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Sea12Production engineering

Forward Deployed Software Engineer

New York, NYOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer at Sea12 Technologies, working on-site with enterprise customers in manufacturing, logistics, and construction to apply AI solutions to real-world operational challenges.

Pay range unavailable

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ElizaProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY

Forward Deployed Engineer embedding with client teams to design and deliver production-ready AI/ML solutions, from LLM integrations to data pipelines and cloud infrastructure.

Pay range unavailable

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Exa (formerly Metaphor)Production engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineers own the path from cold outbound through production integration and closed deal, embedding with customer engineering teams to solve technical problems using Exa's API.

$130,000–$275,000

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HappyRobotProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Chicago, ILHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer combining full-stack development with customer engineering for deployments of HappyRobot’s AI platform.

$120,000–$200,000

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BasetenProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineers partner directly with customers to architect, build, deploy, and operate high-scale AI applications on Baseten.

$165,000–$330,000

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ChalkProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NYOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer building bespoke feature pipelines and technical integrations for Chalk customers across healthcare, finance, and recommendation systems.

$170,000–$280,000

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EYProduction engineering

Cyber - AI Engineer - Senior - Consulting

New York, NYRemote

Senior Consultant-level forward-deployed Cyber AI Engineer delivering frontier AI security solutions for clients from prototype through production.

$104,800–$218,500

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AndurilProduction engineering

Senior Mission Software Engineer

Lexington, MA

Senior Mission Software Engineer responsible for the end-to-end health, uptime, and evolution of deployed imaging systems running on edge-compute devices in austere environments.

$191,000–$253,000

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Retell AIProduction engineering

Customer Success Engineer (Contract)

USRemote

This Mandarin-speaking Customer Success Engineer will help enterprise customers deploy, integrate, troubleshoot, and scale AI voice agents in production on a long-term 1099 contract.

$6,000–$7,500/mo

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Booz AllenProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer

Fort Meade, MD

Applied AI Engineer building and operating secure, end-to-end AI/ML pipelines for national security mission systems.

$99,000–$225,000

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AndurilProduction engineering

Senior Front End Software Engineer, React

Arlington, VA

Senior frontend engineer on Anduril’s Discovery team, extending Lattice OS for command and control of complex assets, missile defense missions, networking, and remote asset management in far-edge environments.

$191,000–$253,000

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NextGen Federal SystemsProduction engineering

Application/Agentic AI Engineer

Aberdeen, MDHybrid

Build and deploy agentic AI applications on the ReadiChat platform for mission-focused operational workflows, spanning agent design, orchestration, testing, integration, and sustainment across cloud, edge, and hybrid environments.

Pay range unavailable

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Booz AllenProduction engineering

Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer

Arlington, VA · Mclean, VA · +1 more

Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer supporting Booz Allen’s Defense Technology team by translating defense mission problems into Foundry architectures, ontologies, data pipelines, workflows, and decision-support applications.

$77,600–$176,000

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PhysicsXProduction engineering

Data Scientist

New York, NYHybrid

Data Scientist in PhysicsX’s Delivery team, building production-ready data science solutions for engineering and physics challenges alongside simulation engineers, machine learning engineers, and customers.

$120,000–$240,000

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LMArenaProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer

SF Bay AreaHybrid

Applied AI Engineer serving as the technical point of contact for 5–15 AI model lab relationships, integrating models, running evaluations, and delivering results.

$150,000–$250,000

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SBT GlobalProduction engineering

Sr. AI DevOps Developer

Plano, TXOn-site

Senior AI DevOps role focused on designing, deploying, and supporting enterprise AI agents and Generative AI solutions for consumer electronics and retail clients.

Up to $120,522

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Booz AllenProduction engineering

Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer

Arlington, VA

Forward Deployed Engineer on Booz Allen’s Defense Technology team who designs and delivers Palantir Foundry applications, ontologies, workflows, and production data pipelines for military and other mission stakeholders.

$77,600–$176,000

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CapgeminiProduction engineering

Agentic AI Engineer

Atlanta, GA · Nashville, TNHybrid

Capgemini is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement agentic AI solutions on Google Cloud Platform, using Vertex AI Agent Builder, ADK, and MCP to automate complex business workflows.

$68,911–$161,544

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Booz AllenProduction engineering

Agentic AI Developer

San Antonio, TX · Austin, TX

Build and operate secure agentic AI applications for a defense client using Booz Allen’s Agent Foundry platform in AWS.

$99,000–$225,000

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AltaraProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Infrastructure engineer at an early-stage AI-for-physical-sciences startup in San Francisco, owning customer-hosted cloud deployments, incident response, and internal tooling.

Pay range unavailable

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EYProduction engineering

Advanced Forward Engineering - Data Engineer - Senior

Atlanta, GAHybrid

Senior Data Engineer embedded in EY’s Advanced Forward Engineering delivery pods, owning production-ready data for AI-native systems deployed in regulated tax, finance, and risk environments.

$106,900–$200,600

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AccentureProduction engineering

AI/ML Computational Science Engineer

Chicago, ILOn-site

Design, build, and operationalize AI/ML solutions for enterprise clients, spanning the full lifecycle from problem formulation to production deployment.

$46,700–$162,000

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MetaProduction engineering

Business Engineer

Austin, TX · Seattle, WA · +2 more

Meta's Business Engineering team seeks an entrepreneurial engineer to act as a technical advisor and solutions architect for Meta's advertising clients.

$118,000–$176,000

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Deloitte USProduction engineering

Agentic AI Engineer — Healthcare AI

Multiple US offices

Deloitte's new AI-first healthcare initiative, backed by $1B, is building LLM/SLM-powered agentic systems to rebuild decision-making across payers, providers, and life sciences.

$110,700–$372,900

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AccentureProduction engineering

Agentic Identity Security Consultant

Irving, TX · Milwaukee, WI · +39 more

Forward Deployed Engineer role within Accenture Security's Identity and Access Management practice, focused on building agentic identity platforms for enterprises deploying AI agents.

$54,400–$205,800

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BainProduction engineering

Lead, AI Engineering

Atlanta, GA · Austin, TX · +8 moreHybrid

Lead AI Engineer role within Bain's AI, Insights & Solutions (AIS) team, designing and shipping generative AI and agentic systems for enterprise clients.

$179,500–$203,500

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MetaProduction engineering

Partner Engineer, Content

Menlo Park, CA · New York, NY

Meta's Partner Engineering team seeks an entrepreneurial engineer to serve as the primary technical partner for strategic content partners integrating with Meta's platform APIs (Facebook, Instagram, Reels, Threads, Meta AI).

$149,000–$210,000

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