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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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EverlawInternal deployment & tooling

GTM AI Engineer

Oakland, CAHybrid

Senior GTM AI Engineer at Everlaw, owning the multi-year GTM AI technical roadmap and building an intelligence platform that optimizes Sales, Sales Ops, Marketing, and Customer Success.

$154,000–$213,000

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ALSOInternal deployment & tooling

Senior Staff Deployment Strategist, Operations

Palo Alto, CAOn-site

Senior Staff Deployment Strategist to build ALSO's operations OS for manufacturing and delivery—from contract manufacturer production to customer door—replacing spreadsheets with scalable systems.

$170,000–$225,000

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TuringDeployment team leadership

Staff Research Engineer

Palo Alto, CA · San Francisco, CA · +1 moreOn-site

Staff Research Engineer owning the full lifecycle of large-scale reinforcement learning environments for frontier AI labs and enterprise clients, from design and task generation through reward verification, quality, and delivery.

$250,000–$400,000 · OTE

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RobinhoodInternal deployment & tooling

Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Build

Menlo Park, CAHybrid

Senior Software Engineer on a small Enterprise Build team that converts AI-generated prototypes from Finance, HR, Legal, and Compliance into secure, production-grade enterprise services.

$130,000–$195,000

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SkydioInternal deployment & tooling

Lead GTM Platform Engineer

San Mateo, CAHybrid

Lead the design and development of Skydio's GTM platform as a hands-on engineering leader, owning technical architecture while writing production code.

$230,000–$303,000

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PerplexityInternal deployment & tooling

Legal and Operations Engineering Lead

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Leads the architecture and delivery of a Legal and Operations Engineering platform that automates high-volume workflows across contracting, e-discovery, governance, vendor onboarding, and litigation management.

$150,000–$250,000

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Block (Square)Internal deployment & tooling

Legal Systems Architect

San Francisco, CA

Legal Systems Architect leading the architecture, integration, and evolution of systems supporting Block’s global Legal organization.

$145,400–$257,600

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WaymoInternal deployment & tooling

AI Enablement Lead

Mountain View, CAHybrid

Lead AI enablement across Waymo's G&A functions, acting as a domain authority to drive adoption of generative AI and agentic systems.

$200,000–$247,000

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MercorDeployment team leadership

Enterprise Applied AI Leader

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYOn-site

Lead the forward-deployed engineering team for Mercor's Enterprise AI platform, deploying production-grade AI systems for Fortune 500 customers.

$300,000–$520,000

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ZooxInternal deployment & tooling

Lead AI Engineer – Enterprise Data & AI

Foster City, CAHybrid

Lead the design and deployment of enterprise GenAI/LLM applications and agentic workflows at Zoox, integrating data sources across corporate functions like Procurement, Supply Chain, Legal, Finance, HR, and Manufacturing.

Pay range unavailable

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Distyl AIDeployment team leadership

AI Engineer, Enterprise Lead

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

This senior technical leadership role owns the success of complex enterprise AI deployments across major customer engagements or portfolios of accounts.

$200,000–$250,000

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DatabricksInternal deployment & tooling

Staff Fullstack Engineer, Agentic Applications

Mountain View, CA

Staff Fullstack Engineer serving as the technical anchor for Databricks' People Technology pod, architecting an AI-native platform for HR, recruiting, workforce analytics, and employee experience.

$192,000–$260,000

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RoboForceInternal deployment & tooling

Lead AI Native Engineer

Milpitas, CAOn-site

Lead the hands-on architecture and production deployment of RoboForce’s vertical agents and shared agent foundation, reporting directly to the co-founder.

Pay range unavailable

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FigmaInternal deployment & tooling

Marketing Engineer

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYRemote

The Marketing Engineer, AI Deployment builds and scales AI-powered go-to-market systems for Marketing, converting manual workflows into automated tools, agents, integrations, and reusable infrastructure.

$127,000–$296,000

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ServalDeployment team leadership

Deployment Leadership

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Deployment Leader responsible for building Serval’s deployed software engineering function and owning implementations of its AI platform for strategic enterprise customers.

$250,000–$400,000

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OpenAIInternal deployment & tooling

Capacity Systems Software Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Build the software platforms, backend services, data systems, and automation that give OpenAI’s Industrial Compute organization a unified view of capacity planning, fleet health, demand, deployment readiness, financial planning, and product consumption.

$293,000–$385,000

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GustoInternal deployment & tooling

Agentic Operations Architect

Denver, CO · New York, NY · +2 moreHybrid

The Agentic Operations Architect owns reusable patterns, standards, governance, and tooling that enable teams to build reliable agentic customer-service workflows faster and more safely.

$168,420–$247,369

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AppleInternal deployment & tooling

Staff Software Engineer (Applied AI)

Cupertino, CA

Staff Software Engineer building applied AI solutions for Apple’s manufacturing systems and operations, serving teams and suppliers involved in designing and producing hardware at scale.

$194,600–$293,900

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Scale AIInternal deployment & tooling

Staff Software Engineer, Public Sector

San Francisco, CA · Saint Louis, MO · +2 more

Staff Software Engineer leading architecture and implementation of agentic capabilities for federal customers, including guardrails, explainability, fleet orchestration, and real-time processing of federal datasets.

$188,800–$362,000

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AppleInternal deployment & tooling

GenAI Solutions Architect, Customer Systems

Sunnyvale, CA

Apple's Support Engineering GenAI Solutions team seeks a hands-on Solutions Architect to lead design and implementation of GenAI applications (LLMs, RAG, Agents) for customer systems, primarily automating contact center use cases.

Pay range unavailable

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