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Senior FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area

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

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Analog DevicesProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Jose, CA · Boston, MA

A hybrid software engineer and technical consultant who embeds within strategic customers to implement, customize, and scale ADI's AI and edge technology into real-world infrastructure.

$230,000–$316,250

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BasetenProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (Training)

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineers own technical outcomes for major AI customers, acting as the technical lead across model inference, post-training, deployment, and production operations.

$200,000–$400,000

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AnthropicProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

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

Forward Deployed Engineers embed with strategic enterprise customers to build and deploy production applications using Claude models, combining software engineering, LLM expertise, and customer-facing discovery.

$280,000–$320,000

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - SF

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Own end-to-end technical deployment of OpenAI models within healthcare organizations (payers, providers, health systems, health tech), from discovery through productionization and handoff.

$185,000–$300,000

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MonacoProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer on Monaco's Delta Force team, embedding with strategic customers to own ambiguous, high-stakes problems end-to-end—from discovery to live adoption.

$200,000–$400,000

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VoltaiProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · Atherton, CA · +1 moreHybrid

Voltai is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to deliver its AI platform for semiconductor and consumer electronics companies, owning customer deployments across the SF Bay Area and porting cloud features to on-prem environments.

Pay range unavailable

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SiftProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · Marina Del Rey, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer at Sift, bridging the company's telemetry platform with customer engineering teams in aerospace, defense, and autonomous systems.

$125,000–$175,000

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Luma AIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Redwood City, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer at Luma AI: embed with customers, define problems, and build production systems on Luma's APIs and models.

$168,000–$252,000

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BackOps.aiProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Forward Deployed Engineer at BackOps AI, a supply-chain AI startup, to deploy adaptive AI agents into customer environments.

Pay range unavailable

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NeticProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Intern - 2026-2027

San Francisco, CAOn-site

This 12-week Forward Deployed Engineer internship involves building and deploying multimodal AI agents for essential-service businesses, working directly with enterprise customers to improve revenue and operations.

Pay range unavailable

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KognitosProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

USRemote

This Forward Deployed Engineer role sits at the intersection of engineering and customer success, embedding directly with enterprise customers to design, build, and ship automations on the Kognitos neurosymbolic AI platform.

Pay range unavailable

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AfreshProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer who alternates between embedding with enterprise grocery customers and building the reusable platform behind those deployments.

$156,060–$211,140

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HadrianProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Torrance, CA · San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer at Hadrian embeds on enterprise customer programs to drive them end-to-end, configuring and integrating the Opus platform and building net-new software at the edge.

$120,000–$300,000

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NeticProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - New Grad - 2026-2027

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineers build and deploy multimodal AI agents that automate complex operations for essential-service companies, working directly with enterprise customers from design through rollout and iteration.

Pay range unavailable

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PostmanProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Backend)

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer building and operating production-grade backend and distributed systems for enterprise customers, including deployments in environments Postman does not control.

$220,000–$240,000

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P-1 AIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Mateo, CARemote

P-1 AI is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to serve as the technical lead for customer deployments of Archie, an AI engineer agent for physical-world design.

$170,000–$220,000

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AdobeProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Jose, CA

Senior Field Engineer embedded with Adobe's most strategic enterprise customers, operating inside autonomous cross-functional Customer Pods.

$159,200–$301,600

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Arize AIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed AI Engineer, West

San Francisco, CARemote

Forward-deployed, client-facing AI engineer partnering with enterprise teams to build and scale production GenAI observability and evaluation programs.

$155,000–$190,000

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OpenAI Deployment CompanyProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer - US

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer serving as a technical lead for high-stakes enterprise AI deployments, owning customer and business outcomes from problem definition through production.

$170,000–$400,000

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C3.aiProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (Redwood City)

Redwood City, CA

Forward Deployed Engineer at C3 AI, building full-stack AI-driven enterprise applications on the C3 AI Platform, working directly with customers to design, develop, and deploy production applications, demos, and proofs-of-technology.

$120,000–$158,000

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Periodic LabsProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, Physics & Simulation

Menlo Park, CA · San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward deploy physics and simulation workflows for advanced-manufacturing customer engagements, working on-site with customer engineering teams and collaborating with internal modeling and ML teams.

$200,000–$275,000

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BobyardProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with strategic general-contractor customers, owning end-to-end solutions from discovery and prototyping through deployment, monitoring, and scale.

$130,000–$165,000

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H CompanyProduction engineering

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer - US

San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +1 moreHybrid

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for identifying high-impact customer workflows, integrating agentic AI solutions with customer systems, and delivering production-grade services.

Pay range unavailable

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C3.aiProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, Federal

Redwood City, CA · Tysons, VA

Forward Deployed Engineer on C3 AI's Federal team, building full-stack AI applications on the C3 AI Platform for U.S. federal customers.

$120,000–$158,000

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AdobeProduction engineering

Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, Creative AI

San Jose, CA · New York, NY

Lead Forward Deployed Creative Technologist at Adobe, embedding with enterprise customers to build custom AI-powered creative workflows on top of Firefly Services and Workflow Builder.

$159,200–$301,600

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