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Staff-level 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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LiberateProduction engineering

Staff AI Agent Engineer

Boston, MA · San Francisco, CAHybrid

Staff-level engineer owning end-to-end deployment of reasoning AI agents for insurance workflows.

Pay range unavailable

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ChalkDeployment strategy

Forward Deployed Strategist

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Strategist owns the technical direction of Chalk's customer integrations, working alongside sales, delivery, and support to advise on architecture, design solutions on Chalk, and scope POCs.

$180,000–$250,000

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Expedia GroupInternal deployment & tooling

Principal AI Forward Deployed Engineer

Seattle, WA · San Jose, CA

Principal-level forward-deployed AI engineer embedded within Expedia Group's business units to identify high-value AI opportunities, translate ambiguous business problems into measurable outcomes, and own the full lifecycle from prototyping to production and adoption.

$231,000–$398,500

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Assort HealthDeployment team leadership

Head of Forward Deployed Engineering

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Head of Forward Deployed Engineering responsible for building production AI-agent systems for Assort Health’s largest and most complex healthcare customers, including health-system deployments, custom EHR integrations, and workflow implementations.

$210,000–$300,000

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Elevance HealthInternal deployment & tooling

Principal Engineer - FDE

Walnut Creek, CAHybrid

Principal Engineer leading end-to-end application architecture and delivery for enterprise-wide technology platforms at Elevance Health.

$218,208–$272,760

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ChalkDeployment team leadership

Director, Forward Deployed Engineering

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYOn-site

Chalk is hiring a Director of Forward Deployed Engineering to lead and scale its FDE team across New York and San Francisco.

$300,000–$350,000

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C3.aiInternal deployment & tooling

Operations Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

Redwood City, CA

This hybrid role runs the operational backbone of C3 AI's professional services organization—staffing, forecasting, utilization, and delivery health—while also hands-on building and maintaining AI agents and internal applications that automate delivery workflows.

$128,000–$159,000

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AMDDeployment team leadership

CVP of Applied AI FDE

San Jose, CA

This is a senior executive role (CVP) leading AMD's Field Deployment Engineering (FDE) organization, responsible for building and scaling a team that covers the full customer deployment lifecycle for massive GPU clusters.

Pay range unavailable

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UnityInternal deployment & tooling

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · Mountain View, CA · +3 more

Unity is hiring a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with internal departments (Finance, Legal, Marketing, People, Operations) and transform their workflows using AI agents and automation.

$179,500–$341,900

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ID.meDeployment team leadership

Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

Mclean, VA · Mountain View, CA · +2 moreOn-site

Manage a small team of forward-deployed engineers embedded with customers, translating real-world integration problems into actionable technical requirements for product ontology and engineering teams.

$154,000–$275,000

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Deep InfraTechnical pre-sales

Forward Deployed Engineer

Palo Alto, CA

DeepInfra is hiring its first Forward Deployed Engineer to own the technical win for enterprise AI inference deals end-to-end, from first call to production.

$150,000–$195,000

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AmigoDeployment team leadership

Head of Forward Deployed Engineering [NYC or SF]

New York, NYOn-site

Lead the Forward Deployed Engineering and Deployment Strategist teams at a clinical AI infrastructure startup, owning end-to-end delivery outcomes across major health systems, life sciences, payors, and government entities.

$300,000–$500,000

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VercelDeployment team leadership

Director of Forward Deployed Engineering

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

Director of Forward Deployed Engineering responsible for building Vercel’s Forward Deployed Engineering and Professional Services function from the ground up.

$240,000–$300,000

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DatadogDeployment team leadership

Datadog for Startups - Forward Deployed Engineering Lead

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Lead the Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) function for Datadog for Startups, defining and scaling the operating model, building a catalog of deployment offerings, and driving field feedback into product roadmap.

$200,000–$250,000

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LabelboxDeployment team leadership

Forward Deployed Engineering Manager

SF Bay Area

Leads and develops the Forward Deployed Engineering team responsible for translating customer data goals into pipelines, measurement, instructions, and quality outcomes for AI programs.

$190,000–$250,000

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AdobeDeployment team leadership

Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering, Creative AI

San Jose, CA

Lead a team of Forward Deployed Creative Technologists as a hands-on player-coach, embedding with enterprise customers to build custom AI-powered creative workflows on Adobe Firefly Services.

$147,900–$293,250

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ParafinInternal deployment & tooling

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed Engineers lead complex, net-new partner integrations and strategic launches from scoping through delivery while contributing code to Parafin's core product and platform.

$215,000–$275,000

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DossDeployment team leadership

Head of Forward Deployed Services

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Head of Forward Deployed Services will own post-sales delivery for Doss’s largest and most complex customers while building the processes and capabilities needed to scale into upper mid-market and enterprise.

Pay range unavailable

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IntercomDeployment team leadership

Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Leads the Forward Deployed Engineering New Business team responsible for winning and delivering complex enterprise AI deployments, including seven-figure opportunities.

$252,000–$280,000

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Snorkel AIDeployment team leadership

Head of Forward Deployed Engineering

New York, NY · San Francisco, CAHybrid

Head of Forward Deployed Engineering will build and lead Snorkel’s DaaS FDE organization, owning scalable workflows and quality across expert-built training and evaluation data pipelines.

$268,800–$403,000

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Snorkel AIDeployment team leadership

Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

New York, NY · San Francisco, CAHybrid

Leads and builds Snorkel AI’s Forward Deployed Engineering function within its Data-as-a-Service organization, owning the technical systems, pipelines, workflows, and quality frameworks behind large-scale dataset production.

$200,000–$320,000

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GenesysImplementation & delivery

Principal Professional Services Engineer

Menlo Park, CARemote

Principal Professional Services Engineer leading Genesys Cloud CX implementations end-to-end, from pre-sales scoping and architecture design to deployment and optimization.

$213,512–$223,512

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NscaleInternal deployment & tooling

Foundry Engineering Lead

New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · +1 more

The Foundry Engineering Lead owns the architecture, development, governance, security, and evolution of Nscale’s Palantir Foundry data platform.

Pay range unavailable

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BenchlingInternal deployment & tooling

Software Engineer, Tools and Automation

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Founding engineer for Benchling’s internal AI & Data Engineering team, owning the architecture and delivery of internal tools, automation, integrations, and agentic systems.

$195,000–$265,000

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IronsiteDeployment team leadership

Head of Field Applications

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Leads Ironsite's Field Applications engineering organization across forward-deployed engineering and mobile/device software.

$200,000–$300,000

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Scale AIInternal deployment & tooling

Staff Network Engineer, App Platform

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 more

Own the network architecture and standards for Scale’s enterprise GenAI platform across a large, multi-cloud fleet of Kubernetes environments, including customer-controlled and regulated deployments.

CrusoeInternal deployment & tooling

Staff Software Engineer, Internal Tools & Automation

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Staff-level forward-deployed engineer embedded with internal Crusoe teams (SRE, Finance, Sales, People Ops, product groups) to build interactive tools, automations, and agents that remove manual work and write back to systems of record.

$215,000–$260,000

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