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Senior FDE and deployment jobs in Chicago

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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VennProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Chicago, IL

Forward Deployed Engineers embed with enterprise clients as AI transformation partners, identifying high-value operational problems across operations, marketing, and finance and shipping solutions on top of Venn’s platform and client data.

$200,000–$400,000

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Wolters KluwerProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer - Healthcare Transformation

New York, NY · Madison, WI · +8 more

Forward Deployed Engineer embedded in Wolters Kluwer Health's product organization, working with strategic customers to discover high-value problems, build working solutions, and turn repeatable patterns into scalable platform capabilities.

$215,100–$384,400

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AccentureProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer Manager

Chicago, IL · Milwaukee, WI · +38 more

Forward Deployed Engineer Manager at Accenture: a customer-embedded engineering role designing, prototyping, deploying, and scaling production-grade AI solutions on platforms like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, SAP, and ServiceNow.

$80,400–$316,300

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DatabricksProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

Chicago, IL

Databricks seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with enterprise customers, owning architecture and delivering production-grade data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

$182,000–$250,208

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AccentureProduction engineering

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Chicago, IL · Milwaukee, WI · +38 more

Forward-deployed AI engineer role at Accenture, embedded with enterprise clients to design, prototype, and scale production-grade AI workflows using LLMs and enterprise platforms.

$112,900–$366,300

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project44Production engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Chicago, ILHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with high-value logistics service provider (LSP) accounts, owning integration architecture and customizing agent workflows.

$130,000–$190,000

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C3.aiProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (Chicago)

Chicago, IL

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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AccentureProduction engineering

Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer

Chicago, IL · Milwaukee, WI · +39 more

Forward Deployed Engineer role within Accenture's Palantir Business Group, deploying Palantir Foundry/AIP solutions for government, healthcare, energy, financial services, and manufacturing clients.

$54,400–$235,100

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AvePointProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer - AI

Chicago, IL

The Forward Deployed Engineer (AI) embeds with enterprise clients to advise on AI trust, governance, security, and compliance while scoping and building production AI solutions.

$180,000–$230,000

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AccentureProduction engineering

Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer -Assoc Director

Chicago, IL · Milwaukee, WI · +39 more

Forward Deployed Engineer role within Accenture's Palantir Business Group, deploying Palantir Foundry/AIP solutions for government, healthcare, energy, financial services, and manufacturing clients.

$138,800–$434,000

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FleetWorksProduction engineering

Senior Software Engineer - Forward Deployed

Chicago, ILOn-site

FleetWorks is hiring its first forward-deployed engineer in Chicago to embed with freight broker customers, own end-to-end deployments, and build integrations that make AI voice/text agents work in live operations.

Pay range unavailable

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AccentureProduction engineering

Palantir Forward Deployed Senior Engineer

Chicago, IL · Milwaukee, WI · +39 more

Forward Deployed Senior Engineer within Accenture's Palantir Business Group, deploying Palantir Foundry/AIP solutions for government, healthcare, energy, financial services, and manufacturing clients.

$80,400–$316,300

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AdobeProduction engineering

Senior AEM Forward Deployed Engineer

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

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HappyRobotProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Chicago, ILHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer combining full-stack development with customer engineering for deployments of HappyRobot’s AI platform.

$120,000–$200,000

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AsanaProduction engineering

Technical Consultant

Chicago, ILHybrid

Technical Consultant supporting strategic enterprise customers with custom Asana integrations, automations, data migrations, and AI-augmented workflows.

$120,000–$136,000

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AccentureProduction engineering

Agentic Identity Security Consultant

Irving, TX · Milwaukee, WI · +39 more

Forward Deployed Engineer role within Accenture Security's Identity and Access Management practice, focused on building agentic identity platforms for enterprises deploying AI agents.

$54,400–$205,800

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BainProduction engineering

Lead, AI Engineering

Atlanta, GA · Austin, TX · +8 moreHybrid

Lead AI Engineer role within Bain's AI, Insights & Solutions (AIS) team, designing and shipping generative AI and agentic systems for enterprise clients.

$179,500–$203,500

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