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S32Production engineering

Solutions Engineer (Portfolio)

Palo Alto, CA

S32, a venture capital firm, seeks Solutions Engineers to deploy AI systems for its portfolio companies, partnering closely with customers and bridging engineering and production.

$130,000–$180,000

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer, Digital Natives

New York, NYHybrid

Applied AI Engineer serving sophisticated digital-native customers such as Stripe, Uber, and Reddit, taking frontier AI applications from use-case discovery and prototyping through production deployment and scale.

$251,000–$278,000

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AndurilProduction engineering

Mission Software Engineer, EW

Costa Mesa, CA

Mission Software Engineers own the full software lifecycle for electronic warfare products, spanning embedded systems, backend services, data pipelines, deployment infrastructure, Lattice OS integration, and operator-facing tools.

$166,000–$220,000

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SierraProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Agent - Financial Services

San Francisco, CAOn-site

This engineer owns the end-to-end delivery and continuous improvement of production AI agents for financial-services customers, from initial pilots through scaled deployment.

$180,000–$390,000

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LumafieldProduction engineering

Application Engineer, CV/ML

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Lumafield seeks an ML-experienced, customer-facing engineer to develop and deploy computer-vision models on CT data for industrial inspection.

Pay range unavailable

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer, Digital Natives

San Francisco, CA · Seattle, WAHybrid

Applied AI Engineer serving digital-native platform customers such as Stripe, Uber, and Reddit, taking frontier AI use cases from discovery and prototyping through production deployment, scale, and measurable business impact.

$251,000–$278,000

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AndurilProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Front End

Reston, VA

This front-end software engineer joins Anduril’s Mission Software Engineering team to own customer-deployed software supporting defense missions such as counter-intrusion, joint all-domain command and control, and counter-UAS.

$166,000–$220,000

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Amazon (incl AWS)Production engineering

Delivery Consultant- AI/ML, WWPS ProServe

Jersey City, NJ · Austin, TX · +8 more

Machine Learning Engineer in AWS Professional Services, partnering directly with enterprise customers to architect, implement, and scale secure AI/ML and generative AI solutions on AWS.

$131,300–$204,300

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Field AIProduction engineering

AI Solutions Engineer (Fixed-Term)

Irvine, CAOn-site

AI Solution Engineer responsible for taking customer workflows from discovery through production, building reusable AI capabilities rather than one-off implementations.

Pay range unavailable

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Distyl AIProduction engineering

AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

AI Engineer responsible for designing, deploying, and operating production AI systems inside customer environments, from Python services and compound workflows to evaluation and observability.

$150,000–$250,000

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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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AdelphiProduction engineering

Senior ML Engineer

USRemote

Senior ML Engineer responsible for end-to-end delivery of agentic, full-stack AI systems, from prototype through production, for defense and intelligence customers.

Pay range unavailable

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AndurilProduction engineering

Senior Front End Software Engineer, React

Washington, DC

Builds React and TypeScript front-end tools extending Lattice OS for command and control of complex assets, missile defense missions, networking, and remote asset management at the far edge.

$191,000–$253,000

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Brain Co.Production engineering

AI Product Engineer

New York, NY

The AI Product Engineer builds and deploys end-to-end AI software for complex government and industrial workflows, working directly with customers from product specification through production operations.

Pay range unavailable

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AndurilProduction engineering

Senior Front End Software Engineer, React

Seattle, WA

Senior front-end engineer on Anduril’s Discovery team, building React and TypeScript interfaces that extend Lattice OS for autonomous systems, missile defense, command and control, and far-edge operations.

$191,000–$253,000

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Fireworks AIProduction engineering

AI Field Engineer - Enterprise

San Mateo, CAHybrid

Enterprise AI Field Engineer responsible for embedding with large customers and technology partners to take GenAI systems from discovery and POCs through production-scale deployment.

$200,000–$260,000

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Distyl AIProduction engineering

Research Engineers, Agents

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

Research Engineers bridge frontier AI research and production deployment by designing, evaluating, and hardening agentic systems for complex enterprise workflows.

$150,000–$250,000

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Physical IntelligenceProduction engineering

Deployments Software Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

This role is on the Deployments team at Physical Intelligence, responsible for integrating state-of-the-art vision-language-action models with robots deployed on customer sites.

Pay range unavailable

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AHEADProduction engineering

Senior AI Engineer, AI Services

USRemote

AHEAD seeks a Senior AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy enterprise-grade AI solutions for clients, focusing on multi-agent systems and production workflows.

Pay range unavailable

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RacknerProduction engineering

Software/AI developer

USRemote

Hands-on remote Software/AI Developer supporting government and defense R&D by turning mission needs into prototypes, backend services, data workflows, and AI-enabled applications.

Pay range unavailable

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CrestaProduction engineering

Customer Engineer

USRemote

The Customer Engineer delivers AI solutions for enterprise contact centers by designing, building, deploying, and troubleshooting integrations with customer chat and phone platforms.

Pay range unavailable

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GuidehouseProduction engineering

Border Security AI/ML Engineer

Sterling, VAOn-site

Guidehouse is hiring a Border Security AI/ML Engineer to design, develop, and deploy AI/ML applications for U.S. federal border security and law enforcement clients.

Pay range unavailable

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NextGen Federal SystemsProduction engineering

MCP/Integration Engineer

Aberdeen, MDHybrid

This role builds and integrates MCP-based AI services for mission-focused operational environments, connecting agentic AI workflows to tactical systems, sensors, and databases.

Pay range unavailable

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AccentureProduction engineering

Senior AI Software Engineer

San Diego, CA

Senior AI / Software Platform Engineer responsible for integrating and operating LLM-powered development workflows in a large-scale enterprise Linux platform with approximately 6M+ lines of code, primarily C/C++.

$115,300–$160,100

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SalesforceProduction engineering

Sr. Enterprise Architect, Agentforce Supply Chain

San Francisco, CA · Seattle, WA

Senior Enterprise Architect owning end-to-end integration strategy and delivery for complex Supply Chain and Manufacturing transformations, connecting Agentforce to ERP, PLM, and CRM systems.

$150,100–$247,900

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PeregrineProduction engineering

Deployment Strategist, Federal

Washington, DCHybrid

Own deployment of Peregrine’s operational-intelligence platform for federal customers, translating mission-critical workflows and siloed data into products, models, and pipelines.

$140,000–$190,000

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