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Compare current US jobs, responsibilities, locations and advertised pay. Includes forward deployed engineering and related deployment roles.

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RingCentralProduction engineering

Founding AI Forward Deployed Engineer

USRemote

Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer for RingCentral's AIR Pro agentic AI platform, owning end-to-end deployments of production voice/digital agents inside enterprise customer environments.

$147,700–$215,000

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DatabricksProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

Austin, TX

Databricks seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead customer-facing technical projects, owning architecture and end-to-end delivery of production-grade data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

$182,000–$250,208

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MicrosoftProduction engineering

Principal Software Engineer - FDE

US · city not listed

Principal Software Engineer on Microsoft's Frontier Company Engineering team, working in a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) model embedded directly with enterprise customers.

$142,800–$304,200

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DatabricksProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

Chicago, IL

Databricks seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with enterprise customers, owning architecture and delivering production-grade data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

$182,000–$250,208

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MicrosoftProduction engineering

Senior Software Engineer - FDE

US · city not listed

Senior Software Engineer on Microsoft's Frontier Company Engineering team, working in a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) model embedded directly with enterprise customers to solve complex problems and ship production-ready solutions in days.

$119,800–$261,000

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Deloitte USProduction engineering

Google Forward Deployed Engineer - GPS

Multiple US offices

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer role within Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice, focused on rapidly prototyping and delivering GenAI-enabled solutions for government clients.

$134,500–$265,100

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DatabricksProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NY

Databricks seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead customer engagements, architecting and delivering production-grade data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

$182,000–$250,208

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BasetenProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (Training)

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineers own technical outcomes for major AI customers, acting as the technical lead across model inference, post-training, deployment, and production operations.

$200,000–$400,000

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NarmiProduction engineering

Software Engineer - Forward Deployed

New York, NYHybrid

Narmi is hiring a Forward Deployed Software Engineer to join a small, high-impact team that works directly with community financial institutions to build features and configure the platform for their specific needs.

$91,000–$110,000

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DatabricksProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

USRemote

Customer-facing, billable Forward Deployed Engineer at Databricks who owns architecture and leads end-to-end delivery of production data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

$182,000–$250,208

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NarmiProduction engineering

Senior Software Engineer - Forward Deployed

New York, NYHybrid

Narmi's Forward Deployed Engineering team is a small, high-impact group that embeds with community financial institutions to build custom features and prototypes on Narmi's digital banking platform.

$167,000–$196,000

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DatabricksProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Databricks is hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to work hands-on with enterprise customers, architecting and delivering production-grade data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

$182,000–$250,208

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Take2 AIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NYHybrid

Take2 AI is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to design, launch, and improve AI Interviewers for healthcare recruiting customers.

$150,000–$200,000

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DatabricksProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

US · city not listed

This is a hands-on, customer-facing role at Databricks where you own architecture and lead design decisions to build and productionize end-to-end data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

$182,000–$250,208

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Deloitte USProduction engineering

Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer - GPS

Multiple US offices

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice seeks a Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with federal, state, and local government clients, rapidly prototyping and delivering GenAI-enabled solutions.

$134,500–$265,100

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BambooHRProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

UTHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at BambooHR, owning the full customer engagement cycle for SMB customers—from discovery to deployed AI-powered solutions.

Pay range unavailable

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Deloitte USProduction engineering

Senior Anthropic Forward Deployed Engineer - GPS

Multiple US offices

Senior Anthropic Forward Deployed Engineer within Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice, embedding with federal/state/local clients to rapidly prototype and deliver GenAI solutions using Anthropic's Claude platform.

$155,600–$306,800

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - SF

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Own end-to-end technical deployment of OpenAI models within healthcare organizations (payers, providers, health systems, health tech), from discovery through productionization and handoff.

$185,000–$300,000

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AvePointProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer - AI

Arlington, VA

The Forward Deployed Engineer (AI) embeds with enterprise clients to advise on AI trust, governance, security, and compliance while independently scoping, building, and delivering production AI solutions.

$180,000–$230,000

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GradialProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Seattle, WA

The Forward Deployed Engineer leads full-stack implementations of Gradial’s AI platform for enterprise customers, translating complex marketing and content workflows into scalable generative systems.

$130,000–$210,000

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Blank MetalProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Minneapolis, MNHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at an AI-native engineering firm, leading client engagements from scoping to production deployment.

Pay range unavailable

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