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Technical lead 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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C3.aiProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (Redwood City)

Redwood City, CA

Forward Deployed Engineer at C3 AI, building full-stack AI-driven enterprise applications on the C3 AI Platform, working directly with customers to design, develop, and deploy production applications, demos, and proofs-of-technology.

$120,000–$158,000

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AdobeProduction engineering

Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, Creative AI

San Jose, CA · New York, NY

Lead Forward Deployed Creative Technologist at Adobe, embedding with enterprise customers to build custom AI-powered creative workflows on top of Firefly Services and Workflow Builder.

$159,200–$301,600

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CollateProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Join the founding team of Collate's Forward Deployed Engineering group, partnering with Fortune 100 life sciences companies to deploy production AI systems for document and regulatory workflows.

$150,000–$300,000

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MiddeskProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for leading the architecture, deployment, and operation of complex customer-facing integrations and AI-driven systems.

$148,000–$255,000

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WarpProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NY · San Francisco, CARemote

The Founding Forward Deployed Engineer will own enterprise implementations of Warp's Oz programmable agent platform, from discovery and workflow architecture through production deployment and self-hosted execution.

$200,000–$250,000

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VercelProduction engineering

Forward-Deployed Engineer 

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

Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer in Professional Services, partnering hands-on with strategic enterprise customers on frontend modernization, large-scale Next.js migrations, performance optimization, and production AI adoption.

$137,000–$207,000

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VapiProduction engineering

Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

Forward-deployed engineering role owning enterprise voice AI deployments from scoping through production handoff while also shipping platform improvements.

$200,000–$280,000

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Scale AIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, GenAI

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineers build and deploy customer-specific GenAI data infrastructure end to end, spanning front-end applications, back-end systems, and large-scale architecture.

$179,400–$224,250

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Latent LabsProduction engineering

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

This role bridges Latent Labs' frontier generative biology models with pharma/biotech customers, owning the full deployment lifecycle from technical scoping to production-grade delivery.

Pay range unavailable

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Cursor (Anysphere)Production engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineers embed with customer engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and ship production-grade Cursor workflows, from discovery through post-production support.

Pay range unavailable

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depthfirstProduction engineering

Forward-Deployed Security Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

This role embeds with enterprise customers to deploy and operationalize depthfirst's AI security agents, building custom integrations and data pipelines.

Pay range unavailable

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ProfoundProduction engineering

Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed

New York, NY · San Francisco, CAOn-site

This forward-deployed full-stack engineering role serves as the technical bridge between Profound and Fortune 500 customers, combining production development, enterprise integrations, data pipelines, and client-facing architecture.

$140,000–$260,000

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, Gov

Washington, DC · Seattle, WA · +1 moreHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer embedding with defense, intelligence, and federal stakeholders to lead complex deployments of frontier AI models in production.

$145,800–$280,000

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NotionProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, GTM, AMER

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer on Notion’s Services team leading hands-on technical delivery for complex enterprise customer engagements.

$175,000–$240,000 · OTE

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DryftProduction engineering

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer operating equally across product engineering and customer deployments, turning manufacturing-operations complexity into scalable product features.

Pay range unavailable

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PulseProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer working directly with strategic customers to deploy Pulse in secure VPC and on-prem environments, integrate with enterprise systems, and take solutions into production.

$140,000–$200,000

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Retell AIProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Redwood City, CAOn-site

The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer delivers production voice AI systems for enterprise customers, leading projects from prototype through deployment and integrating Retell with customer tools.

$180,000–$300,000

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MetaProduction engineering

Business Engineer, Business Agents

Menlo Park, CA · Seattle, WA · +2 more

Meta's Business Engineering team seeks a forward-deployed-style engineer to build next-gen AI products and drive business growth at scale.

$149,000–$210,000

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BainProduction engineering

Lead, Engineering Excellence

Atlanta, GA · Austin, TX · +8 moreHybrid

Lead engineering transformation for Bain's Vector, driving AI-assisted and AI-led maturity across clients' software development organizations.

$179,875–$203,925

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GoogleProduction engineering

Staff Applied AI Agent Developer

New York, NY · Sunnyvale, CA · +1 more

Staff-level role embedded with strategic Google Cloud customers to design, build, and deploy custom conversational AI agents on Gemini Enterprise.

$207,000–$300,000

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SierraProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Agent (Spanish speaking)

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Build and own production-grade AI agents from pilot through deployment and continuous iteration, with direct responsibility for reliable systems that drive enterprise customer outcomes and revenue.

$180,000–$390,000

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