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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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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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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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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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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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SierraProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Agent - Insurance

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Build and operate production-grade AI agents for insurance and broader financial-services customers, owning the full Agent Development Life Cycle from pilot through deployment and continuous iteration.

$180,000–$390,000

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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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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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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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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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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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SalientProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Product

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Software Engineer, Product responsible for owning end-to-end customer implementations of Salient’s Voice AI Agent solution and building customer-driven features into the core product.

$140,000–$200,000

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MercorProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Enterprise Applied AI

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYOn-site

Build and deploy production software for Mercor's Enterprise team, embedding with customers to translate ambiguous business needs into integrations, workflows, and scalable AI-powered systems.

$145,000–$285,000

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DecagonProduction engineering

Agent Deployment Engineer

New York, NYOn-site

Own end-to-end delivery of enterprise AI agent deployments, from architecture and integration through evaluation and production launch.

$175,000–$230,000

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Gallatin AIProduction engineering

Mission Operations Engineer

Austin, TXOn-site

Mission Operations Engineer on Gallatin's Field Engineering team, responsible for deploying the Navigator AI defense logistics platform across strategic public-sector accounts.

Pay range unavailable

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WyetechProduction engineering

Software Engineer 3

MDOn-site

Senior analytic developer supporting federal mission analytics and target discovery, partnering closely with analysts and mission stakeholders.

Pay range unavailable

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TransluceProduction engineering

AI Behavior Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Transluce seeks an AI Behavior Engineer to design and run behavioral evaluations of frontier AI systems, working directly with policymakers, civil society, and frontier labs.

$310,000–$500,000

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CGS Federal (Contact Government Services)Production engineering

FSR Engineer

Miami, FLOn-site

The FSR Engineer is a mid-level, customer-embedded engineer responsible for deploying and operating a production-grade distributed data and application platform in mission-critical environments.

Pay range unavailable

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer, Cyber, Government

Washington, DCOn-site

Applied AI Engineer embedded with government and national security customers, building secure AI-powered cyber capabilities from discovery and prototyping through evaluation and operational deployment.

$211,000–$302,000

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WyetechProduction engineering

Software Engineer 3

Fort Meade, MDOn-site

Senior AI Engineer supporting the Technology Trending Solutions mission, designing, developing, and deploying governed AI and analytics solutions for sensitive federal environments.

Pay range unavailable

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LangChainProduction engineering

Deployed Architect, Professional Services (NYC)

New York, NYOn-site

Deployed Architect on LangChain's Professional Services team, responsible for designing and deploying secure, highly available AI infrastructure and production-grade agent systems for enterprise customers.

$170,000–$215,000

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PerceptaProduction engineering

Embedded Research Scientist

New York, NYOn-site

Embedded Research Scientists advance frontier AI research directly within customer environments, translating research in LLM post-training, reinforcement learning, agentic modeling, and specialized architectures into production systems.

$180,000–$400,000

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CGS Federal (Contact Government Services)Production engineering

FSR Engineer

US · city not listedOn-site

This mid-level Field Service Representative Engineer deploys and operates a production-grade data and application platform in customer-facing, on-site mission-critical environments.

Pay range unavailable

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GoviniProduction engineering

Software Engineer

Pittsburgh, PAOn-site

Software Engineer on a Pittsburgh-based engineering team building and deploying software and data solutions for clients in highly regulated environments.

Pay range unavailable

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MercorProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Applied AI

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Software Engineer on Mercor’s Applied AI team building and operating production systems between frontier AI research and data delivery.

$160,000–$500,000

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