Compare current US jobs, responsibilities, locations and advertised pay. Includes forward deployed engineering and related deployment roles.
FDE roles first · Newer within each type
PalantirProduction engineering
New York, NYHybrid
Palantir's original Forward Deployed Software Engineer role embeds engineers directly with customers to solve high-stakes problems using data and AI.
$135,000–$200,000
View job →VercelProduction engineering
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
View job →GleanProduction engineering
USRemote
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Glean, a Work AI platform.
$160,000–$270,000
View job →VapiProduction engineering
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
View job →Invisible TechnologiesProduction engineering
New York, NYHybrid
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer leading end-to-end AI-powered systems for clients, from workflow discovery and architecture through deployment and iteration.
$250,000–$300,000
View job →Maven AGIProduction engineering
USRemote
Own post-sale technical implementation for strategic enterprise customers, taking customer-support workflows from ambiguous requirements through integrations, AI-agent configuration, testing, launch, and early production success.
$160,000–$190,000
View job →SmartsheetProduction engineering
USRemote
Senior Principal Forward Deployed AI Engineer leading Smartsheet’s most complex enterprise AI deployments from discovery through production handoff.
$235,000–$315,000
View job →DatabricksProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for architecting and delivering production-grade data, AI, and application solutions directly with enterprise customers.
$182,000–$250,208
View job →Invisible TechnologiesProduction engineering
New York, NYHybrid
Principal engineer on the Forward Deployed Engineering team, building production-grade ML and agentic AI systems across backend infrastructure, cloud operations, and model deployment.
$209,000–$300,000
View job →Strider TechnologiesProduction engineering
VAHybrid
Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for embedding with government and commercial customers, translating mission needs into deployed software, and integrating Strider’s platform with diverse data and IT systems.
Pay range unavailable
View job →GoviniProduction engineering
Arlington, VA · Pittsburgh, PARemote
This senior data scientist role leads the end-to-end design, evaluation, and deployment of scalable AI/ML systems for complex defense acquisition and national security problems.
Pay range unavailable
View job →DatabricksProduction engineering
Los Angeles, CA
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for architecting and delivering production-grade data and AI systems for strategic customers in Communications, Media, Entertainment & Games.
$182,000–$250,208
View job →Invisible TechnologiesProduction engineering
New York, NYHybrid
Staff-level forward-deployed engineer building and operating production ML and agentic AI systems across backend, cloud infrastructure, and data-processing layers.
$209,000–$300,000
View job →Latent LabsProduction engineering
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
View job →ValthosProduction engineering
New York, NYOn-site
Valthos is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed directly with national security agencies, national laboratories, and pharmaceutical companies, deploying their biological AI platform.
Pay range unavailable
View job →DatabricksProduction engineering
Dallas, TX
Senior customer-embedded engineer responsible for architecting and delivering production-grade data, AI, and application systems on the Databricks platform.
$182,000–$250,208
View job →Cursor (Anysphere)Production engineering
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
View job →DeepgramProduction engineering
Washington, DCRemote
Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer embedded with strategic federal customers, owning the full lifecycle of Voice AI deployments from discovery and proof-of-concept through production and optimization.
$180,000–$245,000
View job →ClarionProduction engineering
New York, NYOn-site
Forward Deployed Engineer at an early-stage healthcare AI startup in NYC.
$150,000–$200,000
View job →DatabricksProduction engineering
Chicago, IL
Senior, customer-facing Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for architecting and delivering production-grade data and AI systems for communications, media, entertainment, and games customers.
$182,000–$250,208
View job →TaktileProduction engineering
New York, NYHybrid
Lead Forward Deployed Engineer at Taktile, an AI-native decision platform for financial institutions.
$240,000–$290,000
View job →depthfirstProduction engineering
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
View job →Tribe AIProduction engineering
USRemote
Forward Deployed AI Engineer embedded with enterprise clients to build and deploy production AI systems.
Pay range unavailable
View job →DatabricksProduction engineering
Boston, MA
Senior customer-embedded engineer responsible for architecting and delivering production-grade data, AI, and application systems on the Databricks platform.
$182,000–$250,208
View job →TaktileProduction engineering
New York, NYHybrid
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Taktile, a fast-growing AI decisioning platform for financial institutions.
$175,000–$265,000
View job →Sema4.aiProduction engineering
Atlanta, GAHybrid
Forward Deployed Engineer role at an enterprise AI agent platform startup.
Pay range unavailable
View job →AuctorProduction engineering
New York, NYOn-site
Forward Deployed Engineers own end-to-end engineering projects for strategic customers, building custom integrations, enterprise workflows, and agentic systems across the stack.
$175,000–$290,000
View job →DatabricksProduction engineering
New York, NY
Senior, customer-embedded engineer responsible for architecting and delivering production-grade data, AI, and application systems on the Databricks platform.
$182,000–$250,208
View job →sprucesystemsProduction engineering
USRemote
Principal-level forward deployed engineer leading technical strategy and delivery for state government digital identity deployments.
$200,000–$225,000
View job →reflection.aiProduction engineering
New York, NYOn-site
Leads end-to-end post-training and evaluation for open-weight LLMs deployed to enterprise and sovereign customers, spanning synthetic data, reward modeling, reinforcement learning, evaluation, and production deployment.
Pay range unavailable
View job →ProfoundProduction engineering
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
View job →DatabricksProduction engineering
Washington, DC
Leads customer-embedded delivery of production-grade data, AI, and application systems on the Databricks platform, owning architecture and end-to-end implementation.
$182,000–$250,208
View job →sprucesystemsProduction engineering
USRemote
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at SpruceID, a digital identity infrastructure company, working directly with state governments and public-sector partners to design, build, and deploy identity solutions.
$150,000–$175,000
View job →PointOneProduction engineering
New York, NYOn-site
Forward Deployed Engineer at an AI legal-tech startup, working directly with law firm customers to drive adoption and build novel AI products.
$140,000–$225,000
View job →OpenAIProduction engineering
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
View job →DatabricksProduction engineering
Denver, CO
Senior, customer-embedded Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for architecting and delivering production-grade data, AI, and application solutions on the Databricks platform.
$182,000–$250,208
View job →NotionProduction engineering
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
View job →DryftProduction engineering
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
View job →PulseProduction engineering
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
View job →DatabricksProduction engineering
Mountain View, CA
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for architecting and delivering production-grade data, AI, and application systems directly with enterprise customers.
$182,000–$250,208
View job →Employer postings · Data from · Sources
Get your shortlist, with reasons to apply and gaps to address.
Free · PDF or DOCX
No account needed. Your resume stays private.
