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Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs

Compare current US jobs, responsibilities, locations and advertised pay. Includes forward deployed engineering and related deployment roles. Responsibility levels reflect our reading of the work, not just the employer’s title.

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ServiceNowProduction engineering

Principal AI Forward Deployed Engineer

Santa Clara, CA

Principal customer-facing engineer leading the technical direction of ServiceNow’s CRM & Industry Forward Deployed Engineering group, designing and deploying agentic AI solutions for sales automation, CPQ, customer service, and field service.

$221,200–$387,100

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AtomicProduction engineering

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

USRemote

Founding forward-deployed AI engineer responsible for building domain-specific agents and AI-native systems of record across a portfolio of software businesses serving overlooked, mission-critical industries.

$200,000–$250,000

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BroadcomProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (Staff)

NMRemote

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with enterprise customers across the full lifecycle of Kubernetes platform modernization, stateful workload migration, and AI infrastructure deployments.

$110,800–$177,300

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RenderProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CARemote

Render's first Forward Deployed Engineer will provide hands-on technical partnership to strategic accounts and run onboarding intensives for high-growth AI startups.

$236,000–$289,000

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - SF

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineers lead end-to-end production deployments of frontier models for strategic customers, owning discovery, system design, implementation, and rollout.

$185,000–$300,000

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KongProduction engineering

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

Phoenix, AZRemote

Staff-level Forward Deployed Engineer in Kong’s Professional Services organization, partnering directly with Fortune 50/500 enterprise customers to implement and modernize API and AI connectivity platforms across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments.

$192,010–$274,300

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AlationProduction engineering

Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

USRemote

Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer serving as the primary technical bridge between strategic Fortune 500 customers and Alation's Product and Engineering teams.

$148,974–$201,115

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Q2Production engineering

Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

Austin, TX

Senior-level forward deployed engineer partnering with Q2's largest and most complex financial institution customers to design, implement, and deploy secure, scalable solutions in production.

Pay range unavailable

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KongProduction engineering

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

Austin, TXRemote

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer leading hands-on implementation, migration, automation, and solution engineering for enterprise customers adopting Kong’s API and AI connectivity platform.

$192,010–$274,300

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BroadcomProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (Staff)

NY, NJRemote

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with enterprise client and core engineering teams across the full lifecycle of Kubernetes platform modernization, stateful workload migration, and AI infrastructure deployments.

$110,800–$177,300

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Wealth.comProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NYHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer (or Staff Integration Engineer) who embeds with enterprise banking and wealth management clients to deploy, customize, and troubleshoot the Wealth.com estate and tax planning platform in production.

$240,000–$280,000

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KongProduction engineering

Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

Austin, TXRemote

Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer in Kong’s Professional Services organization, partnering with Fortune 50/500 customers on production implementations across APIs, AI gateways, service connectivity, and cloud-native platforms.

$192,010–$274,300

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BroadcomProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (Principal)

CA, NC, TXRemote

Principal-level Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with Broadcom's largest enterprise accounts, bridging R&D and field engineering to drive platform modernizations, stateful workload migrations, and AI inferencing deployments on VMware Cloud Foundation and Kubernetes.

$132,200–$211,500

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Wolters KluwerProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NY · Madison, WI · +8 more

Product-embedded engineering role at Wolters Kluwer Health that works directly with strategic customers to discover high-value problems, build working prototypes, validate impact, and convert repeatable patterns into scalable platform capabilities.

$215,100–$384,400

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BroadcomProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (Principal)

CORemote

Principal-level Forward Deployed Engineer embedded in Broadcom's Infrastructure Software Division, acting as a senior R&D extension in the field for the largest enterprise accounts.

$132,200–$211,500

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Snorkel AIProduction engineering

Senior/Staff FDE - CUA

New York, NY · San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer focused on computer-use agents, partnering with AI labs and enterprises to deliver agentic-AI task environments, datasets, evaluators, and production solutions.

$180,000–$320,000

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Indicium AIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Software Engineer - NYC

New York, NYHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer to anchor Indicium AI's US expansion from NYC, embedding with tier-one clients to transform developer experience and SDLC workflows using Anthropic models, Claude Code, and MCP servers.

$180,000–$240,000

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LiatrioProduction engineering

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

USRemote

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer leading enterprise architecture and technical strategy for major client engagements, embedding with enterprise teams to drive AI-native transformation and legacy modernization.

Pay range unavailable

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Amazon (incl AWS)Production engineering

Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, FDE US Government

Seattle, WA · Arlington, VA · +2 more

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with strategic US government enterprise customers to lead end-to-end delivery of production AI systems, from architecture and prototyping through deployment and operations.

$168,100–$250,200

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FigmaProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYRemote

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer who embeds with strategic enterprise customers to solve complex adoption and integration challenges across codebases, design systems, developer environments, and workflows.

$153,000–$376,000

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RingCentralProduction engineering

Founding AI Forward Deployed Engineer

USRemote

Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer for RingCentral's AIR Pro agentic AI platform, owning end-to-end deployments of production voice/digital agents inside enterprise customer environments.

$147,700–$215,000

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GigaProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Senior individual contributor role anchoring a pod of Forward Deployed Engineers at an enterprise AI startup.

Pay range unavailable

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GitLabProduction engineering

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

USRemote

Staff Forward Deployed Engineers operate at the intersection of strategic customer challenges and GitLab product engineering, diagnosing complex adoption, architecture, performance, security, and AI-governance issues while contributing production-quality code.

$254,000–$297,000

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TalkdeskProduction engineering

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, HLS

Seattle, WA

This Staff Forward Deployed Engineer role at Talkdesk leads technical execution for deploying Agentic AI solutions into strategic enterprise customers.

$200,000–$260,000

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MicrosoftProduction engineering

Principal Software Engineer - FDE

US · city not listed

Principal Software Engineer on Microsoft's Frontier Company Engineering team, working in a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) model embedded directly with enterprise customers.

$142,800–$304,200

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AfreshProduction engineering

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer who splits time between embedding with enterprise grocery customers to integrate data and ship production AI systems, and building reusable platform infrastructure from those field learnings.

$168,912–$253,368

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