Compare current US jobs, responsibilities, locations and advertised pay. Includes forward deployed engineering and related deployment roles. Check each posting for residency restrictions and travel requirements. Responsibility levels reflect our reading of the work, not just the employer’s title.
FDE roles first · Newer within each type
AtomicProduction engineering
USRemote
Founding forward-deployed AI engineer responsible for building domain-specific agents and AI-native systems of record across a portfolio of software businesses serving overlooked, mission-critical industries.
$200,000–$250,000
View job →BroadcomProduction engineering
NMRemote
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with enterprise customers across the full lifecycle of Kubernetes platform modernization, stateful workload migration, and AI infrastructure deployments.
$110,800–$177,300
View job →RenderProduction engineering
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
View job →KongProduction engineering
Phoenix, AZRemote
Staff-level Forward Deployed Engineer in Kong’s Professional Services organization, partnering directly with Fortune 50/500 enterprise customers to implement and modernize API and AI connectivity platforms across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments.
$192,010–$274,300
View job →AlationProduction engineering
USRemote
Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer serving as the primary technical bridge between strategic Fortune 500 customers and Alation's Product and Engineering teams.
$148,974–$201,115
View job →BroadcomProduction engineering
NC, NY, TXRemote
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer serving as a senior R&D extension in the field across Broadcom’s Infrastructure Software Division.
$110,800–$177,300
View job →SalesforceProduction engineering
Herndon, VARemote
Lead Forward Deployed Engineer for Salesforce's Public Sector team, blending data science, integration architecture, and strategic partnership.
$172,500–$260,100
View job →KongProduction engineering
Austin, TXRemote
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer leading hands-on implementation, migration, automation, and solution engineering for enterprise customers adopting Kong’s API and AI connectivity platform.
$192,010–$274,300
View job →LiatrioProduction engineering
USRemote
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer leading enterprise architecture and technical strategy for major client engagements, embedding with enterprise teams to drive AI-native transformation and legacy modernization.
Pay range unavailable
View job →BroadcomProduction engineering
NY, NJRemote
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with enterprise client and core engineering teams across the full lifecycle of Kubernetes platform modernization, stateful workload migration, and AI infrastructure deployments.
$110,800–$177,300
View job →FigmaProduction engineering
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
View job →KongProduction engineering
Austin, TXRemote
Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer in Kong’s Professional Services organization, partnering with Fortune 50/500 customers on production implementations across APIs, AI gateways, service connectivity, and cloud-native platforms.
$192,010–$274,300
View job →RingCentralProduction engineering
USRemote
Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer for RingCentral's AIR Pro agentic AI platform, owning end-to-end deployments of production voice/digital agents inside enterprise customer environments.
$147,700–$215,000
View job →BroadcomProduction engineering
CA, NC, TXRemote
Principal-level Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with Broadcom's largest enterprise accounts, bridging R&D and field engineering to drive platform modernizations, stateful workload migrations, and AI inferencing deployments on VMware Cloud Foundation and Kubernetes.
$132,200–$211,500
View job →TenstorrentProduction engineering
Austin, TX · Santa Clara, CARemote
Staff-level forward deployed engineer at Tenstorrent, an AI hardware/software company.
$100,000–$500,000 · base + variable
View job →GitLabProduction engineering
USRemote
Staff Forward Deployed Engineers operate at the intersection of strategic customer challenges and GitLab product engineering, diagnosing complex adoption, architecture, performance, security, and AI-governance issues while contributing production-quality code.
$254,000–$297,000
View job →DigitalOceanProduction engineering
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
View job →BroadcomProduction engineering
CORemote
Principal-level Forward Deployed Engineer embedded in Broadcom's Infrastructure Software Division, acting as a senior R&D extension in the field for the largest enterprise accounts.
$132,200–$211,500
View job →SandboxAQProduction engineering
USRemote
SandboxAQ's AQNav team seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy and validate GPS-independent magnetic navigation solutions on military and commercial platforms.
$118,400–$222,000
View job →GitLabProduction engineering
USRemote
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer shaping GitLab Duo Agent Platform and agentic software development systems.
Pay range unavailable
View job →Tessera LabsProduction engineering
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
View job →GleanProduction engineering
USRemote
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Glean, a Work AI platform.
$160,000–$270,000
View job →SmartsheetProduction engineering
USRemote
Senior Principal Forward Deployed AI Engineer leading Smartsheet’s most complex enterprise AI deployments from discovery through production handoff.
$235,000–$315,000
View job →sprucesystemsProduction engineering
USRemote
Principal-level forward deployed engineer leading technical strategy and delivery for state government digital identity deployments.
$200,000–$225,000
View job →ServiceNowProduction engineering
San Francisco, CARemote
Senior Staff AI Agent Engineer on the Moveworks Customer Deployment team, owning end-to-end technical relationships with 3-5 strategic enterprise customers.
$190,900–$334,100
View job →General Dynamics Information TechnologyProduction engineering
USRemote
Principal-level data scientist role supporting the CMS Hosting, Operations & Maintenance (HOM) program, focused on designing and implementing AI/ML solutions hands-on from prototype to production.
$122,400–$165,600
View job →phDataProduction engineering
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
View job →IFSProduction engineering
Itasca, ILRemote
Principal-level forward-deployed AI engineer building next-generation mobile solutions for aviation maintenance in the Aerospace & Defense sector.
Pay range unavailable
View job →Red Cell PartnersProduction engineering
Seattle, WA · Mclean, VARemote
Staff Software Engineer splitting time between building Trase's core AI platform and delivering it directly to enterprise customers.
$180,000–$240,000
View job →Trase SystemsProduction engineering
Seattle, WA · Mclean, VARemote
Staff Software Engineer splitting time between building Trase's core agentic AI platform and delivering it directly to customers in regulated industries like healthcare and defense.
$180,000–$240,000
View job →FourKitesProduction 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
View job →NebiusProduction engineering
USRemote
Principal ML Solutions Architect for Nebius Token Factory, a serverless platform for running and customizing open-source LLMs in production.
$208,000–$261,000
View job →Fidelity National Information ServicesProduction engineering
Jacksonville, FLRemote
FIS seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer Principal to embed with clients and build production AI/agentic solutions using LLMs, agent workflows, and modern AI tooling.
Pay range unavailable
View job →Zus HealthProduction engineering
USRemote
Staff Integrations Engineer at Zus Health, a healthcare data interoperability platform.
Pay range unavailable
View job →StriveworksProduction engineering
Austin, TXRemote
Staff Machine Learning Engineer serving as a core contributor and customer-facing technical leader, designing and delivering production AI systems from data shaping and analytics through end-user delivery.
$200,000–$250,000
View job →StriveworksProduction engineering
Austin, TXRemote
Staff Machine Learning Engineer who serves as both a hands-on technical contributor and customer-facing leader, designing and delivering production AI systems from data shaping through end-user deployment.
$210,000–$260,000
View job →PositronInternal deployment & tooling
USRemote
Lead engineer on the Director's staff for the Accelerator Platform Software (APS) team, owning AI-assisted development across firmware, runtime, performance, and simulation sub-teams.
$325,000–$400,000
View job →BroadcomImplementation & delivery
Charlotte, NCRemote
Staff-level Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with enterprise clients to drive Kubernetes platform modernization, migration of stateful workloads, and AI infrastructure adoption on VMware's VKS.
$110,800–$177,300
View job →NBCUniversalInternal deployment & tooling
Universal City, CARemote
Staff Software Engineer leading development of scalable systems leveraging frontier AI capabilities, forward-deployed to prove business value of AI foundation models across TV, film, theme parks, and other business groups.
$130,000–$170,000
View job →WillowTreeDeployment team leadership
USRemote
Director-level role leading a team of Forward Deployed Researchers and Engineers embedded within Fortune 500 and regulated clients, driving frontier AI research into production.
$211,000–$264,000
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