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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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Fireworks AIProduction engineering

Applied Machine Learning Engineer

San Mateo, CAHybrid

This hands-on Applied Machine Learning Engineer role bridges AI research and customer-facing application delivery, covering model development, fine-tuning, deployment, and platform engineering.

$170,000–$240,000

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SierraProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Agent

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Build and operate production-grade AI agents for enterprise customers across finance, healthcare, commerce, telecommunications, and media.

$180,000–$390,000

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Brain Co.Production engineering

AI Product Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

This AI Product Engineer role involves building and deploying AI-powered software solutions for governments and large enterprises, working directly with customers to develop product specs from scratch.

Pay range unavailable

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CloudflareDeployment team leadership

Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

Austin, TX · New York, NY · +1 moreHybrid

Leads Cloudflare’s Forward Deployed Engineering function within the Developer GTM organization, managing Solution Architects who support strategic customer opportunities and drive developer-platform pipeline and revenue.

$234,000–$310,000

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IntercomDeployment strategy

Senior Forward Deployed Product Manager

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed Product Manager owning outcomes for strategic enterprise customers deploying Fin, from evaluation and solution design through configuration, launch, and expansion.

$199,800–$222,000

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Goodfire AIImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Research Scientist

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward-deployed research scientist applying mechanistic interpretability techniques directly with customers to investigate advanced models and solve novel, high-stakes problems.

$220,000–$315,000

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AntithesisImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer

Washington, DC · San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer at Antithesis, embedding with customers to get their systems running on the deterministic-simulation testing platform, then feeding insights back into product development.

SG$150,000–SG$225,000

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AltaraDeployment strategy

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Altara is a seed-stage AI startup building a scientific intelligence platform for physical-world industries (semiconductors, batteries, advanced materials, aerospace).

Pay range unavailable

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GoogleInternal deployment & tooling

Forward Deployed Engineer, Core, DevAI

San Jose, CA

This role is a Forward Deployed Engineer on Google's DevAI team, acting as the technical bridge between Antigravity AI infrastructure and Google product areas.

$207,000–$300,000

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SitrepsDeployment strategy

Senior Forward Deployed Strategist, Public Sector

Washington, DC · San Francisco, CAOn-site

Senior Forward Deployed Strategist for a venture-backed AI security company, helping public sector customers operationalize AI evaluation, guardrail, and agent governance platforms in mission-critical environments.

$147,000–$185,000

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EvolverImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer

Palo Alto, CA

Forward-deployed engineer at an AI startup, working hands-on with enterprise customers to deploy, integrate, and operationalize a generative AI platform in complex environments.

Pay range unavailable

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NotionDeployment strategy

Forward Deployed Architect

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

Forward Deployed Architect on Notion's Services team, leading customer engagements to design and deploy AI-native workflows on the Notion platform.

$165,000–$205,000 · OTE

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GoogleImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer, Geo Auto

Mountain View, CA · Seattle, WA

This role is a forward-deployed technical consultant for Google's Geo Auto products, working directly with automotive partners to integrate Google Maps and SDKs into vehicle platforms.

$152,000–$221,000

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GreptileTechnical pre-sales

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer partnering with sales and customers to tailor Greptile across complex software stacks, lead technical pilots, and unblock security and procurement.

$140,000–$220,000

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Pure StorageImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineering, Portworx

Chicago, IL · New York, NY · +1 moreOn-site

Forward-deployed engineering role for Portworx focused on designing and validating high-stakes Kubernetes storage deployments in complex customer data centers.

$208,000–$305,000

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InstrumentalImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Manufacturing Engineer

Palo Alto, CAOn-site

This is a field engineering role embedded at customer factory sites, primarily in North America, to drive manufacturing improvements using Instrumental's Solve platform.

$140,000–$200,000

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DossDeployment strategy

Lead Forward Deployed Product Manager (NYC)

New York, NY

Lead end-to-end post-sales ERP implementations for 1–2 upper-mid-market or enterprise customers, spanning discovery, process design, configuration, integrations, UAT, training, and go-live.

$180,000–$210,000

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ReevoImplementation & delivery

Builder - Forward Deployed Generalist

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Generalist owns end-to-end customer deployments of Reevo's AI-native revenue platform, from signed deal to a revenue team running daily on the product.

Pay range unavailable

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ArtisanDeployment strategy

Forward Deployed GTM Architect

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYOn-site

Own the end-to-end deployment and ongoing performance of an autonomous outbound GTM system for Artisan's largest enterprise customers.

$130,000–$180,000

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DossImplementation & delivery

Senior Forward Deployed Product Manager (NYC)

New York, NY

Own end-to-end ERP implementations for upper mid-market and enterprise customers, translating complex operational and financial workflows into data models, configurations, integrations, and new product capabilities.

$150,000–$180,000

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flexportDeployment strategy

Forward Deployed Consultant- Supply Chain Solutions

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Consultant embedded with enterprise retailers, manufacturers, and brands to audit complex logistics networks, quantify cost and inventory opportunities, and deploy supply chain optimization solutions.

$174,000–$213,000

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AKASAImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineers deliver and stabilize client deployments of ML models for healthcare revenue cycle products, partnering across client engagement, product, and R&D.

$150,000–$170,000

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IntercomImplementation & delivery

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer partnering with strategic customers to deploy and scale Fin, Intercom’s AI customer service agent, while translating complex customer needs into product and roadmap improvements.

$215,000–$237,000

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QuadricTechnical pre-sales

Forward Deployed Engineer

Burlingame, CARemote

Forward Deployed Engineer owning the technical path from customer evaluation to design win for Quadric's Chimera GPNPU, a novel unified architecture for neural network, DSP, and control code.

Pay range unavailable

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LiberateImplementation & delivery

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Boston, MA · San Francisco, CAHybrid

Liberate is hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge product and customer needs, ensuring successful deployment and integration of AI-driven insurance solutions.

$120,000–$180,000

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Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL)Internal deployment & tooling

Forward Deployed Engineer

Chicago, IL · San Francisco, CAOn-site

This is a high-impact, rapid-prototyping engineering role embedded with product and engineering teams to solve complex data and AI problems.

$280,000–$300,000

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snaplogicImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CARemote

Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for the full deployment lifecycle of SnapLogic’s agentic AI platform across strategic enterprise accounts, from discovery and architecture through technical rollout, executive adoption, and expansion.

Pay range unavailable

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SendbirdDeployment strategy

Forward Deployed Product Manager

San Mateo, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed PM owning the full pilot-to-production lifecycle for Delight.ai's enterprise AI agent platform, embedding with customers to deploy and iterate, then translating field insights into product direction.

$140,000–$175,000

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ZipImplementation & delivery

AI Forward Deployed Engineer - SAP Ariba

San Francisco, CAHybrid

An AI Forward Deployed Engineer who embeds inside strategic enterprise accounts to build custom AI agent solutions using Zip's AppStudio and AI infrastructure, owning end-to-end delivery across procurement, finance, legal, and risk workflows.

$130,000–$170,000 · OTE

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