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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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OpenAIImplementation & delivery

Partner Applied AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

Partner Applied AI Engineer serving as the technical lead for systems integrators and strategic enterprise customers, guiding GenAI initiatives from use-case discovery and prototyping through production deployment and scale.

$197,000–$278,000

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CollateImplementation & delivery

Senior Enterprise Implementation Manager

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Own the full customer journey for enterprise life-sciences clients from deal close to go-live, designing onboarding, configuring the AI platform, and driving adoption.

$141,000–$200,000

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VercelImplementation & delivery

Solutions Architect

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

Solutions Architect in Vercel’s Field Engineering team spanning enterprise pre-sales and post-sales, from technical discovery and architecture design through proofs of concept, onboarding, migrations, and adoption.

$190,000–$340,000 · OTE

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AnthropicDeployment strategy

Technical Deployment Lead

Austin, TX · Boston, MA · +3 moreHybrid

Technical Deployment Lead for the Claude Agentic Solutions team, owning end-to-end delivery of custom AI agent deployments for enterprise customers in highly regulated industries.

$275,000–$380,000

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Fundamental Research LabsDeployment strategy

Solutions Architect

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Fundamental Research Labs seeks a Solutions Architect to bridge customers, engineering, and product, guiding Fortune 100 enterprises from early discovery through production deployment of NEXUS, a large tabular model for predictive analytics.

Pay range unavailable

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DecagonDeployment strategy

Senior Agent Product Manager

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Senior individual contributor role owning the end-to-end delivery, adoption, and expansion of AI agent solutions for Decagon’s largest Fortune 500 accounts.

$200,000–$285,000

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SierraImplementation & delivery

Deployed Infrastructure Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Founding Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of Sierra AI platform deployments across enterprise customer environments.

$230,000–$390,000

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DustImplementation & delivery

Solutions Engineer Post-Sales

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYOn-site

Post-Sales Solutions Engineer serving enterprise customers as their technical partner, leading implementations, integrations, workshops, and high-value AI workflows that drive adoption, retention, and expansion.

Pay range unavailable

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Cognition AIImplementation & delivery

Partner Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Partner-facing technical role responsible for enabling Global Systems Integrators to deploy, scale, and deliver value with Devin across many customers.

Pay range unavailable

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Distyl AIDeployment strategy

AI Strategist (All Levels)

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

AI Strategists lead end-to-end customer engagements, partnering with technical leads and teams of engineers and researchers to identify high-value AI opportunities, deliver reliable systems, and drive user adoption.

$150,000–$250,000

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David AIDeployment strategy

Deployment Strategist

San Francisco, CAOn-site

David AI is hiring a Deployment Strategist to serve as a trusted partner to customers on critical audio AI initiatives, shaping strategy and guiding their approach to audio training.

$145,000–$175,000

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ReplitImplementation & delivery

Field Engineer

Foster City, CA · New York, NYRemote

Enterprise/Strategic Field Engineer serving Replit’s largest accounts across the full customer lifecycle, from complex technical presales and live application building through production onboarding, adoption, expansion, and retention.

$150,000–$220,000

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Distyl AITechnical pre-sales

Enterprise AI Architect

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

The Enterprise AI Architect is a senior individual contributor who owns the technical relationship with strategic Fortune 500 customers, from opportunity shaping and feasibility through architecture, SOW quality, and delivery oversight.

$200,000–$275,000

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NscaleInternal deployment & tooling

Foundry Engineering Lead

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

The Foundry Engineering Lead owns the architecture, development, governance, security, and evolution of Nscale’s Palantir Foundry data platform.

Pay range unavailable

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recall.aiInternal deployment & tooling

Founding Internal Products Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Found the first dedicated internal-products engineer who will define the function, own its roadmap, and build company-wide workflows starting with sales and finance.

$215,000–$215,000

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AnthropicTechnical pre-sales

Applied AI, Research Engineer

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

Applied AI Research Engineer connecting frontier model and product development with customer adoption, Sales, and go-to-market delivery.

$300,000–$400,000

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Scale AIInternal deployment & tooling

Staff Network Engineer, App Platform

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

Own the network architecture and standards for Scale’s enterprise GenAI platform across a large, multi-cloud fleet of Kubernetes environments, including customer-controlled and regulated deployments.

DecagonInternal deployment & tooling

AI Acceleration Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Decagon is hiring an AI Acceleration Engineer to build internal systems and drive AI adoption across the company, focusing on finance, billing, and revenue operations.

$180,000–$220,000

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EverlawInternal deployment & tooling

GTM AI Engineer

Oakland, CAHybrid

Senior GTM AI Engineer at Everlaw, owning the multi-year GTM AI technical roadmap and building an intelligence platform that optimizes Sales, Sales Ops, Marketing, and Customer Success.

$154,000–$213,000

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ALSOInternal deployment & tooling

Senior Staff Deployment Strategist, Operations

Palo Alto, CAOn-site

Senior Staff Deployment Strategist to build ALSO's operations OS for manufacturing and delivery—from contract manufacturer production to customer door—replacing spreadsheets with scalable systems.

$170,000–$225,000

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RobinhoodInternal deployment & tooling

Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Build

Menlo Park, CAHybrid

Senior Software Engineer on a small Enterprise Build team that converts AI-generated prototypes from Finance, HR, Legal, and Compliance into secure, production-grade enterprise services.

$130,000–$195,000

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SamsaraInternal deployment & tooling

Finance & Strategy AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Samsara's Finance & Strategy team seeks a technical builder to own the data foundation and AI roadmap for finance, transforming fragmented financial data from NetSuite, Workday, Adaptive, and Salesforce into a modern Databricks foundation.

$146,370–$246,000

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PrologisInternal deployment & tooling

Senior AI Automation Engineer

San Francisco, CA · Denver, CO

Senior AI Automation Engineer at Prologis, driving AI adoption across Digital Experience Technology and operational teams.

$124,000–$171,000

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PerplexityInternal deployment & tooling

Legal and Operations Engineering Lead

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Leads the architecture and delivery of a Legal and Operations Engineering platform that automates high-volume workflows across contracting, e-discovery, governance, vendor onboarding, and litigation management.

$150,000–$250,000

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GongInternal deployment & tooling

GTM AI Architect

Austin, TX · Chicago, IL · +3 more

Founding hire on Gong's new AI Acceleration Team inside GTM Strategy & Operations.

$138,000–$210,000

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Block (Square)Internal deployment & tooling

Legal Systems Architect

San Francisco, CA

Legal Systems Architect leading the architecture, integration, and evolution of systems supporting Block’s global Legal organization.

$145,400–$257,600

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WaymoInternal deployment & tooling

AI Enablement Lead

Mountain View, CAHybrid

Lead AI enablement across Waymo's G&A functions, acting as a domain authority to drive adoption of generative AI and agentic systems.

$200,000–$247,000

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ZooxInternal deployment & tooling

Lead AI Engineer – Enterprise Data & AI

Foster City, CAHybrid

Lead the design and deployment of enterprise GenAI/LLM applications and agentic workflows at Zoox, integrating data sources across corporate functions like Procurement, Supply Chain, Legal, Finance, HR, and Manufacturing.

Pay range unavailable

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