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Booz AllenProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer

Fort Belvoir, VA · Reston, VA

This role is for an Applied AI Engineer on Booz Allen's national security team, focusing on training, testing, deploying, and maintaining ML models that process massive datasets.

$99,000–$225,000

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VoltaiProduction engineering

Senior Software Engineer: Solutions

San Francisco, CA · Atherton, CA · +1 moreHybrid

Voltai is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to deliver its AI platform for semiconductor and consumer electronics companies, owning customer deployments and developing features for on-prem and cloud environments.

Pay range unavailable

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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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firecrawlProduction engineering

Implementation Specialist

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Implementation Specialist responsible for taking Firecrawl customers from signed contract through production deployment, adoption, and expansion.

$190,000–$265,000

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Retell AIProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer (Customer Facing)

Redwood City, CAOn-site

Applied AI Engineers design and deploy production voice AI applications directly with enterprise customers, integrating APIs and SDKs while solving issues across telephony, infrastructure, latency, and AI behavior.

$180,000–$300,000

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AndurilProduction engineering

Senior Ground Software Engineer, Space

Chantilly, VA

Senior Ground Software Engineer owning the architecture, deployment, and evolution of Space Command and Control and mission-management software for DoD and IC customers.

$191,000–$253,000

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WriterProduction engineering

AI deployment engineer (West)

San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +3 moreHybrid

Deployment engineer partnering with Fortune 500 enterprise customers to architect and implement AI solutions on Writer's platform, owning end-to-end technical delivery and driving adoption.

$131,800–$185,000

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Scale AIProduction engineering

Senior Mission Software Engineer, Public Sector

Austin, TX · Colorado Springs, CO · +4 moreHybrid

Senior mission software engineer embedded with U.S. government customers, including military and Intelligence Community organizations, to take AI applications from prototype through production.

$186,000–$279,000

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AppianProduction engineering

Consultant (Technical, Public Sector)

Mclean, VAOn-site

Technical Consultant in Appian’s Customer Success organization, delivering post-sales software and AI solutions across the full project lifecycle on the Appian platform.

$75,000–$175,000

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SiftProduction engineering

Application Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA · Los Angeles, CAHybrid

Application Software Engineer serving as the technical bridge between Sift’s telemetry platform and customers building aerospace, autonomous, renewable-energy, and other advanced engineering systems.

$125,000–$175,000

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WriterProduction engineering

AI deployment engineer (UK)

San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +3 moreHybrid

Deployment engineer role at Writer, a generative AI platform company, focused on partnering with enterprise customers to architect and implement AI solutions using Writer's platform and LLMs.

Pay range unavailable

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LeidosProduction engineering

Application Developer (SWE-2)

Fort Meade, MD

Application Developer supporting an Intel Sector prototype-development program and the Eurasia & Western Hemisphere mission.

$87,100–$157,450

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UltralyticsProduction engineering

Solutions Engineer

New York, NYOn-site

Solutions Engineer responsible for turning complex computer vision problems into production systems built on YOLO, from technical discovery and architecture through proof-of-concepts, deployment, and customer outcomes.

Pay range unavailable

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WriterProduction engineering

AI deployment engineer (East)

San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +3 moreHybrid

Writer is hiring a hybrid AI Deployment Engineer to partner with Fortune 500 enterprise customers, architecting and delivering custom AI solutions on Writer's platform (LLMs, APIs, Knowledge Graph).

$146,400–$185,000

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LeidosProduction engineering

Senior AI Engineer (SWE-3)

Linthicum Heights, MD

Senior AI Engineer role within Leidos' Intel Sector, supporting an AI and Emerging Technologies mission.

$107,900–$195,050

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WriterProduction engineering

AI deployment engineer (Central)

San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +3 moreHybrid

Deployment engineer role partnering with Fortune 500 enterprise customers to architect and implement AI solutions on Writer's platform.

$131,800–$166,000

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Scale AIProduction engineering

Field Engineer, Public Sector

Austin, TX · Colorado Springs, CO · +3 more

Field Engineer supporting federal AI projects, working directly with public-sector customers to build production-grade data pipelines and integrations.

$150,400–$226,550

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SambaNova SystemsProduction engineering

Forward Deployment Engineer

USRemote

Forward Deploy Engineers embed with strategic enterprise customers to design, deploy, and optimize production generative AI applications on SambaNova's SN40L and SambaStack platforms.

$138,000–$170,000

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RillaProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Integrations

New York, NYOn-site

This forward-deployed engineering role owns end-to-end customer integration projects, from understanding executive workflows and data models to wrangling large-scale data and building integrations or full-stack features.

$200,000–$230,000

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Hubs.isProduction engineering

AI Solutions Architect

US · city not listedHybrid

Hands-on AI Solutions Architect for an early-stage Forward Deployed team at Hubs, building end-to-end AI solutions on the Hubs platform for design-partner organizations.

Pay range unavailable

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CapcoProduction engineering

Sr. AI Engineer

Orlando, FLHybrid

Senior GenAI Engineer role on Capco's Technology Delivery Team, building and scaling generative AI solutions for financial services clients.

Pay range unavailable

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AdelphiProduction engineering

Machine Learning Engineer

Washington, DCRemote

Forward-deployed ML engineer role embedded with defense/intelligence customers, building agentic full-stack systems on frontier models from prototype to production.

Pay range unavailable

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

This role partners with enterprise organizations to design, build, evaluate, and deploy AI systems from initial use-case selection through production scale.

$251,000–$278,000

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CapcoProduction engineering

Sr. AI Engineer

Charlotte, NCHybrid

Senior GenAI Engineer on Capco's Technology Delivery Team, building and scaling generative AI solutions for financial services clients.

Pay range unavailable

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