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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

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Santa Clara, CA

Staff-level ML engineer owning the AI layer of ServiceNow's CPQ platform: building and evolving production agent architectures (LangGraph, custom Harness runtime, MCP, A2A) that let users configure and quote via natural language.

$176,100–$308,200

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GoogleProduction engineering

Staff Applied AI Agent Developer

New York, NY · Sunnyvale, CA · +1 more

Staff-level role embedded with strategic Google Cloud customers to design, build, and deploy custom conversational AI agents on Gemini Enterprise.

$207,000–$300,000

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Toshiba Global Commerce SolutionsProduction engineering

Client Software Architect

Durham, NC

Senior Software Architect responsible for end-to-end architecture and delivery of cloud-native retail platform and client solutions, spanning discovery, implementation, integrations, and operational readiness.

Pay range unavailable

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ViaProduction engineering

Staff Engineer, AI Labs

New York, NY

Founding Staff Engineer for Via's new AI Labs, an incubator-style team building AI-powered products for cities beyond transit.

$200,000–$275,000

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phDataProduction engineering

Principal Applied AI Solutions Architect

USRemote

Principal Solutions Architect leading end-to-end architecture, deployment, and lifecycle management of production AI/ML and data solutions for strategic enterprise clients.

Pay range unavailable

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FlipProduction engineering

Staff Software Engineer 

Marina Del Rey, CA · Williamsburg, NYOn-site

Staff engineers will build and own production systems powering an orchestrated voice-agent platform that handles millions of real-time customer contacts daily.

$200,000–$400,000

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Scale AIProduction engineering

Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYOn-site

Frontier Agent Engineers design, evaluate, and deploy production AI agents for enterprise customers, combining frontier models with retrieval, memory, structured knowledge, traditional ML, and enterprise software.

$180,000–$225,000

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FlipProduction engineering

Staff Software Engineer 

Marina Del Rey, CA · Williamsburg, NYOn-site

Staff Software Engineer reporting to the CTO, building and operating an orchestrated voice-agent platform that handles millions of live contacts daily while expanding into chat.

$200,000–$400,000

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STRProduction engineering

Lead Mission Engineer - Full Stack

San Diego, CA · Denver, CO · +2 more

Lead full-stack mission engineering teams that build, integrate, deploy, and field-test operational software for military and government customers in secure environments.

$175,000–$240,000

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FourKitesProduction engineering

Principal Engineer, Customer Engineering

Chicago, ILRemote

Principal Engineer serving as senior technical authority across Fortune 500 customer base, owning complex integration designs and AI-powered workflow implementations end-to-end.

$140,000–$170,000

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Cadence Design SystemsProduction engineering

Principal AI Forward Deployment Engineer

Portland, OR · Cary, NCOn-site

Cadence is hiring a Principal AI Forward Deployment Engineer to embed with strategic semiconductor customers and operationalize Cadence's AI and agentic solutions across their end-to-end silicon design flows.

Pay range unavailable

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DecagonProduction engineering

Staff Software Engineer, Agent Product

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Staff engineers on the Agent Product Engineering team own the end-to-end development of mission-critical AI agents serving millions of users and enterprise customers.

$200,000–$400,000

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CompassX GroupProduction engineering

Solution Architect - GenAI

Irvine, CAHybrid

This is a hands-on GenAI Solution Architect role at a boutique consultancy, requiring both architecture design and active building of agentic AI systems for enterprise clients.

Pay range unavailable

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CoreWeaveProduction engineering

Staff Specialist Field Engineer, Robotics

San Francisco, CA · Sunnyvale, CA

Staff Specialist Field Engineer leading CoreWeave’s robotics Field Engineering vertical, from customer scoping through embedded deployment and expansion.

$177,000–$237,000

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The Trade DeskProduction engineering

Staff Software Engineer - Custom Solutions

Bellevue, WA

Staff Software Engineer on a small, high-impact Custom Solutions team building reusable end-to-end systems for advertisers, spanning client applications, backend services, data workflows, automation, and productionized data science.

$124,900–$228,900

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BCGProduction engineering

BCG Platinion | Lead AI Tech Architect - AI Platforms

Atlanta, GA · Austin, TX · +16 more

Lead AI Tech Architect role at BCG Platinion, part of BCG's Tech and Digital Advantage practice, focused on designing and guiding implementation of intelligent, agentic AI platforms for enterprise clients.

$190,000

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Scale AIProduction engineering

Senior Staff Frontier Agents Engineer

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

Senior Staff Frontier Agents Engineer who serves as the hands-on technical bridge between Scale AI’s frontier AI capabilities and strategic enterprise customers.

$288,000–$360,000

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XometryProduction engineering

Staff Data Scientist

North Bethesda, MD · Waltham, MAHybrid

Staff Data Scientist leading the production integration of Xometry’s Design for Manufacturability and Instant Quoting AI into a major enterprise partner’s software and PLM ecosystem.

$163,000–$190,000

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AccentureProduction engineering

Full Stack AI Developer

US · city not listed

Full-stack AI developer role on Accenture's AI & Data team, building production-grade LLM-powered applications for enterprise clients.

Pay range unavailable

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AnthropicProduction engineering

Staff+ Software Engineer, Public Sector

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

Staff-level engineer building and scaling Claude products for U.S. government and allied-democracy customers across regulated and constrained environments.

$405,000–$485,000

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