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.
FDE roles first · Newer within each type
Avathon (formerly SparkCognition)Production engineering
Pleasanton, CAOn-site
Forward Deployed AI Engineer at Avathon, the physical AI unicorn, deploying production-grade AI applications directly with customers in heavy industries like energy, mining, and logistics.
$130,000–$180,000
View job →Scale AIProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY
Frontier Agent Engineers architect, deploy, and operate production AI systems directly with strategic enterprise customers.
$180,000–$225,000
View job →Handshake (AI training)Production engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Forward Deployed Engineers embed with enterprise customers to understand their workflows and build production-grade AI agents that improve measurable business outcomes.
$157,000–$175,000
View job →SieveProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
This forward-deployed engineering role partners directly with frontier AI labs to translate ambiguous data requirements into production systems for finding, generating, filtering, transforming, evaluating, and packaging high-quality video datasets at scale.
$150,000–$350,000
View job →OpenAIProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Senior individual contributor serving as the physical design subject-matter expert for customer deployments with leading semiconductor companies.
$260,000–$302,000
View job →Scale AIProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 more
Senior forward-deployed engineer responsible for architecting, integrating, deploying, and operating production AI agents for strategic enterprise customers.
$216,000–$270,000
View job →FurtherAIProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Build enterprise-grade AI agents for insurance customers, translating customer workflows into robust production solutions.
$140,000–$225,000
View job →AI FundProduction engineering
SF Bay AreaHybrid
Ayama, an AI startup partnered with AI Fund and a Fortune 500 energy leader, seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to be the technical face at customer sites.
Pay range unavailable
View job →CollateProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Join the founding team of Collate's Forward Deployed Engineering group, partnering with Fortune 100 life sciences companies to deploy production AI systems for document and regulatory workflows.
$150,000–$300,000
View job →MiddeskProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for leading the architecture, deployment, and operation of complex customer-facing integrations and AI-driven systems.
$148,000–$255,000
View job →Handshake (AI training)Production engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Forward-deployed engineers embed with enterprise customers to understand their workflows and build production-grade AI agents that measurably improve operations.
$155,000–$300,000
View job →AI FundProduction engineering
Mountain View, CAOn-site
Forward Deployed AI Engineer embedded with enterprise clients to identify AI opportunities, redesign workflows, and implement AI-powered solutions.
Pay range unavailable
View job →AmplitudeProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA
This role is a customer-facing engineering position on the Forward Deployed Engineering team at Amplitude, owning end-to-end technical delivery for enterprise implementations.
Pay range unavailable
View job →AdobeProduction engineering
San Jose, CA · Austin, TX · +3 more
Senior AEM Forward Deployed Engineer on the AEM Co-Innovation Engineering (ACE) team, responsible for evolving Adobe Experience Manager through customer collaboration, AI-first experimentation, and hands-on development of core product features.
$159,200–$301,600
View job →NeticProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Build and deploy multimodal AI agents that autonomously handle complex operations for essential-service businesses.
Pay range unavailable
View job →BCGProduction engineering
Boston, MA · New York, NY · +9 moreOn-site
BCG X is hiring a (Senior) Forward Deployed AI Engineer to build and deploy next-generation AI solutions for clients across industries, including climate change topics.
$110,000–$190,000
View job →Prime IntellectProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Forward-deployed research engineer serving as the primary technical interface for strategic customers running post-training and agentic RL.
$150,000–$300,000
View job →DatologyAIProduction engineering
San Mateo, CAHybrid
Forward-deployed AI engineer responsible for deploying, operating, and driving adoption of a data-curation platform for strategic customers in complex on-premises and hybrid environments.
$230,000–$300,000
View job →Goodfire AIProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Forward Deploy Engineers own end-to-end technical delivery for strategic customer engagements, integrating Goodfire's interpretability platform into partner environments and model training stacks.
$200,000–$325,000
View job →WarpProduction engineering
New York, NY · San Francisco, CARemote
The Founding Forward Deployed Engineer will own enterprise implementations of Warp's Oz programmable agent platform, from discovery and workflow architecture through production deployment and self-hosted execution.
$200,000–$250,000
View job →CohereProduction engineering
San Francisco, CARemote
Forward Deployed Engineer shaping Cohere’s North AI workspace by translating ambiguous enterprise problems into production-grade, LLM-powered agentic workflows.
CA$175,000–CA$385,000
View job →Scale AIProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid
Forward Deployed Engineers build and deploy customer-specific GenAI data infrastructure end to end, spanning front-end applications, back-end systems, and large-scale architecture.
$179,400–$224,250
View job →PalantirProduction engineering
Palo Alto, CAHybrid
Forward Deployed Software Engineer on a new team building Command and Control (C2) software for autonomous systems (UxVs, sensors, effectors) for operational and tactical missions.
$135,000–$200,000
View job →VercelProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreHybrid
Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer in Professional Services, partnering hands-on with strategic enterprise customers on frontend modernization, large-scale Next.js migrations, performance optimization, and production AI adoption.
$137,000–$207,000
View job →CohereProduction engineering
San Francisco, CARemote
Forward Deployed Engineer building and deploying production-grade agentic workflows for North, Cohere’s enterprise AI workspace.
CA$175,000–CA$385,000
View job →VapiProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid
Forward-deployed engineering role owning enterprise voice AI deployments from scoping through production handoff while also shipping platform improvements.
$200,000–$280,000
View job →DatabricksProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for architecting and delivering production-grade data, AI, and application solutions directly with enterprise customers.
$182,000–$250,208
View job →ElevenLabsProduction engineering
New York, NY · San Francisco, CARemote
This remote-first Forward Deployed Engineer owns end-to-end delivery of high-impact technical projects for strategic customers, from architecture and product-feature design through full-scale integrations.
Pay range unavailable
View job →reflection.aiProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Core member of Reflection's Applied AI team driving model fine-tuning and evaluations for enterprise customers.
Pay range unavailable
View job →ContextProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
This role embeds with Fortune 100 customers to build AI agents that execute complex, high-stakes workflows—not just chat or simple automation.
Pay range unavailable
View job →DatabricksProduction engineering
Mountain View, CA
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for architecting and delivering production-grade data, AI, and application systems directly with enterprise customers.
$182,000–$250,208
View job →Assort HealthProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Forward Deployed Engineers own end-to-end technical deployments of production AI agents for health systems, from scoping and integrations through go-live and optimization.
$155,000–$210,000
View job →HappyRobotProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Forward Deployed Engineer partnering directly with customers from onboarding through ongoing optimization while building full-stack applications and integrations.
$120,000–$220,000
View job →Latent LabsProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAHybrid
This role bridges Latent Labs' frontier generative biology models with pharma/biotech customers, owning the full deployment lifecycle from technical scoping to production-grade delivery.
Pay range unavailable
View job →DatabricksProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA
Customer-embedded Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for architecting and delivering production-grade data, AI, and application systems on the Databricks Platform.
$182,000–$250,208
View job →SnowflakeProduction engineering
Menlo Park, CA
Embed with customers to modernize Spark and data engineering workloads onto Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
$200,000–$287,500
View job →HebbiaProduction engineering
New York, NYOn-site
You will be embedded with Hebbia’s most strategic customers, building custom integrations, workflow automations, and domain-specific solutions on top of the Matrix platform.
$180,000–$300,000
View job →Cursor (Anysphere)Production engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Forward Deployed Engineers embed with customer engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and ship production-grade Cursor workflows, from discovery through post-production support.
Pay range unavailable
View job →Bretton AIProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for deploying and integrating AI agents for banks, fintechs, and payments companies in complex regulated environments.
$150,000–$200,000
View job →RowspaceProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at an early-stage startup serving sophisticated investors.
$150,000–$275,000
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