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BasetenProduction engineering

AI Inference Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer who partners directly with customers to architect, build, and deploy high-scale production AI applications on Baseten’s platform.

$165,000–$330,000

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Scale AIProduction engineering

Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYOn-site

Frontier Agent Engineers design, evaluate, and deploy production AI agents for enterprise customers, combining frontier models with retrieval, memory, structured knowledge, traditional ML, and enterprise software.

$180,000–$225,000

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SierraProduction engineering

Healthcare Integrations Architect

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Design and deliver healthcare integrations for Sierra’s AI agents, translating customer requirements into EHR interfaces, data flows, configuration, and go-live plans.

$150,000–$290,000

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StripeProduction engineering

Integration Engineer, Professional Services

Seattle, WA · San Francisco, CA · +1 more

Integration Engineer on Stripe’s new Forward Deployed Engineering team within Professional Services, building scalable Stripe integrations, standalone applications, and priority ecosystem features for strategic users.

Pay range unavailable

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StripeProduction engineering

Integration Engineer, Professional Services

US · city not listed

Integration Engineer on Stripe’s new Forward Deployed Engineering team within Professional Services, building scalable integrations, standalone applications, and priority features for strategic users.

Pay range unavailable

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Early Access Deployment Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

This role leads technical engagements with strategic customers during the earliest alpha stages of frontier AI capabilities, translating ambiguous model capabilities into scoped use cases and working prototypes.

$250,000–$330,000

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STRProduction engineering

Lead Mission Engineer - Full Stack

San Diego, CA · Denver, CO · +2 more

Lead full-stack mission engineering teams that build, integrate, deploy, and field-test operational software for military and government customers in secure environments.

$175,000–$240,000

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NVIDIAProduction engineering

NCX Senior Engineer

Santa Clara, CA · Seattle, WA · US remoteRemote

This role is a senior customer-facing engineer on NVIDIA's AI Accelerator team, responsible for deploying and optimizing AI workloads on NVIDIA Cloud Platforms (NCP, Neo, DGX Cloud) for strategic partners.

$184,000–$356,500

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Neo4jProduction engineering

Senior AI Solutions Architect

USRemote

Senior AI Solutions Architect in Neo4j’s Sales Engineering organization, leading strategic customer engagements that turn graph databases, knowledge graphs, LLMs, and generative-AI frameworks into production enterprise applications.

$200,000–$265,000

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STRProduction engineering

Lead Mission Engineer - Full Stack

San Diego, CA · Denver, CO · +2 more

Lead full-stack mission engineering for the Mission Applications Group, developing and deploying secure software systems that support real-world Department of Defense and Intelligence Community missions.

$175,000–$240,000

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WillowTreeProduction engineering

Senior Amazon Connect Application Architect

USRemote

Senior Amazon Connect Application Architect role combining solution architecture with hands-on engineering to design, build, and deploy complex Amazon Connect and AWS contact center solutions.

$152,618–$179,550

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer, Agent Enablement

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Applied AI Engineer building and operating secure agent-enablement integrations for strategic partners across web applications, connectors, APIs, CLIs, MCP servers, and developer tools.

$197,000–$280,000

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STRProduction engineering

Lead Mission Engineer - Full Stack

Denver, CO · San Diego, CA · +2 more

Lead full-stack mission engineering teams that build, integrate, deploy, and field-test software for real-world Department of Defense and Intelligence Community missions.

$175,000–$240,000

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AppianProduction engineering

Principal Consultant

Mclean, VAOn-site

Principal Technical Consultant leading post-sale delivery of custom Appian software and AI solutions for commercial clients across the full implementation lifecycle.

$100,000–$225,000

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AndurilProduction engineering

Senior Software Engineer, Discovery

Seattle, WA

Senior software engineer on Anduril’s Discovery team, building software-defined capabilities across cyber command and control, offensive cyber missions, networking, autonomy, and remote asset management in far-edge environments.

$191,000–$253,000

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NVIDIAProduction engineering

Senior Solutions Architect, Agentic AI

Santa Clara, CA · US remoteRemote

Senior Solutions Architect driving production-grade Agentic AI adoption at leading Enterprise ISVs on NVIDIA's accelerated computing platform.

$184,000–$287,500

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Booz AllenProduction engineering

Palantir Mission Integration Lead

Fayetteville, NC · Fort Belvoir, VA · +3 more

Lead full lifecycle software development within Palantir Foundry for U.S. government clients, combining hands-on engineering with team mentorship and stakeholder collaboration.

$99,000–$225,000

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AppianProduction engineering

Senior Consultant (Public Sector)

Denver, CO

Senior Consultant in Appian Customer Success delivering post-sales software and AI implementations on the Appian platform for public-sector customers.

$100,000–$200,000

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AndurilProduction engineering

Senior Software Engineer, Discovery

Washington, DC

Senior software engineer on Anduril’s Discovery team, incubating and maturing AI-native systems across cyber, networking, autonomy, robotics, and systems integration.

$191,000–$253,000

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NVIDIAProduction engineering

Engagement Tech Lead, Agentic AI

Santa Clara, CA · US remoteRemote

NVIDIA seeks an Engagement Tech Lead to drive integration of Generative and Agentic AI software with top Enterprise ISV partners.

$224,000–$431,250

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer, Plugins

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Applied AI Engineer responsible for taking strategic B2B plugins from concept through architecture, implementation, evaluation, launch, and ongoing maintenance across ChatGPT and Codex.

$197,000–$280,000

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AppianProduction engineering

Senior Consultant (Public Sector)

Atlanta, GA

Senior Consultant in Appian Customer Success delivering post-sales software and AI implementations on the Appian platform for public-sector customers.

$100,000–$200,000

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TitanProduction engineering

Solutions Architect

New York, NY · San Francisco, CAOn-site

Titan is seeking a Solutions Architect to own the technical design of client engagements for enterprise customers, bridging IT operations and the Titan AI platform.

Pay range unavailable

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AppianProduction engineering

Senior Technical Consultant

Madison, WI

Senior Technical Consultant in Appian Customer Success delivers post-sale software and AI solutions for commercial clients across the full project lifecycle, from process discovery and requirements through development, deployment, integrations, and adoption.

$100,000–$200,000

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LaunchDarklyProduction engineering

Solutions Architect, AI Focus

USRemote

LaunchDarkly seeks a Solutions Architect – AI to lead strategic Professional Services engagements, helping enterprise customers adopt and operationalize AI-powered applications using feature management, experimentation, and progressive delivery.

$129,900–$210,210

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AndurilProduction engineering

Senior Mission Software Engineer, EW

Costa Mesa, CA

Senior Mission Software Engineer on a new Electronic Warfare Mission Software Engineering team owning software across embedded interfaces, backend systems, deployment infrastructure, Lattice integration, and operator applications.

$191,000–$253,000

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FourKitesProduction engineering

Principal Engineer, Customer Engineering

Chicago, ILRemote

Principal Engineer serving as senior technical authority across Fortune 500 customer base, owning complex integration designs and AI-powered workflow implementations end-to-end.

$140,000–$170,000

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LaunchDarklyProduction engineering

Senior Solutions Architect, AI Focus

USRemote

LaunchDarkly seeks a Senior Solutions Architect to lead AI-focused Professional Services engagements, helping customers adopt and operationalize AI-powered applications using feature management, experimentation, and progressive delivery.

$145,000–$235,400

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Booz AllenProduction engineering

Data Engineer

Nellis Afb, NV

Build and maintain scalable data pipelines, ontologies, secure analytics ecosystems, and AI-enabled mission systems for clients operating in restricted or classified environments.

$61,900–$141,000

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