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.
FDE roles first · Newer within each type
AccentureProduction engineering
Atlanta, GA · Milwaukee, WI · +41 more
A production engineering role embedded inside client enterprises to secure AI systems in real, complex environments.
$112,900–$366,300
View job →PVMProduction engineering
Huntsville, ALOn-site
Forward-deployed technical leader responsible for architecting and delivering secure Palantir implementations for government missions in national security, readiness, and space.
Pay range unavailable
View job →AdobeProduction engineering
San Jose, CA
Own the hardest engagements — strategic top-tier customers, first engagements in new verticals, multi-year arcs that define the FDE org's reputation.
$190,200–$360,500
View job →SnowflakeProduction engineering
Menlo Park, CAHybrid
This hands-on technical leadership role owns end-to-end enterprise AI engagements for strategic customers, from architecture and deployment through production monitoring and optimization.
$200,000–$270,000
View job →AccentureProduction engineering
Atlanta, GA · Milwaukee, WI · +41 more
A Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Accenture is a production engineer embedded inside client enterprises to secure AI systems in real, complex environments.
$80,400–$305,000
View job →MaybernProduction engineering
New York, NYHybrid
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer leading senior client engagements for production AI and analytical applications serving large private funds.
$310,000–$350,000
View job →Scale AIProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 more
Staff-level forward-deployed engineer responsible for architecting, deploying, and operating production AI agent systems for strategic enterprise customers.
$252,000–$315,000
View job →SnowflakeProduction engineering
Menlo Park, CAHybrid
Lead a team of Forward Deployed Engineers embedded with customers to architect and execute large-scale data migrations to Snowflake's AI Data Cloud.
$236,000–$339,250
View job →AccentureProduction engineering
Dallas, TX · Columbus, OH · +3 moreHybrid
Senior Manager-level AI/ML Architect role within Accenture's Advanced Technology Centers, embedding with clients to design and deploy enterprise-scale AI agent systems.
$112,900–$338,300
View job →PMGProduction engineering
Dallas, TX · New York, NY · +1 more
Senior individual contributor on a small Forward Deployed Engineering team, partnering with enterprise customers and PMG leadership to turn ambiguous business problems into custom technical solutions.
Pay range unavailable
View job →reflection.aiProduction engineering
New York, NYOn-site
Leads Reflection’s Forward Deployed Engineering function within the AI Solutions team, owning technical strategy and delivery of complex agentic applications from pre-sales discovery through production.
Pay range unavailable
View job →DigitalOceanProduction engineering
San Francisco, CARemote
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for operationalizing production AI-native and agentic workloads for strategic customers on DigitalOcean’s AI-Native Cloud.
$220,000–$239,000
View job →AccentureProduction engineering
Dallas, TX · Columbus, OH · +3 moreHybrid
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer leading modernization of customer data and application ecosystems on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
$112,900–$338,300
View job →GitLabProduction engineering
USRemote
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer shaping GitLab Duo Agent Platform and agentic software development systems.
Pay range unavailable
View job →SandboxAQProduction engineering
USRemote
SandboxAQ's AQNav team seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy and validate GPS-independent magnetic navigation solutions on military and commercial platforms.
$118,400–$222,000
View job →DigitalOceanProduction engineering
Seattle, WAHybrid
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for operationalizing production AI-native and agentic workloads for strategic customers on DigitalOcean’s AI-Native Cloud.
$220,000–$239,000
View job →Tessera LabsProduction engineering
New York, NY · San Francisco, CARemote
Forward-Deploy Engineers own strategic enterprise AI deployments from pre-sales through production, writing software, running process discovery, and driving customer adoption.
$180,000–$233,000
View job →GleanProduction engineering
USRemote
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Glean, a Work AI platform.
$160,000–$270,000
View job →Invisible TechnologiesProduction engineering
New York, NYHybrid
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer leading end-to-end AI-powered systems for clients, from workflow discovery and architecture through deployment and iteration.
$250,000–$300,000
View job →SmartsheetProduction engineering
USRemote
Senior Principal Forward Deployed AI Engineer leading Smartsheet’s most complex enterprise AI deployments from discovery through production handoff.
$235,000–$315,000
View job →Lila SciencesProduction engineering
Cambridge, MA
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer embedding with internal and external materials science teams to rapidly build and deploy customer-specific scientific software on Lila's platform.
$192,000–$256,000
View job →TaktileProduction engineering
New York, NYHybrid
Lead Forward Deployed Engineer at Taktile, an AI-native decision platform for financial institutions.
$240,000–$290,000
View job →Invisible TechnologiesProduction engineering
New York, NYHybrid
Principal engineer on the Forward Deployed Engineering team, building production-grade ML and agentic AI systems across backend infrastructure, cloud operations, and model deployment.
$209,000–$300,000
View job →sprucesystemsProduction engineering
USRemote
Principal-level forward deployed engineer leading technical strategy and delivery for state government digital identity deployments.
$200,000–$225,000
View job →reflection.aiProduction engineering
New York, NYOn-site
Leads end-to-end post-training and evaluation for open-weight LLMs deployed to enterprise and sovereign customers, spanning synthetic data, reward modeling, reinforcement learning, evaluation, and production deployment.
Pay range unavailable
View job →GigaProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer serving as the technical interface and project leader for Giga’s San Francisco customer engagements.
$180,000–$400,000
View job →Invisible TechnologiesProduction engineering
New York, NYHybrid
Staff-level forward-deployed engineer building and operating production ML and agentic AI systems across backend, cloud infrastructure, and data-processing layers.
$209,000–$300,000
View job →C3.aiProduction engineering
Tysons, VA
Senior, hands-on technical leader embedded with Federal, Defense, and Intelligence Community customers to architect, prototype, and deploy enterprise AI solutions in secure and classified environments.
$130,000–$167,000
View job →GoogleProduction engineering
Mountain View, CA
Staff Research Engineer leading the development and production deployment of novel applied AI applications powered by Google DeepMind foundation models.
$207,000–$300,000
View job →Obin AIProduction engineering
New York, NY
Staff AI Engineer building and scaling production-grade LLM agents and RAG systems for complex credit workflows at an early-stage company.
$190,000–$230,000
View job →Scale AIProduction engineering
Denver, CO · Washington, DC
Staff Machine Learning Engineer leading architecture and production deployment of agentic AI systems for classified and regulated government environments.
$274,400–$343,000
View job →Hitachi EnergyProduction engineering
Washington, DCOn-site
The Federal Data Engineer is the technical lead for customer-facing enterprise data engineering and professional services engagements supporting federal customers.
$160,000–$205,000
View job →AMDProduction engineering
Santa Clara, CA
Principal-level software engineering lead at AMD, working with strategic customers to optimize AI workloads on GPU accelerators.
Pay range unavailable
View job →CrusoeProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Staff-level hands-on role owning the LLM inference stack end to end at a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company.
$215,000–$260,000
View job →TrueFoundryProduction engineering
San Mateo, CAHybrid
TrueFoundry is building an AI Gateway control plane for production agentic AI systems, and this Senior AI/ML Engineer will design and own core components for enterprise customers.
Pay range unavailable
View job →AccentureProduction engineering
Irving, TX · Milwaukee, WI · +39 more
Senior technical leadership role at Accenture Security focused on agentic identity platforms for enterprises deploying AI agents.
$80,400–$293,800
View job →CapgeminiProduction engineering
Arlington, VAHybrid
Lead the architecture and implementation of enterprise-scale Agentic AI solutions using Snowflake Cortex, providing technical leadership to a team of engineers and AI practitioners.
$90,786–$120,673
View job →GoogleProduction engineering
New York, NY
This role is a technical solutions consultant and deployment manager for Google Cloud's Applied AI (AAI) portfolio, focusing on agentic AI solutions for strategic global customers, particularly in the telecom industry.
$183,000–$265,000
View job →AMDProduction engineering
Austin, TX · Boxborough, MA
Principal-level software architect at AMD leading end-to-end solution design for enterprise deployments of AMD client and graphics hardware (dGPUs, APUs), focusing on AI inferencing, edge, and hybrid client/cloud.
Pay range unavailable
View job →ServiceNowProduction engineering
San Francisco, CARemote
Senior Staff AI Agent Engineer on the Moveworks Customer Deployment team, owning end-to-end technical relationships with 3-5 strategic enterprise customers.
$190,900–$334,100
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