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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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AppianProduction engineering

Consultant (Technical, Public Sector)

Mclean, VAOn-site

Customer-facing technical consultant delivering Appian-based software and AI solutions for public-sector customers across the full post-sales lifecycle, from process discovery and system design through development, deployment, integration, and client enablement.

$75,000–$175,000

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StripeProduction engineering

Integration Engineer, Professional Services

New York, NY · Seattle, WA · US remoteRemote

Build and deliver secure, scalable Stripe integrations, standalone applications, and priority ecosystem features for strategic users as part of Stripe’s new Forward Deployed Engineering team.

$190,400–$285,600

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LeidosProduction engineering

Application Developer (SWE-2)

Fort Meade, MD

Application Developer supporting an Intel Sector prototype-development program and the Eurasia & Western Hemisphere mission.

$87,100–$157,450

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WriterProduction engineering

AI deployment engineer (UK)

San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +3 moreHybrid

Deployment engineer role at Writer, a generative AI platform company, focused on partnering with enterprise customers to architect and implement AI solutions using Writer's platform and LLMs.

Pay range unavailable

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UltralyticsProduction engineering

Solutions Engineer

New York, NYOn-site

Solutions Engineer responsible for turning complex computer vision problems into production systems built on YOLO, from technical discovery and architecture through proof-of-concepts, deployment, and customer outcomes.

Pay range unavailable

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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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WriterProduction engineering

AI deployment engineer (East)

San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +3 moreHybrid

Writer is hiring a hybrid AI Deployment Engineer to partner with Fortune 500 enterprise customers, architecting and delivering custom AI solutions on Writer's platform (LLMs, APIs, Knowledge Graph).

$146,400–$185,000

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STRProduction engineering

Lead Mission Engineer - Full Stack

San Diego, CA · Denver, CO · +2 more

Lead full-stack mission engineering for the Mission Applications Group, developing and deploying secure software systems that support real-world Department of Defense and Intelligence Community missions.

$175,000–$240,000

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LeidosProduction engineering

Senior AI Engineer (SWE-3)

Linthicum Heights, MD

Senior AI Engineer role within Leidos' Intel Sector, supporting an AI and Emerging Technologies mission.

$107,900–$195,050

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WriterProduction engineering

AI deployment engineer (Central)

San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +3 moreHybrid

Deployment engineer role partnering with Fortune 500 enterprise customers to architect and implement AI solutions on Writer's platform.

$131,800–$166,000

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STRProduction engineering

Lead Mission Engineer - Full Stack

Denver, CO · San Diego, CA · +2 more

Lead full-stack mission engineering teams that build, integrate, deploy, and field-test software for real-world Department of Defense and Intelligence Community missions.

$175,000–$240,000

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NVIDIAProduction engineering

NCX Senior Engineer

Santa Clara, CA · Seattle, WA · US remoteRemote

This role is a senior customer-facing engineer on NVIDIA's AI Accelerator team, responsible for deploying and optimizing AI workloads on NVIDIA Cloud Platforms (NCP, Neo, DGX Cloud) for strategic partners.

$184,000–$356,500

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Scale AIProduction engineering

Field Engineer, Public Sector

Austin, TX · Colorado Springs, CO · +3 more

Field Engineer supporting federal AI projects, working directly with public-sector customers to build production-grade data pipelines and integrations.

$150,400–$226,550

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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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WillowTreeProduction engineering

Senior Amazon Connect Application Architect

USRemote

Senior Amazon Connect Application Architect role combining solution architecture with hands-on engineering to design, build, and deploy complex Amazon Connect and AWS contact center solutions.

$152,618–$179,550

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer, Agent Enablement

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Applied AI Engineer building and operating secure agent-enablement integrations for strategic partners across web applications, connectors, APIs, CLIs, MCP servers, and developer tools.

$197,000–$280,000

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AppianProduction engineering

Principal Consultant

Mclean, VAOn-site

Principal Consultant leading post-sale delivery of Appian software and AI solutions for commercial customers, from process discovery and requirements through implementation, integration, deployment, and client enablement.

$100,000–$225,000

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AndurilProduction engineering

Senior Software Engineer, Discovery

Seattle, WA

Senior software engineer on Anduril’s Discovery team, building software-defined capabilities across cyber command and control, offensive cyber missions, networking, autonomy, and remote asset management in far-edge environments.

$191,000–$253,000

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NVIDIAProduction engineering

Senior Solutions Architect, Agentic AI

Santa Clara, CA · US remoteRemote

Senior Solutions Architect driving production-grade Agentic AI adoption at leading Enterprise ISVs on NVIDIA's accelerated computing platform.

$184,000–$287,500

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AppianProduction engineering

Senior Consultant

Madison, WI

Senior Consultant in Appian Customer Success delivers post-sale software and AI implementations for commercial clients, owning the lifecycle from process discovery and requirements through development, integrations, production launch, and adoption.

$100,000–$200,000

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AndurilProduction engineering

Senior Software Engineer, Discovery

Washington, DC

Senior software engineer on Anduril’s Discovery team, incubating and maturing AI-native systems across cyber, networking, autonomy, robotics, and systems integration.

$191,000–$253,000

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NVIDIAProduction engineering

Engagement Tech Lead, Agentic AI

Santa Clara, CA · US remoteRemote

NVIDIA seeks an Engagement Tech Lead to drive integration of Generative and Agentic AI software with top Enterprise ISV partners.

$224,000–$431,250

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AppianProduction engineering

Senior Consultant (Public Sector)

Denver, CO

Senior Consultant in Appian Customer Success delivering post-sales software and AI implementations on the Appian platform for public-sector customers.

$100,000–$200,000

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SambaNova SystemsProduction engineering

Forward Deployment Engineer

USRemote

Forward Deploy Engineers embed with strategic enterprise customers to design, deploy, and optimize production generative AI applications on SambaNova's SN40L and SambaStack platforms.

$138,000–$170,000

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Booz AllenProduction engineering

Palantir Mission Integration Lead

Fayetteville, NC · Fort Belvoir, VA · +3 more

Lead full lifecycle software development within Palantir Foundry for U.S. government clients, combining hands-on engineering with team mentorship and stakeholder collaboration.

$99,000–$225,000

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer, Plugins

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Applied AI Engineer responsible for taking strategic B2B plugins from concept through architecture, implementation, evaluation, launch, and ongoing maintenance across ChatGPT and Codex.

$197,000–$280,000

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AppianProduction engineering

Senior Consultant (Public Sector)

Atlanta, GA

Senior Consultant in Appian Customer Success delivering post-sales software and AI implementations on the Appian platform for public-sector customers.

$100,000–$200,000

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RillaProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Integrations

New York, NYOn-site

This forward-deployed engineering role owns end-to-end customer integration projects, from understanding executive workflows and data models to wrangling large-scale data and building integrations or full-stack features.

$200,000–$230,000

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Hubs.isProduction engineering

AI Solutions Architect

US · city not listedHybrid

Hands-on AI Solutions Architect for an early-stage Forward Deployed team at Hubs, building end-to-end AI solutions on the Hubs platform for design-partner organizations.

Pay range unavailable

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