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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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ServiceNowProduction engineering

Principal AI Forward Deployed Engineer

Santa Clara, CA

Principal customer-facing engineer leading the technical direction of ServiceNow’s CRM & Industry Forward Deployed Engineering group, designing and deploying agentic AI solutions for sales automation, CPQ, customer service, and field service.

$221,200–$387,100

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RenderProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CARemote

Render's first Forward Deployed Engineer will provide hands-on technical partnership to strategic accounts and run onboarding intensives for high-growth AI startups.

$236,000–$289,000

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - SF

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineers lead end-to-end production deployments of frontier models for strategic customers, owning discovery, system design, implementation, and rollout.

$185,000–$300,000

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Snorkel AIProduction engineering

Senior/Staff FDE - CUA

New York, NY · San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer focused on computer-use agents, partnering with AI labs and enterprises to deliver agentic-AI task environments, datasets, evaluators, and production solutions.

$180,000–$320,000

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FigmaProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYRemote

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer who embeds with strategic enterprise customers to solve complex adoption and integration challenges across codebases, design systems, developer environments, and workflows.

$153,000–$376,000

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GigaProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Senior individual contributor role anchoring a pod of Forward Deployed Engineers at an enterprise AI startup.

Pay range unavailable

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AfreshProduction engineering

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer who splits time between embedding with enterprise grocery customers to integrate data and ship production AI systems, and building reusable platform infrastructure from those field learnings.

$168,912–$253,368

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DigitalOceanProduction engineering

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, AI/ML

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

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Tessera LabsProduction engineering

Forward-Deployed Engineer

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

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GigaProduction engineering

Senior / Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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LiberateProduction engineering

Staff AI Agent Engineer

Boston, MA · San Francisco, CAHybrid

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

Pay range unavailable

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