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FDE and deployment jobs at later-stage private companies

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AndurilProduction engineering

Senior Front End Software Engineer, React

Arlington, VA

Senior frontend engineer on Anduril’s Discovery team, extending Lattice OS for command and control of complex assets, missile defense missions, networking, and remote asset management in far-edge environments.

$191,000–$253,000

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Carnegie RoboticsProduction engineering

Software Engineer - Military

Pittsburgh, PA

Software engineer role on an interdisciplinary team developing robotics algorithms and applications for U.S. military stakeholders, processing sensor data from depth cameras and other modalities.

Pay range unavailable

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Agile DefenseProduction engineering

MSS Developer

US · city not listedOn-site

MSS Developer role at Peterson Space Force Base, CO, requiring an active Top Secret/SCI clearance to start.

Pay range unavailable

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AndurilProduction engineering

Mission Software Engineer

Reston, VA

Mission Software Engineers own customer-deployed software spanning networking, autonomy, robotics, systems integration, and data-heavy applications.

$191,000–$253,000

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AndurilProduction engineering

Mission Software Engineer, Senior

Reston, VA

Senior Mission Software Engineer responsible for owning and deploying customer-facing software that integrates networking, autonomy, robotics, and complex systems.

$220,000–$292,000

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Applied IntuitionProduction engineering

Robotics Integration Engineer (TL)

Sunnyvale, CAOn-site

This is a tech lead role on Applied Intuition's Industrials team, owning the full hardware/software platform for autonomous heavy machinery in construction, mining, and agriculture.

$180,000–$210,000

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RedhorseProduction engineering

Full Stack Software Engineer

Arlington, VAOn-site

Full Stack Software Engineer supporting a Department of Defense AI transformation effort across engineering, mission operations, and executive workstreams.

Pay range unavailable

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Backend Software Engineer - Codex for Finance

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Backend engineer on OpenAI's small, entrepreneurial Financial Services vertical team, building data systems, agentic workflows, and enterprise integrations that power AI-native financial workflows across ChatGPT Work and Codex.

$347,000–$385,000

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TatariProduction engineering

Senior Solutions Engineer

Los Angeles, CAHybrid

Senior Solutions Engineer owning complex B2B client integrations end-to-end at an AI-powered TV/CTV advertising platform.

$140,000–$170,000 · total compensation

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phDataProduction engineering

Principal Applied AI Solutions Architect

USRemote

Principal Solutions Architect leading end-to-end architecture, deployment, and lifecycle management of production AI/ML and data solutions for strategic enterprise clients.

Pay range unavailable

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PerceptaProduction engineering

Founding Applied AI Engineer - Data

New York, NYOn-site

Founding member of Percepta's data team, spanning data engineering, data science, and ML engineering to turn messy enterprise data into AI-ready assets inside customer environments.

$150,000–$400,000

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BasetenProduction engineering

AI Inference Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer who partners directly with customers to architect, build, and deploy high-scale production AI applications on Baseten’s platform.

$165,000–$330,000

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TatariProduction engineering

Senior Solutions Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior Solutions Engineer at Tatari, an AI-powered TV/CTV advertising platform, owning complex B2B client integrations end-to-end, mentoring junior engineers, and shaping the technical direction of the solutions practice.

$140,000–$170,000 · total compensation

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phDataProduction engineering

Applied AI Solutions Architect

USRemote

Design and guide production-ready Applied AI architectures for enterprise clients, spanning predictive ML, MLOps, generative AI, LLM applications, agentic workflows, and intelligent automation.

Pay range unavailable

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Scale AIProduction engineering

Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYOn-site

Frontier Agent Engineers design, evaluate, and deploy production AI agents for enterprise customers, combining frontier models with retrieval, memory, structured knowledge, traditional ML, and enterprise software.

$180,000–$225,000

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AndurilProduction engineering

Senior Ground Software Engineer, Space

Chantilly, VA

Senior Ground Software Engineer owning the architecture, deployment, and evolution of Space Command and Control and mission-management software for DoD and IC customers.

$191,000–$253,000

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StripeProduction engineering

Integration Engineer, Professional Services

Seattle, WA · San Francisco, CA · +1 more

Integration Engineer on Stripe’s new Forward Deployed Engineering team within Professional Services, building scalable Stripe integrations, standalone applications, and priority ecosystem features for strategic users.

Pay range unavailable

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StripeProduction engineering

Integration Engineer, Professional Services

US · city not listed

Integration Engineer on Stripe’s new Forward Deployed Engineering team within Professional Services, building scalable integrations, standalone applications, and priority features for strategic users.

Pay range unavailable

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Scale AIProduction engineering

Senior Mission Software Engineer, Public Sector

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

Senior mission software engineer embedded with U.S. government customers, including military and Intelligence Community organizations, to take AI applications from prototype through production.

$186,000–$279,000

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Early Access Deployment Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

This role leads technical engagements with strategic customers during the earliest alpha stages of frontier AI capabilities, translating ambiguous model capabilities into scoped use cases and working prototypes.

$250,000–$330,000

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Neo4jProduction engineering

Senior AI Solutions Architect

USRemote

Senior AI Solutions Architect in Neo4j’s Sales Engineering organization, leading strategic customer engagements that turn graph databases, knowledge graphs, LLMs, and generative-AI frameworks into production enterprise applications.

$200,000–$265,000

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