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AnthropicTechnical pre-sales

Applied AI Architect, Cyber

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

This customer-facing Applied AI role helps large enterprises use Claude for production cybersecurity workloads, from application security and penetration testing to alert triage and threat intelligence.

$240,000–$315,000

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AMDInternal deployment & tooling

Applied AI Engineer, Top Hardware Priorities

Santa Clara, CAHybrid

Applied AI Engineer role at AMD focused on building AI-assisted workflows for top hardware and software engineering priorities, including design optimization, verification, simulation, and debugging.

Pay range unavailable

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Amazon (incl AWS)Internal deployment & tooling

Sr System Development Engineer, Amazon Leo

Bellevue, WA · Arlington, VA · +1 more

Senior Systems Development Engineer for Amazon Leo's satellite manufacturing facility, bridging IT and OT by integrating PLCs, SCADA, robots, and CNC machines with MES and building custom manufacturing applications and applied AI solutions.

$151,200–$204,600

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OpenAIInternal deployment & tooling

Software Engineer, Safety Engineering

San Francisco, CAHybrid

OpenAI's Safety Engineering team is hiring a full-stack software engineer to build internal tools that improve the safety and reliability of OpenAI's models, with a focus on sensitive areas like mental health and vulnerable-user protections.

$207,000–$385,000

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T-MobileInternal deployment & tooling

Forward Deployment Engineer

Bellevue, WA · Frisco, TX

Hands-on engineer embedded in a T-Mobile business unit to design, build, and tune net-new agentic AI solutions.

$117,800–$212,500

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AndurilInternal deployment & tooling

Senior Software Engineer, Backend - SIG

Santa Ana, CA

Senior backend engineer on Anduril’s Systems Integrity Group, building production services for simulation, digital-twin validation, and verification and validation automation.

$191,000–$253,000

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F5Internal deployment & tooling

Marketing Forward Deployment Engineer

Seattle, WAHybrid

F5 seeks a Marketing Forward-Deployed Engineer to bridge AI and marketing workflows, designing and deploying AI-powered applications and agents for content creation, campaign optimization, and analytics.

$179,500–$269,300

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CoxInternal deployment & tooling

Sr Software Engineer

Atlanta, GA · Austin, TX · +1 moreHybrid

Senior Software Engineer on Cox Automotive's enterprise AI platform (Quick) on AWS, owning connector governance, AI artifact hub, and reliability/observability for AI at scale.

$101,500–$169,100

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Diamondback EnergyInternal deployment & tooling

AI Developer

Dallas, TX

Foundational role on a new AI team at an energy company, building and deploying AI applications, agents, and workflows across Azure, Snowflake, and Anthropic's Claude stack.

Pay range unavailable

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AndurilInternal deployment & tooling

Agentic AI Engineer, Automation

Costa Mesa, CA · Long Beach, CAOn-site

Build and own agentic AI pipelines that automate aerospace engineering workflows across design, analysis, testing, and iteration for autonomous air vehicles.

$220,000–$292,000

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RipplingInternal deployment & tooling

Senior Data Scientist, Applied AI

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior applied AI builder on Rippling's Go-to-Market Analytics team, owning the evolution of internal AI agents and applications used daily by Sales, RevOps, and Customer Success.

$138,000–$230,000

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MicrosoftInternal deployment & tooling

Senior Software Engineer

Redmond, WA

Senior Software Engineer on Microsoft's Communications AI Lab, building and scaling AI-powered tools for internal communications teams.

$119,800–$261,000

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MastercardInternal deployment & tooling

Principal Software Engineer

O'fallon, MO

Principal-level individual contributor embedded within Mastercard Services as a forward deployed engineer, writing production code and accelerating delivery during critical spikes.

$170,000–$281,000

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RELXInternal deployment & tooling

Finance Systems AI/Automation Engineer

Dayton, OH · Raleigh, NC

Hands-on engineering role designing, building, and deploying AI-enabled automation and data solutions within Commercial and Corporate Finance at LexisNexis Legal & Professional.

$78,800–$131,300

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PerceptaInternal deployment & tooling

Product Engineer

New York, NYOn-site

Product Engineer building cross-customer products that turn forward-deployed delivery learnings into reusable tooling and agentic workflow infrastructure.

$300,000–$425,000

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X-energyInternal deployment & tooling

Engineer IV, AI & Digital Engineering

Rockville, MD · Gaithersburg, MDHybrid

Software Engineer IV on X-energy's AI Solutions Tiger Team, building production-ready AI-native applications, agentic workflows, and platform infrastructure to accelerate Xe-100 nuclear reactor development.

$180,000–$205,000

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GE AppliancesInternal deployment & tooling

Principal Applied AI Engineer

Louisville, KYRemote

Principal-level individual contributor on GE Appliances' digital innovation team, architecting and building AI agents and conversational systems for B2B/B2C contact center operations (voice, chat, messaging).

Pay range unavailable

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CoreWeaveCustomer adoption & accounts

Account Solutions Architect - Engaged

Austin, TX

CoreWeave's Field Engineering team is hiring an Account Solutions Architect to serve as the named technical partner for existing customers, driving platform adoption and expansion across CoreWeave's full AI stack (infrastructure, Models, Weave, observability, inference).

$182,000–$242,000

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Relativity SpaceInternal deployment & tooling

AI Software Engineer

Long Beach, CA

Build production AI applications and agents for engineers and operators across the Terran R rocket and automated factory lifecycle.

$115,000–$173,000

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RelativityInternal deployment & tooling

AI Software Engineer II

Long Beach, CA

AI Software Engineer II building production AI applications and agents for engineers and operators across an automated rocket factory and integrated launch platform.

$130,000–$196,000

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AnthropicInternal deployment & tooling

AI Operations Engineer, Partnerships

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Build and operate Claude-powered agentic workflows for Anthropic’s partner experience organization, integrating with partner portals, CRMs, enablement, finance, and database systems.

$215,000–$300,000

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Relativity SpaceInternal deployment & tooling

AI Software Engineer II

Long Beach, CA

AI Software Engineer II on Relativity Space’s Terrestrial Software team, building production AI applications and agents for engineers and operators across the rocket development and manufacturing lifecycle.

$130,000–$196,000

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SpaceXInternal deployment & tooling

Software Engineer (Starlink)

Hawthorne, CA

Software Engineer on the Starlink Enterprise team, focused on improving data quality across go-to-market systems and building integrations and AI agents (including MCP servers and Grok) to automate sales workflows.

$125,000–$175,000

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Scale AIInternal deployment & tooling

Software Engineer - AI Enablement

San Francisco, CA

Software Engineer joining a 0→1 AI Enablement team building full-stack agent-powered tools for internal workflows and eventual enterprise commercialization.

$180,000–$225,000

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Planet LabsInternal deployment & tooling

Software Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Software Engineer – Enterprise AI will build and operate Planet’s internal enterprise AI capabilities within Corporate Engineering, including production AI applications, agentic workflows, an AI Gateway, and an Agent Registry.

$144,500–$180,600

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RelativityInternal deployment & tooling

Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Infrastructure

Long Beach, CAHybrid

Staff engineer owning the reliability and evolution of a production agentic infrastructure stack spanning local LLM inference, inter-agent systems, parametric CAD, physical compute, and multi-site networking.

$181,000–$271,000

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ZscalerInternal deployment & tooling

AI Solutions Engineer, People & Culture

USRemote

The AI Solutions Engineer will lead the transformation of People & Culture into an AI-native HR function, building and operating governed agents from prototype through adoption.

$117,250–$167,500

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