered solutions.

Pay range unavailable

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - NYC

New York, NYHybrid

OpenAI is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to own end-to-end deployment of AI systems within healthcare organizations, including payers, providers, health systems, and healthcare tech companies.

$185,000–$300,000

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DatabricksProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Databricks is hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to work hands-on with enterprise customers, architecting and delivering production-grade data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

$182,000–$250,208

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project44Production engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Chicago, ILHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with high-value logistics service provider (LSP) accounts, owning integration architecture and customizing agent workflows.

$130,000–$190,000

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DatabricksProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

US · city not listed

This is a hands-on, customer-facing role at Databricks where you own architecture and lead design decisions to build and productionize end-to-end data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

$182,000–$250,208

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TalkdeskProduction engineering

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, HLS

Seattle, WA

This Staff Forward Deployed Engineer role at Talkdesk leads technical execution for deploying Agentic AI solutions into strategic enterprise customers.

$200,000–$260,000

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - SF

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Own end-to-end technical deployment of OpenAI models within healthcare organizations (payers, providers, health systems, health tech), from discovery through productionization and handoff.

$185,000–$300,000

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AfreshProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer who alternates between embedding with enterprise grocery customers and building the reusable platform behind those deployments.

$156,060–$211,140

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SayariProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, CE (Evergreen)

USRemote

Forward Deployed Engineers embed with strategic clients to solve high-stakes financial crime, supply chain, and national security problems, owning deployments from discovery through operationalization.

$160,000–$180,000

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HadrianProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Torrance, CA · San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer at Hadrian embeds on enterprise customer programs to drive them end-to-end, configuring and integrating the Opus platform and building net-new software at the edge.

$120,000–$300,000

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AfreshProduction engineering

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer who splits time between embedding with enterprise grocery customers to integrate data and ship production AI systems, and building reusable platform infrastructure from those field learnings.

$168,912–$253,368

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PostmanProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Backend)

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer building and operating production-grade backend and distributed systems for enterprise customers, including deployments in environments Postman does not control.

$220,000–$240,000

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HoneycombProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

USRemote

Senior Forward Deployed Engineers serve as strategic technical partners to customers, owning telemetry data strategy while also embedding with engineering teams to deliver production outcomes.

$155,000–$210,000 · OTE

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