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FDE and deployment jobs at later-stage private companies

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DatabricksProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Retail

US · city not listed

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

$182,000–$250,208

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reflection.aiProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, Lead - AI Engineer

New York, NYOn-site

Leads Reflection’s Forward Deployed Engineering function within the AI Solutions team, owning technical strategy and delivery of complex agentic applications from pre-sales discovery through production.

Pay range unavailable

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AI FundProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (Ayama)

SF Bay AreaHybrid

Ayama, an AI startup partnered with AI Fund and a Fortune 500 energy leader, seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to be the technical face at customer sites.

Pay range unavailable

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AI FundProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Mountain View, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed AI Engineer embedded with enterprise clients to identify AI opportunities, redesign workflows, and implement AI-powered solutions.

Pay range unavailable

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Judi HealthProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Charlotte, NC · Denver, CO · +1 moreHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer leading high-impact, client-facing software initiatives across enterprise API integrations, data migrations, and scalable cloud-native systems.

$116,400–$200,000

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SandboxAQProduction engineering

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, AQNav

USRemote

SandboxAQ's AQNav team seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy and validate GPS-independent magnetic navigation solutions on military and commercial platforms.

$118,400–$222,000

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ParloaProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer - US

New York, NY

Forward Deployed Engineers lead hands-on, end-to-end deployments of Parloa’s enterprise AI platform in complex customer environments.

$140,000–$160,000

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DatabricksProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Retail

Dallas, TX

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

$182,000–$250,208

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CohereProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform

San Francisco, CARemote

Forward Deployed Engineer shaping Cohere’s North AI workspace by translating ambiguous enterprise problems into production-grade, LLM-powered agentic workflows.

CA$175,000–CA$385,000

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Scale AIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, GenAI

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineers build and deploy customer-specific GenAI data infrastructure end to end, spanning front-end applications, back-end systems, and large-scale architecture.

$179,400–$224,250

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StripeProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, Privy

New York, NY

Forward Deployed Engineer serving as the primary technical owner for building and deploying new capabilities with Privy’s most important customers.

$190,400–$285,600

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DatabricksProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Retail

Denver, CO

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

$182,000–$250,208

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Scale AIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Public Sector

Austin, TX · Colorado Springs, CO · +4 moreHybrid

Forward-deployed software engineer embedded with U.S. government customers across military and intelligence organizations, owning AI application delivery from prototype through production.

$138,000–$292,560

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VercelProduction engineering

Forward-Deployed Engineer 

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

Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer in Professional Services, partnering hands-on with strategic enterprise customers on frontend modernization, large-scale Next.js migrations, performance optimization, and production AI adoption.

$137,000–$207,000

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DatabricksProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Retail

USRemote

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

$182,000–$250,208

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GoviniProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Data Scientist

Arlington, VA · Pittsburgh, PARemote

Build and deploy scalable AI and data science solutions that turn proprietary and commercial datasets into actionable intelligence for government clients facing complex defense acquisition and national security challenges.

Pay range unavailable

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DatabricksProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Retail

US · city not listed

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

$182,000–$250,208

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GoviniProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Senior Data Scientist

Arlington, VA · Pittsburgh, PARemote

This senior data scientist role leads the end-to-end design, evaluation, and deployment of scalable AI/ML systems for complex defense acquisition and national security problems.

Pay range unavailable

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GoviniProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Arlington, VA · Pittsburgh, PARemote

Forward Deploy​ed Software Engineers build differentiated 0-to-1 software capabilities directly with customers, owning discovery, prototyping, development, and iteration end to end.

Pay range unavailable

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Cursor (Anysphere)Production engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineers embed with customer engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and ship production-grade Cursor workflows, from discovery through post-production support.

Pay range unavailable

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Seattle

Seattle, WAHybrid

This role embeds with strategic customers to design and deploy custom full-stack solutions using OpenAI's APIs, operating at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development.

$153,000–$325,000

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