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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.

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IntercomProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Data Scientist

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deploy Data Scientists embed with strategic customers to design, implement, and scale enterprise Fin deployments that automate support and deliver measurable outcomes.

$206,600–$229,000

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IntercomProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer working at the intersection of applied AI, customer engineering, and product strategy for Fin’s most strategic customers.

$180,000–$200,000

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Retell AIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, New Grad

Redwood City, CAOn-site

Build and launch production voice AI solutions for enterprise customers while splitting time roughly evenly between coding and direct customer work.

$150,000–$250,000

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Applied IntuitionProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Sunnyvale, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Software Engineers own end-to-end delivery of high-stakes customer projects, integrating vehicle intelligence platforms into real-world operational environments.

$130,000–$200,000

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RampProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Forward Deployed

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Ramp, embedded in a customer-facing, agent-first team that solves complex problems for large enterprises.

$189,000–$330,000

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SitrepsProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector

Washington, DC · San Francisco, CAOn-site

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer for a venture-backed AI security company, helping public sector customers deploy AI evaluation, guardrail, and agent governance platforms in mission-critical environments.

$167,000–$203,000

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NuvoProduction engineering

New Grad Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY

This new grad Forward Deployed Engineer role combines software development with direct customer engagement to build, integrate, and optimize systems for wholesale commerce.

Pay range unavailable

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AccentureProduction engineering

Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer

Chicago, IL · Milwaukee, WI · +39 more

Forward Deployed Engineer role within Accenture's Palantir Business Group, deploying Palantir Foundry/AIP solutions for government, healthcare, energy, financial services, and manufacturing clients.

$54,400–$235,100

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AlexProduction engineering

Forward-Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward-Deployed Engineer owning the full lifecycle of customer deployments for an AI recruiting platform: designing workflows, building integrations with ATS and third-party systems, onboarding, and production support.

$150,000–$180,000

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-NYC

New York, NYHybrid

OpenAI is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to build and deploy AI systems for legal work, embedding with law firms and legal teams to identify high-value use cases, prototype solutions, and drive production adoption.

$185,000–$300,000

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H CompanyProduction engineering

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer - US

San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +1 moreHybrid

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at H Company, an enterprise agentic AI startup, responsible for deploying AI agents at customer sites, integrating with their systems, and feeding field learnings back into the product.

Pay range unavailable

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AccentureProduction engineering

Palantir Forward Deployed Senior Engineer

Chicago, IL · Milwaukee, WI · +39 more

Forward Deployed Senior Engineer within Accenture's Palantir Business Group, deploying Palantir Foundry/AIP solutions for government, healthcare, energy, financial services, and manufacturing clients.

$80,400–$316,300

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FigmaProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYRemote

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer who embeds with strategic enterprise customers to solve complex adoption and integration challenges across codebases, design systems, developer environments, and workflows.

$153,000–$376,000

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RedpandaProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer - Western US

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer at Redpanda, embedded with strategic customers to build production-grade agents, integrations, and data pipelines on the Agentic Data Plane.

$194,400–$228,800

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IronsiteProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer at Ironsite, a construction-tech startup building an AI intelligence layer for physical-world projects.

$100,000–$160,000

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Assort HealthProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Own end-to-end technical deployments of production AI agents for health systems, from scoping and integrations through go-live and ongoing optimization.

$190,000–$240,000

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blockstreamProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Menlo Park, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with enterprise customer engineering teams to implement, integrate, deploy, and support Blockstream products in complex financial-institution environments.

Pay range unavailable

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Analog DevicesProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Jose, CA · Boston, MA

A hybrid software engineer and technical consultant who embeds within strategic customers to implement, customize, and scale ADI's AI and edge technology into real-world infrastructure.

$230,000–$316,250

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AnthropicProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · +1 moreHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineers embed with strategic enterprise customers to build and deploy production applications using Claude models, combining software engineering, LLM expertise, and customer-facing discovery.

$280,000–$320,000

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MonacoProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer on Monaco's Delta Force team, embedding with strategic customers to own ambiguous, high-stakes problems end-to-end—from discovery to live adoption.

$200,000–$400,000

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VoltaiProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · Atherton, CA · +1 moreHybrid

Voltai is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to deliver its AI platform for semiconductor and consumer electronics companies, owning customer deployments across the SF Bay Area and porting cloud features to on-prem environments.

Pay range unavailable

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SiftProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · Marina Del Rey, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer at Sift, bridging the company's telemetry platform with customer engineering teams in aerospace, defense, and autonomous systems.

$125,000–$175,000

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Luma AIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Redwood City, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer at Luma AI: embed with customers, define problems, and build production systems on Luma's APIs and models.

$168,000–$252,000

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BackOps.aiProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Forward Deployed Engineer at BackOps AI, a supply-chain AI startup, to deploy adaptive AI agents into customer environments.

Pay range unavailable

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