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FDE and deployment jobs at later-stage private companies

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NotionProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, GTM, AMER

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer on Notion’s Services team leading hands-on technical delivery for complex enterprise customer engagements.

$175,000–$240,000 · OTE

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Software Engineer - NYC

New York, NYHybrid

This Forward Deployed Software Engineer role at OpenAI partners with strategic customers to design and build custom full-stack solutions using OpenAI's APIs.

$153,000–$325,000

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BasetenProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineers partner directly with customers to architect, build, deploy, and operate high-scale AI applications on Baseten.

$165,000–$330,000

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, Gov

Washington, DC · Seattle, WA · +1 moreHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer embedding with defense, intelligence, and federal stakeholders to lead complex deployments of frontier AI models in production.

$145,800–$280,000

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DatabricksProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Manufacturing

New York, NY

This senior, customer-facing Forward Deployed Engineer will architect and deliver production-grade data and AI systems for enterprise customers using Databricks, spanning data engineering, distributed computing, ML/AI, and application development.

$182,000–$250,208

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AndurilProduction engineering

Senior Mission Software Engineer

Lexington, MA

Senior Mission Software Engineer responsible for the end-to-end health, uptime, and evolution of deployed imaging systems running on edge-compute devices in austere environments.

$191,000–$253,000

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Scale AIProduction engineering

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Public Sector

Denver, CO · Honolulu, HI · +1 more

Own the architecture, production delivery, and evaluation of generative and agentic ML capabilities for mission-critical government systems, including Donovan and Thunderforge.

$235,200–$294,000

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