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Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs on-site

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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53 jobs

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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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PVMProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Huntsville, ALOn-site

Forward-deployed technical leader responsible for architecting and delivering secure Palantir implementations for government missions in national security, readiness, and space.

Pay range unavailable

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reflection.aiProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, Lead - AI Engineer

New York, NYOn-site

Leads Reflection’s Forward Deployed Engineering function within the AI Solutions team, owning technical strategy and delivery of complex agentic applications from pre-sales discovery through production.

Pay range unavailable

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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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Hitachi EnergyProduction engineering

Federal Data Engineer

Washington, DCOn-site

The Federal Data Engineer is the technical lead for customer-facing enterprise data engineering and professional services engagements supporting federal customers.

$160,000–$205,000

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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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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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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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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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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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84.51 DegreesInternal deployment & tooling

Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (P4570)

Cincinnati, OH · Chicago, ILOn-site

Lead a hands-on forward-deployed engineering function for the AI SDLC team, embedding with delivery teams to accelerate enterprise adoption of agentic coding tools across Kroger and 84.51°.

$125,000–$207,000

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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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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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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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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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TabsImplementation & delivery

Solution Architect

New York, NYOn-site

Solution Architect owning technical designs for complex, high-value customer implementations involving data models, APIs, and integrations across finance and business systems.

$100,000–$160,000

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ForusInternal deployment & tooling

AI Platform & Enablement Lead

New York, NYOn-site

Own the AI enablement platform for Forus Operations, from internal workspace and knowledge systems to automations, evaluations, monitoring, and shared tooling.

Pay range unavailable

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LangChainInternal deployment & tooling

Lead Applied AI Engineer

New York, NYOn-site

Lead hands-on engineer on LangChain's Applied AI team, building frontier open-source and internal agents (Open SWE, Open Canvas, Deep Research) and driving complex agentic projects end-to-end.

$160,000–$200,000

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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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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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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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PerceptaDeployment team leadership

Applied AI Engineer - Manager

New York, NYOn-site

Player-coach Engineering Manager at Percepta, General Catalyst's AI transformation studio, leading a small team of Applied AI Engineers embedded with enterprise customers.

$250,000–$425,000

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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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