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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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NooksProduction engineering

Senior Software Engineer, Agent Studio

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior Software Engineer building AI agents that automate 90% of SDR non-calling work, with GM-level ownership of customer revenue outcomes.

$215,000–$300,000

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MercorProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Enterprise Applied AI

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYOn-site

Build and deploy production software for Mercor's Enterprise team, embedding with customers to translate ambiguous business needs into integrations, workflows, and scalable AI-powered systems.

$145,000–$285,000

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PeregrineProduction engineering

Deployment Strategist

San Francisco, CA

The Deployment Strategist owns enterprise product deployment and customer impact delivery for government and other mission-critical customers.

$120,000–$190,000

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WindBorne SystemsProduction engineering

Lead Software Engineer - Gov Platforms

Redwood City, CARemote

WindBorne Systems is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own government implementations across multiple software platforms, acting as the technical bridge between core technology and government customers.

$150,000–$220,000

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TransluceProduction engineering

AI Behavior Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Transluce seeks an AI Behavior Engineer to design and run behavioral evaluations of frontier AI systems, working directly with policymakers, civil society, and frontier labs.

$310,000–$500,000

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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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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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EudiaProduction engineering

Member of Technical Staff

Palo Alto, CA

This role is a customer-facing AI/ML engineering position responsible for deploying, integrating, and optimizing secure, enterprise-grade solutions for Fortune 500 legal and risk teams.

$180,000–$210,000

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NVIDIAProduction engineering

Solutions Architect, AI Models

Santa Clara, CA

NVIDIA seeks a Solutions Architect for the AI Software Segment SA team to drive enterprise adoption of NVIDIA AI models and libraries.

$152,000–$241,500

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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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MercorProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Applied AI

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Software Engineer on Mercor’s Applied AI team building and operating production systems between frontier AI research and data delivery.

$160,000–$500,000

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depthfirstProduction engineering

Security Product Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

This Security Product Engineer role is the technical bridge between depthfirst's AI security agents and enterprise customers.

Pay range unavailable

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ServalProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Deployed

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Customer-facing software engineer on Serval’s Agent Deployment team, shipping production-grade systems, platform services, integrations, and reusable workflow capabilities for complex enterprise customers.

$200,000–$325,000

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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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SiftProduction engineering

Application Software Engineer

Marina Del Rey, CA · San Francisco, CAHybrid

Application Software Engineer working at the intersection of Sift’s high-frequency telemetry platform and complex customer engineering challenges.

$125,000–$175,000

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SierraProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Agent - Healthcare

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Build and operate production AI agents for healthcare payers, providers, and healthcare platforms, covering benefits, billing, scheduling, intake, and patient access.

$180,000–$390,000

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LMArenaProduction engineering

Product Solutions Engineer

SF Bay AreaHybrid

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

$150,000–$250,000

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Latent LabsProduction engineering

Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI

San Francisco, CAHybrid

This role bridges frontier generative models and pharma/biotech customers, requiring deep ML expertise to deploy, adapt, and optimise models in production environments.

Pay range unavailable

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FactoryProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Deployed

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Software Engineer, Deployed leads end-to-end implementation of Factory’s AI platform in customer engineering environments, reporting directly to the CEO and serving as the primary technical lead for high-impact engagements.

Pay range unavailable

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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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CartesiaProduction engineering

Enterprise Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

The Enterprise Engineer builds and owns production-grade infrastructure for agentic voice AI deployments in demanding enterprise environments, including customer-managed and on-premises systems.

$180,000–$250,000

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NooksProduction engineering

Senior Software Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior Software Engineer to build AI agents for the Agent Studio product, automating 90% of SDR non-calling work.

$215,000–$300,000

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TavusProduction engineering

Customer Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

The Customer Engineer splits time between hands-on customer integration support and building SDKs, prototypes, sample apps, and platform enhancements.

Pay range unavailable

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Applied ComputeProduction engineering

Applied Research Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Applied Research Engineers own enterprise customer engagements end-to-end, from understanding proprietary data and workflows through training, deploying, and improving AI agents.

$200,000–$320,000

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Cognition AIProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Applied AI Engineer responsible for deploying Cognition’s Devin across enterprise engineering organizations, embedding with teams to implement agentic workflows, drive adoption, and quantify productivity impact.

$180,000–$225,000

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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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Eloquent AIProduction engineering

AI Engineer, Agent

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Build, deploy, and optimize enterprise-grade AI agents for high-stakes financial workflows at a seed-stage startup.

Pay range unavailable

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Brain Co.Production engineering

Machine Learning Engineer, Applied AI

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Build and own applied ML systems end-to-end, taking ambiguous institutional problems from data and evaluation design through reliable production deployment.

Pay range unavailable

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UncountableProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Implementations

New York, NY · San Francisco, CARemote

Build production-grade integrations between Uncountable's platform and the instruments, systems, and data workflows used by enterprise R&D labs.

$90,000–$110,000

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