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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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IntercomProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Data Scientist

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deploy Data Scientists embed with strategic customers to design, implement, and scale enterprise Fin deployments that automate support and deliver measurable outcomes.

$206,600–$229,000

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Retell AIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, New Grad

Redwood City, CAOn-site

Build and launch production voice AI solutions for enterprise customers while splitting time roughly evenly between coding and direct customer work.

$150,000–$250,000

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IntercomProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer working at the intersection of applied AI, customer engineering, and product strategy for Fin’s most strategic customers.

$180,000–$200,000

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Wispr FlowProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineers own customer deployments from discovery through launch and adoption, partnering with engineering, IT, security, and business teams.

$180,000–$350,000

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Applied IntuitionProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Sunnyvale, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Software Engineers own end-to-end delivery of high-stakes customer projects, integrating vehicle intelligence platforms into real-world operational environments.

$130,000–$200,000

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RampProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Forward Deployed

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Ramp, embedded in a customer-facing, agent-first team that solves complex problems for large enterprises.

$189,000–$330,000

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CloudflareProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Cloudflare seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to embed within a strategic global customer, writing production code and shaping architecture on the Cloudflare platform.

$194,000–$266,000

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SitrepsProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector

Washington, DC · San Francisco, CAOn-site

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

$167,000–$203,000

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AMDProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Santa Clara, CAHybrid

This is a forward-deployed AI engineering role at AMD, focused on building and deploying production-grade AI systems for enterprise customers.

Pay range unavailable

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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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DeepgramProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Strategic Accounts

New York, NY · San Francisco, CAOn-site

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer embedding with enterprise restaurant brands and technology partners to own end-to-end technical implementation of Deepgram's voice AI platform, from discovery through go-live and optimization.

$197,000–$246,000

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Apollo ResearchProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (Product)

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Own end-to-end deployment, integration, evaluation, and support for Watcher, a production coding-agent security product monitoring billions of agent tokens per month.

$222,000–$290,000

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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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OpenAIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-SF

New York, NYHybrid

OpenAI is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to build and deploy AI systems for legal work, embedding with law firms and legal teams to identify high-value use cases, prototype solutions, and drive production adoption.

$185,000–$300,000

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AlexProduction engineering

Forward-Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward-Deployed Engineer owning the full lifecycle of customer deployments for an AI recruiting platform: designing workflows, building integrations with ATS and third-party systems, onboarding, and production support.

$150,000–$180,000

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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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OpenAIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-NYC

New York, NYHybrid

OpenAI is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to build and deploy AI systems for legal work, embedding with law firms and legal teams to identify high-value use cases, prototype solutions, and drive production adoption.

$185,000–$300,000

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H CompanyProduction engineering

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer - US

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

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at H Company, an enterprise agentic AI startup, responsible for deploying AI agents at customer sites, integrating with their systems, and feeding field learnings back into the product.

Pay range unavailable

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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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RedpandaProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer - Western US

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer at Redpanda, embedded with strategic customers to build production-grade agents, integrations, and data pipelines on the Agentic Data Plane.

$194,400–$228,800

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ReplitProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Foster City, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer who embeds with strategic enterprise customers to architect, build, integrate, and deploy production applications and AI-powered workflows on Replit.

$180,000–$300,000

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IronsiteProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer at Ironsite, a construction-tech startup building an AI intelligence layer for physical-world projects.

$100,000–$160,000

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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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DatabricksProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Databricks is hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to work hands-on with enterprise customers, architecting and delivering production-grade data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

$182,000–$250,208

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Assort HealthProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Own end-to-end technical deployments of production AI agents for health systems, from scoping and integrations through go-live and ongoing optimization.

$190,000–$240,000

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blockstreamProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Menlo Park, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with enterprise customer engineering teams to implement, integrate, deploy, and support Blockstream products in complex financial-institution environments.

Pay range unavailable

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