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LabelboxInternal deployment & tooling

Forward Deployed Engineer, RL Environments

SF Bay Area

Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operationalizing sandboxed, reproducible reinforcement learning environments for agent training and evaluation.

$140,000–$200,000

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CrestaImplementation & delivery

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Agent)

USRemote

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for deploying, integrating, and optimizing AI agents for enterprise customers while partnering closely with software, ML, product, and customer teams.

$185,000–$235,000

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LabelboxDeployment strategy

Forward Deployed Research Scientist

San Francisco, CA

Forward Deployed Research Scientists embed with frontier AI lab clients to shape data strategies, run rapid ablation studies, and fine-tune open-weight models across multiple engagements.

$200,000–$300,000

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DexterityImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer

Redwood City, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer at Dexterity, a warehouse robotics company, acts as the front line to bring new robot applications online at customer sites, bridging product gaps and driving operational metrics for fleet-wide scaling.

Pay range unavailable

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HiveImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Software Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Hive, owning end-to-end delivery of high-impact solutions for strategic partners.

Pay range unavailable

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Maple AIInternal deployment & tooling

Forward Deployed Engineer - Growth

New York, NYOn-site

Own Maple’s revenue-generating systems end to end, spanning lead-to-revenue pipelines, sales-representative tooling, growth experiments, data systems, and automation.

$100,000–$200,000

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HebbiaCustomer adoption & accounts

Forward Deployed Banker (AI Strategist)

New York, NYOn-site

Forward Deployed Bankers deploy Hebbia’s AI platform across top global financial institutions, translating complex banking and legal workflows into measurable customer value.

$90,000–$225,000

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StackAIImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer - Healthcare

New York, NYHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer focused on deploying enterprise-grade AI solutions (RAG pipelines, LLM workflows) for strategic healthcare accounts, particularly in payer/provider sectors.

$153,000–$200,000

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TavusImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

The Forward Deployed Engineer bridges customer-facing technical work and core product engineering, spending 30–40% of their time debugging integrations, building proofs of concept, and unblocking adoption.

Pay range unavailable

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SiftImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer

Marina Del Rey, CA · San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineers adapt a high-frequency telemetry platform to solve complex customer engineering problems across aerospace, autonomous systems, and renewable energy.

$125,000–$175,000

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LiveKitImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NYRemote

Forward Deployed Engineer partnering directly with customer engineering teams to architect, build, debug, and scale real-time audio, video, and voice AI applications on LiveKit.

$180,000–$320,000

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BrelliumImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NYHybrid

Brellium is hiring its first Forward Deployed Engineer to own technical delivery for enterprise healthcare accounts.

$140,000–$200,000

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ModalImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer - ML

New York, NY · San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed ML Engineer partnering with leading AI companies and foundation model labs to optimize production workloads (LLM serving, model training, audio pipelines, scientific computing) on Modal's serverless GPU infrastructure.

$180,000–$250,000

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PromptQLImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Analyst, US

San Francisco, CA · US remoteRemote

This role is a Forward Deployed Analyst at PromptQL, an AI platform company, working directly with customers to translate business problems into analytical and AI-powered solutions.

$175,000–$205,000

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ConcourseCustomer adoption & accounts

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NYOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer at Concourse, an AI startup building agents for corporate finance teams.

Pay range unavailable

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Opal SecurityImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer serving as the technical bridge between Opal and enterprise prospects and customers across sales cycles, implementations, and expansions.

$140,000–$250,000

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VantacaImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer

Redwood City, CA · US remoteRemote

Forward Deployed Engineer at HOAi (acquired by Vantaca) to design, build, and deploy AI agent solutions for community association management.

Pay range unavailable

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CinderImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NYOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer at Cinder, a mission-critical Trust & Safety infrastructure platform for large internet platforms.

$165,000–$235,000

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AfreshDeployment strategy

Deployment Strategist

San Francisco, CA

The Deployment Strategist leads enterprise grocery customer engagements from discovery through deployment and expansion, translating complex business problems into AI use cases and guiding what Afresh builds.

$171,200–$256,800 · OTE

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Sequence HoldingsDeployment strategy

Deployment Strategist

New York, NYOn-site

Deployment Strategists lead the applied-AI refounding of acquired service businesses, working directly in portfolio-company operating environments to identify high-impact opportunities and design systems, workflows, and tools.

$200,000–$300,000

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SimileDeployment strategy

Deployment Strategist - Healthcare

New York, NYOn-site

Deployment Strategist - Healthcare embeds with enterprise account teams to own 1-2 customer relationships, lead deployments, and translate customer needs into product and modeling decisions.

$150,000–$300,000

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VantorDeployment strategy

Deployment Strategist (Secret)

Herndon, VA

Deployment Strategist supporting Vantor’s USG sales team by driving adoption of new products and complex solutions for defense and intelligence customers.

$137,000–$182,000

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MongoDBImplementation & delivery

Senior Consulting Engineer

AZ, CA, WA

Senior Consulting Engineer in MongoDB Professional Services, delivering customer implementations across the full application lifecycle, from architecture to production operations, and providing training.

$123,000–$242,000

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TrueFoundryImplementation & delivery

Senior Technical Customer Architect

San Mateo, CAHybrid

Senior Technical Customer Architect at TrueFoundry, a Series A AI infrastructure startup, serving as the primary post-sales technical contact for large enterprise customers adopting their AI Gateway platform.

Pay range unavailable

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ConcourseDeployment strategy

AI Deployment Strategist

New York, NYOn-site

Concourse is hiring an AI Deployment Strategist to build and deploy AI agents for corporate finance teams, working alongside the CTO and forward deployed engineering.

Pay range unavailable

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FivetranImplementation & delivery

Resident Solution Architect

CORemote

Resident Solution Architect in Fivetran’s Professional Services team supporting dbt Platform Enterprise customers through implementations, architecture, troubleshooting, adoption, and solution design.

$179,982–$224,978

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