Skip to content
NEXTMOVEFDE careers · United States

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.

Browse companies →

Filters

Counts show jobs matching each option and your other filters. Select several options to match any of them.

Location (1)

Selected metros or remote. Remote jobs may have residency restrictions.

Location
Work arrangement
Work arrangement
Responsibility level

Our reading of the role, not the employer’s title. Junior: guided work; Mid: independent delivery; Senior: leads an ambiguous project through production; Staff+: leads across teams or projects.

Responsibility level
Individual contributor or manager (1)
Individual contributor or manager
Company stage
Company stage
Coding work
Coding work
Project stages
Project stages
Implementation share

Estimated from the job description, not measured working hours.

Implementation share
Who you build for
Who you build for
Visa sponsorship
Visa sponsorship
Company size
Company size
Salary

Matches the top of the listed range. Annualized USD; may include variable pay.

Required experience

Minimum required years at or below yours. The kind of experience still matters.

Filters applied

384 jobs

FDE roles first · Newer within each type

ProductboardTechnical pre-sales

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Productboard, an AI-first product management platform, embedded in the Go-To-Market team to drive technical sales, run proofs-of-concept, and feed customer insights back into product.

$133,100–$176,400

View job →

CommureImplementation & delivery

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Mountain View, CARemote

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for implementing customized technology solutions directly with healthcare clients, including deployment, integration, technical support, and documentation.

$180,000–$230,000

View job →

Arcade.devTechnical pre-sales

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Arcade is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to act as the technical authority in sales cycles, designing custom prototypes and reference architectures that demonstrate how their MCP runtime enables AI agents to take real-world actions.

$230,000–$300,000

View job →

StackAITechnical pre-sales

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed AI Engineer at StackAI (by Asana) to deploy enterprise-grade AI solutions with Fortune 500 clients, focusing on RAG pipelines and LLM workflows.

$153,000–$200,000

View job →

DossImplementation & delivery

Senior Forward Deployed Product Manager

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Senior Forward Deployed Product Manager owning end-to-end ERP implementation and post-sales success for 1–2 upper mid-market or enterprise customers, from discovery and process design through configuration, UAT, and go-live.

$150,000–$180,000

View job →

firecrawlImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer - Revenue

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Customer-facing forward deployed engineer responsible for making Firecrawl work inside high-value customer environments, from technical discovery and POCs through production deployment.

$190,000–$265,000

View job →

PromptQLImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Guide customers through their entire technical journey with PromptQL, from pre-sales technical validation to solution architecture, implementation, and ongoing customer success.

$180,000–$240,000

View job →

DossImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Product Manager

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward-deployed product manager owning end-to-end ERP implementation and post-sales success for 1–2 upper mid-market or enterprise customers.

$120,000–$150,000

View job →

EudiaDeployment strategy

Forward Deployed Lawyer

Palo Alto, CAOn-site

The Forward Deployed Lawyer partners with Fortune 500 customers to turn institutional legal knowledge and workflows into scalable, AI-powered solutions.

$180,000–$200,000

View job →

CommureImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer

Mountain View, CARemote

Forward Deployed Engineers collaborate directly with healthcare clients to implement and customize software solutions, providing technical support from deployment through production.

$130,000–$190,000

View job →

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

View job →

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

View job →

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

View job →

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

View job →

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

View job →

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

View job →

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

View job →

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

View job →

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

View job →

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

View job →

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

View job →

Fireworks AIDeployment strategy

AI Deployment Strategist

San Mateo, CAHybrid

AI Deployment Strategist owns the technical and commercial success of strategic enterprise accounts building production workloads on Fireworks' inference platform, from pilot scoping and deployment through adoption, renewals, and expansion.

$165,000–$200,000

View job →

MixpanelImplementation & delivery

Delivery Engineer II (GTM)

San Francisco, CARemote

Own post-sales onboarding, implementation, and data health for a portfolio of primarily SMB and scaled Mixpanel accounts, typically taking projects from kickoff to go-live over 30–90 days.

$108,500–$146,500

View job →

AccentureImplementation & delivery

Reinvention Deployed Engineer

New York, NY · Milwaukee, WI · +39 more

Accenture AWS Business Group seeks a Reinvention Deployed Engineer to design, deploy, and operate custom web applications on AWS, Azure, and on-premises infrastructure.

$80,400–$316,300

View job →

LambdaImplementation & delivery

Technical Success Engineer

San Francisco, CA · San Jose, CAHybrid

Own the technical delivery of signed deployments for Lambda’s largest and most strategic customers, taking GPU cloud environments from contract through onboarding and into stable production.

$214,000–$285,000

View job →

NVIDIAImplementation & delivery

Senior Solutions Architect, Physical AI Cloud

Santa Clara, CARemote

NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Solutions Architect to help enterprises deploy and accelerate Physical AI workloads—robotics simulation, synthetic data generation, training, and inference—at scale.

$152,000–$287,500

View job →

ServalImplementation & delivery

Automation Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Automation Engineer builds AI agents and end-to-end automations directly in enterprise customer environments, integrating systems and converting operational processes into deployable workflows.

$105,000–$170,000

View job →

Neo4jImplementation & delivery

Consulting Engineer

San Mateo, CARemote

As a Consulting Engineer at Neo4j, you will partner with enterprise customers to design and implement graph-powered solutions across the full project lifecycle, from design to production.

Pay range unavailable

View job →

Employer postings · Data from · Sources

Related job searches

Know which FDE roles to pursue

Get your shortlist, with reasons to apply and gaps to address.

Free · PDF or DOCX

No account needed. Your resume stays private.