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AppenProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

USRemote

The Forward Deployed Engineer owns the design, deployment, and optimization of GenAI data solutions for enterprise clients, spanning engineering, data operations, and client delivery.

$150,000–$200,000

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Diligent CorporationProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NYHybrid

Build and deploy production-grade AI agents for complex governance, risk and compliance workflows at major enterprise customers, including global banks and regulated corporates.

$130,000–$170,000

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AccentureProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer - Palantir Foundry

Arlington, VA · Washington, DC

Forward Deployed Engineers deploy Palantir Foundry and build production-grade data and software solutions for U.S. federal clients across defense, supply chains, benefits, and government operations.

$126,300–$243,100

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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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PhysicsXProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Software Engineer

New York, NYHybrid

This role builds and deploys applications powered by PhysicsX's physics AI models to solve high-complexity engineering problems for customers in aerospace, defense, energy, and other advanced industries.

$150,000–$250,000

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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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PalantirProduction engineering

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

New York, NYHybrid

Forward Deployed AI Engineer at Palantir, embedded with customers to own Gen AI strategy and implementation, building production LLM workflows at scale.

$135,000–$200,000

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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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StripeProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, Privy

New York, NY

Forward Deployed Engineer serving as the primary technical owner for building and deploying new capabilities with Privy’s most important customers.

$190,400–$285,600

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Scale AIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Public Sector

Austin, TX · Colorado Springs, CO · +4 moreHybrid

Forward-deployed software engineer embedded with U.S. government customers across military and intelligence organizations, owning AI application delivery from prototype through production.

$138,000–$292,560

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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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AdonisProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NYHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for leading discovery and production deployments with enterprise healthcare customers, reporting to the Head of Data Platforms.

$190,000–$210,000

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GoviniProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Data Scientist

Arlington, VA · Pittsburgh, PARemote

Build and deploy scalable AI and data science solutions that turn proprietary and commercial datasets into actionable intelligence for government clients facing complex defense acquisition and national security challenges.

Pay range unavailable

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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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GoviniProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Arlington, VA · Pittsburgh, PARemote

Forward Deploy​ed Software Engineers build differentiated 0-to-1 software capabilities directly with customers, owning discovery, prototyping, development, and iteration end to end.

Pay range unavailable

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webAIProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Austin, TX · Washington, DCHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer for webAI's Public Sector team, building and optimizing production AI systems for secure, distributed, and edge environments.

Pay range unavailable

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GovWellProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Software Engineer

New York, NYHybrid

Forward Deployed Software Engineer embedded in complex municipal enterprise deals, owning technical blockers, legacy migrations, and customer deployments from feasibility through launch.

$200,000–$300,000

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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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