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FDE and deployment jobs at later-stage private companies

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AndurilProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Discovery

Seattle, WA · Washington, DC

Software Engineer on Anduril’s Discovery team, building and deploying Lattice OS capabilities for cyber command and control, offensive cyber missions, networking, and remote asset management in far-edge environments.

$166,000–$220,000

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AnthropicProduction engineering

Staff+ Software Engineer, Public Sector

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

Staff-level engineer building and scaling Claude products for U.S. government and allied-democracy customers across regulated and constrained environments.

$405,000–$485,000

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addeparProduction engineering

Field Engineer

New York, NY

Field Engineer embeds with clients to architect and deliver production-grade integrations, automations, data pipelines, and AI-driven solutions.

$119,000–$149,000

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Data IntellectProduction engineering

Field Engineer. AI Solutions.

New York, NY

Field Solutions Engineer responsible for building scalable workflows, connectors, APIs, and data pipelines for enterprise clients of an AI-driven automation platform.

Pay range unavailable

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AndurilProduction engineering

Senior Software Engineer, Warfighter Systems

Bellevue, WA

Senior Software Engineer owning a tactical-edge client across Android mobile and Linux-based in-vehicle systems, with responsibility for high-performance software on constrained hardware.

$166,000–$253,000

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Snorkel AIProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer - Enterprise Solutions

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · US remoteRemote

Applied AI Engineer delivering customer-facing generative AI and machine learning solutions from use-case scoping through deployment, while translating repeatable challenges into reusable Snorkel tooling and workflows.

$175,000–$300,000

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Data IntellectProduction engineering

Senior kdb+ Architect (Greenfield Project)

New York, NY

Lead a greenfield kdb+ platform build for a top-tier investment banking client in New York, with end-to-end ownership of real-time and historical market data ingestion, high-performance analytics, and downstream visualization.

Pay range unavailable

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer, Cyber, Government

Washington, DCOn-site

Applied AI Engineer embedded with government and national security customers, building secure AI-powered cyber capabilities from discovery and prototyping through evaluation and operational deployment.

$211,000–$302,000

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AnthropicProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise Tech

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

Applied AI Engineer serving as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise technology customers adopting the Claude API in production.

$200,000–$320,000

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer, Startups

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

Applied AI Engineer partnering with strategic startups to take novel generative AI applications from ideation through production and scale on OpenAI’s API.

$211,000–$278,000

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PerceptaProduction engineering

Embedded Research Scientist

New York, NYOn-site

Embedded Research Scientists advance frontier AI research directly within customer environments, translating research in LLM post-training, reinforcement learning, agentic modeling, and specialized architectures into production systems.

$180,000–$400,000

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Scale AIProduction engineering

Field Engineer, Data Engine

Colorado Springs, CO · Omaha, NE · +2 more

This forward-deployed AI data engineering role supports government customers by designing onsite solutions, integrating customer systems with Scale’s platform, and deploying software in secured environments.

$140,000–$290,000

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AndurilProduction engineering

Ground Software Engineer, Space

Washington, DC

Mission Software Engineer responsible for architecting and deploying Space C2 and mission-management software supporting DoD and Intelligence Community space operations.

$166,000–$220,000

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ParloaProduction engineering

Lead Agent Architect

New York, NY

Lead the design and deployment of production-grade AI agent solutions for enterprise customer service, spanning conversational architecture, LLM behavior, integrations, and optimization.

$196,000–$223,000

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Field AIProduction engineering

Senior Autonomy Engineer - Federal

Irvine, CAOn-site

Senior Autonomy Engineer for the Federal team at Field AI, responsible for end-to-end deployment, integration, and field performance of wheeled autonomous robots in demanding customer environments.

Pay range unavailable

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AndurilProduction engineering

Senior Ground Software Engineer, Space

Costa Mesa, CA

Own the architecture, development, and deployment of Space Command and Control and mission-management software supporting DoD and IC space operations.

$191,000–$253,000

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GoviniProduction engineering

Software Engineer

Pittsburgh, PAOn-site

Software Engineer on a Pittsburgh-based engineering team building and deploying software and data solutions for clients in highly regulated environments.

Pay range unavailable

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Scale AIProduction engineering

Senior Software Engineer, Public Sector

San Francisco, CA · Saint Louis, MO · +2 moreOn-site

Senior engineer leading end-to-end development of scalable backend and distributed systems for federal customers, including deployment on classified networks.

$162,400–$311,000

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AndurilProduction engineering

Senior Ground Software Engineer, Space

Washington, DC

Senior software engineer owning the architecture, development, and deployment of Space Command and Control and mission-management capabilities for DoD and IC customers.

$191,000–$253,000

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Full Stack Software Engineer, Gov

Washington, DC · San Francisco, CA · +1 moreHybrid

Build and deploy full-stack ChatGPT and OpenAI API capabilities for public sector customers across on-premises and cloud environments.

$207,000–$385,000

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DecagonProduction engineering

Senior Software Engineer, Agent Product

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Senior software engineer on Decagon’s Agent Product Engineering team, owning the end-to-end design, deployment, and iteration of AI agents that support millions of users and enterprise customers.

$200,000–$400,000

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PerceptaProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer

New York, NYOn-site

Applied AI Engineers work directly with customer executives, operators, and technical teams to define AI transformation roadmaps and ship production-grade agents and workflows.

$150,000–$400,000

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DecagonProduction engineering

Field Engineer

New York, NYOn-site

Field Engineer owning technical scoping, feasibility, integration, and production implementation for Decagon’s most complex enterprise opportunities.

$240,000–$280,000

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DecagonProduction engineering

Agent Deployment Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Own end-to-end technical delivery of enterprise AI agent deployments, from architecture and integrations through evaluation and production launch.

$175,000–$230,000

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AndurilProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Connected Warfare (Active Clearance)

Seattle, WA

Software Engineer on Anduril’s Connected Warfare Mission Command team, owning customer-deployed software for tactical-edge platforms spanning mesh networking, data interfaces, distributed systems, autonomy, and systems integration.

$166,000–$253,000

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