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Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs in Seattle 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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32 jobs

FDE roles first · Newer within each type

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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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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DigitalOceanProduction engineering

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, AI/ML

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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T-MobileDeployment team leadership

Sr Manager, Forward Deployment Engineer

Bellevue, WA

This role leads the management layer of T-Mobile's Forward Deployment Engineering practice, overseeing multiple pods of embedded engineers that ship production agentic AI solutions across business units.

$176,000–$317,400

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