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Senior FDE and deployment jobs

Compare current US jobs, responsibilities, locations and advertised pay. Includes forward deployed engineering and related deployment roles. Responsibility levels reflect our reading of the work, not just the employer’s title.

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ModalProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer - Systems

New York, NY · San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer partnering with leading AI companies and foundation labs to architect and deploy production infrastructure on Modal's serverless platform.

$180,000–$240,000

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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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PicogridProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

El Segundo, CA · Fort Bragg, NC

Forward Deployed Engineer works at the intersection of product, engineering, and military customers to design and deliver end-to-end capabilities for real missions.

$120,000–$200,000

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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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TitanProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer - Financial Services

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Own end-to-end deployments of Titan's AI platform for financial-services clients, spanning environment discovery, policy mapping, implementation, migration, and ongoing strategic engagement ownership.

$175,000–$250,000

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DryftProduction engineering

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer operating equally across product engineering and customer deployments, turning manufacturing-operations complexity into scalable product features.

Pay range unavailable

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PulseProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer working directly with strategic customers to deploy Pulse in secure VPC and on-prem environments, integrate with enterprise systems, and take solutions into production.

$140,000–$200,000

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Norm AIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NYHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineers lead enterprise implementations of AI-driven compliance solutions, integrating Norm’s platform into customer infrastructure and workflows.

$190,000–$280,000

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Sea12Production engineering

Forward Deployed Software Engineer

New York, NYOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer at Sea12 Technologies, working on-site with enterprise customers in manufacturing, logistics, and construction to apply AI solutions to real-world operational challenges.

Pay range unavailable

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ElizaProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Austin, TXHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer leading client-facing AI projects: scoping, designing, and delivering mission-critical AI solutions while advising clients on technical strategy.

Pay range unavailable

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Exa (formerly Metaphor)Production engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineers own the path from cold outbound through production integration and closed deal, embedding with customer engineering teams to solve technical problems using Exa's API.

$130,000–$275,000

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HappyRobotProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Chicago, ILHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer combining full-stack development with customer engineering for deployments of HappyRobot’s AI platform.

$120,000–$200,000

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Retell AIProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Redwood City, CAOn-site

The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer delivers production voice AI systems for enterprise customers, leading projects from prototype through deployment and integrating Retell with customer tools.

$180,000–$300,000

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ElizaProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY

Forward Deployed Engineer embedding with client teams to design and deliver production-ready AI/ML solutions, from LLM integrations to data pipelines and cloud infrastructure.

Pay range unavailable

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BasetenProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

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

$165,000–$330,000

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ChalkProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NYOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer building bespoke feature pipelines and technical integrations for Chalk customers across healthcare, finance, and recommendation systems.

$170,000–$280,000

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MicrosoftProduction engineering

Data Scientist

US · city not listed

Own end-to-end delivery of strategic data science and AI consulting projects, partnering with customers and internal teams to turn complex business problems into scalable analytics and AI solutions.

$102,100–$219,200

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EYProduction engineering

Cyber - AI Engineer - Manager - Consulting

New York, NYRemote

This manager-level Cyber AI Engineer is a forward-deployed technical leader delivering production AI solutions for client cybersecurity workflows, from prototype through deployment.

$144,900–$302,100

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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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Deloitte USProduction engineering

Finance Analytics & AI Senior Consultant

Multiple US offices

Finance Analytics & AI Senior Consultant designing and delivering finance transformation solutions for planning, forecasting, profitability, close, and consolidation use cases.

Pay range unavailable

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Booz AllenProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer

Fort Meade, MD

Applied AI Engineer building and operating secure, end-to-end AI/ML pipelines for national security mission systems.

$99,000–$225,000

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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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AsanaProduction engineering

Technical Consultant

Chicago, ILHybrid

Technical Consultant responsible for architecting and delivering custom Asana integrations, automations, data migrations, and AI-augmented workflows for enterprise and strategic customers.

$120,000–$136,000

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PA ConsultingProduction engineering

AI Architect | Digital Products & AI

Charlotte, NCHybrid

AI Architect leading the delivery architecture of production digital products, AI agents, intelligent workflows, and modernized platforms for enterprise clients.

Pay range unavailable

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Obin AIProduction engineering

Senior AI Engineer

New York, NY

Build and scale production-grade LLM agents and RAG systems that automate complex credit workflows for regulated financial institutions.

$170,000–$210,000

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Booz AllenProduction engineering

Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer

Arlington, VA · Mclean, VA · +1 more

Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer supporting Booz Allen’s Defense Technology team by translating defense mission problems into Foundry architectures, ontologies, data pipelines, workflows, and decision-support applications.

$77,600–$176,000

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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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LMArenaProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer

SF Bay AreaHybrid

Applied AI Engineer serving as the technical point of contact for 5–15 AI model lab relationships, integrating models, running evaluations, and delivering results.

$150,000–$250,000

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SamsaraProduction engineering

Solutions Integration Engineer III

USRemote

Own enterprise B2B integration projects for Samsara’s strategic customers, spanning requirements, architecture, development, deployment, troubleshooting, and technical enablement.

$87,465–$117,600

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Booz AllenProduction engineering

Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer

Arlington, VA

Forward Deployed Engineer on Booz Allen’s Defense Technology team who designs and delivers Palantir Foundry applications, ontologies, workflows, and production data pipelines for military and other mission stakeholders.

$77,600–$176,000

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SBT GlobalProduction engineering

Sr. AI DevOps Developer

Plano, TXOn-site

Senior AI DevOps role focused on designing, deploying, and supporting enterprise AI agents and Generative AI solutions for consumer electronics and retail clients.

Up to $120,522

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