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Individual contributor FDE jobs in SF Bay Area

Compare current US jobs, responsibilities, locations and advertised pay. Includes forward deployed engineering and related deployment roles. Locations cover the metro area, not only the city.

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NeticProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Intern - 2026-2027

San Francisco, CAOn-site

This 12-week Forward Deployed Engineer internship involves building and deploying multimodal AI agents for essential-service businesses, working directly with enterprise customers to improve revenue and operations.

Pay range unavailable

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KognitosProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

USRemote

This Forward Deployed Engineer role sits at the intersection of engineering and customer success, embedding directly with enterprise customers to design, build, and ship automations on the Kognitos neurosymbolic AI platform.

Pay range unavailable

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AfreshProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer who alternates between embedding with enterprise grocery customers and building the reusable platform behind those deployments.

$156,060–$211,140

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HadrianProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Torrance, CA · San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer at Hadrian embeds on enterprise customer programs to drive them end-to-end, configuring and integrating the Opus platform and building net-new software at the edge.

$120,000–$300,000

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NeticProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - New Grad - 2026-2027

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineers build and deploy multimodal AI agents that automate complex operations for essential-service companies, working directly with enterprise customers from design through rollout and iteration.

Pay range unavailable

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AfreshProduction engineering

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer who splits time between embedding with enterprise grocery customers to integrate data and ship production AI systems, and building reusable platform infrastructure from those field learnings.

$168,912–$253,368

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GigaProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer I/II

San Francisco, CAOn-site

This role is a customer-facing technical position at a Series A AI startup, responsible for building and deploying enterprise AI agents across voice, chat, and email.

$100,000–$190,000

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C3.aiProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, Federal

Redwood City, CA · Tysons, VA

Forward Deployed Engineer on C3 AI's Federal team, building full-stack AI applications on the C3 AI Platform for U.S. federal customers.

$120,000–$158,000

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Periodic LabsProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, Physics & Simulation

Menlo Park, CA · San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward deploy physics and simulation workflows for advanced-manufacturing customer engagements, working on-site with customer engineering teams and collaborating with internal modeling and ML teams.

$200,000–$275,000

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BobyardProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with strategic general-contractor customers, owning end-to-end solutions from discovery and prototyping through deployment, monitoring, and scale.

$130,000–$165,000

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H CompanyProduction engineering

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer - US

San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +1 moreHybrid

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for identifying high-impact customer workflows, integrating agentic AI solutions with customer systems, and delivering production-grade services.

Pay range unavailable

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SieveProduction engineering

Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed

San Francisco, CAOn-site

This forward-deployed engineering role partners directly with frontier AI labs to translate ambiguous data requirements into production systems for finding, generating, filtering, transforming, evaluating, and packaging high-quality video datasets at scale.

$150,000–$350,000

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FurtherAIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Build enterprise-grade AI agents for insurance customers, translating customer workflows into robust production solutions.

$140,000–$225,000

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AI FundProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (Ayama)

SF Bay AreaHybrid

Ayama, an AI startup partnered with AI Fund and a Fortune 500 energy leader, seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to be the technical face at customer sites.

Pay range unavailable

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DigitalOceanProduction engineering

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, AI/ML

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

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AI FundProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Mountain View, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed AI Engineer embedded with enterprise clients to identify AI opportunities, redesign workflows, and implement AI-powered solutions.

Pay range unavailable

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AdobeProduction engineering

Senior AEM Forward Deployed Engineer

San Jose, CA · Austin, TX · +3 more

Senior AEM Forward Deployed Engineer on the AEM Co-Innovation Engineering (ACE) team, responsible for evolving Adobe Experience Manager through customer collaboration, AI-first experimentation, and hands-on development of core product features.

$159,200–$301,600

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NeticProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Build and deploy multimodal AI agents that autonomously handle complex operations for essential-service businesses.

Pay range unavailable

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DatologyAIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Post-Sales)

San Mateo, CAHybrid

Forward-deployed AI engineer responsible for deploying, operating, and driving adoption of a data-curation platform for strategic customers in complex on-premises and hybrid environments.

$230,000–$300,000

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Goodfire AIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deploy Engineers own end-to-end technical delivery for strategic customer engagements, integrating Goodfire's interpretability platform into partner environments and model training stacks.

$200,000–$325,000

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CohereProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform

San Francisco, CARemote

Forward Deployed Engineer shaping Cohere’s North AI workspace by translating ambiguous enterprise problems into production-grade, LLM-powered agentic workflows.

CA$175,000–CA$385,000

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Tessera LabsProduction engineering

Forward-Deployed Engineer

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

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IsidorProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer embedding with frontier AI labs and enterprise to design and ship data pipelines, tools, and automations for critical model training and evaluation workflows.

Pay range unavailable

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ContextProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer - MTS

San Francisco, CAOn-site

This role embeds with Fortune 100 customers to build AI agents that execute complex, high-stakes workflows—not just chat or simple automation.

Pay range unavailable

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