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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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ZiplineInternal deployment & tooling

Supply Chain Business Operations Manager, AI Strategy

South San Francisco, CAOn-site

Zipline seeks a Supply Chain Business Operations Manager to own AI strategy and execution, translating operational pain points in supplier management, material planning, inventory, sourcing, and manufacturing into production-grade AI-assisted workflows.

$147,800–$285,200

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PalantirInternal deployment & tooling

Embedded Legal Engineer

Palo Alto, CAHybrid

Embedded software engineer working inside Palantir's Legal Team to automate high-touch legal workflows using Palantir platforms and AI/LLMs.

$100,000–$145,000

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Samba TVInternal deployment & tooling

AI GTM Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Samba TV is building an AI-native revenue organization and seeks an AI GTM Engineer to architect and operate multi-agent systems that connect Salesforce, Gong, Slack, Snowflake, and proprietary TV data into unified workflows.

Pay range unavailable

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Distyl AIDeployment team leadership

AI Engineer, Enterprise Lead

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

This senior technical leadership role owns the success of complex enterprise AI deployments across major customer engagements or portfolios of accounts.

$200,000–$250,000

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DatabricksInternal deployment & tooling

Staff Fullstack Engineer, Agentic Applications

Mountain View, CA

Staff Fullstack Engineer serving as the technical anchor for Databricks' People Technology pod, architecting an AI-native platform for HR, recruiting, workforce analytics, and employee experience.

$192,000–$260,000

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RoboForceInternal deployment & tooling

Lead AI Native Engineer

Milpitas, CAOn-site

Lead the hands-on architecture and production deployment of RoboForce’s vertical agents and shared agent foundation, reporting directly to the co-founder.

Pay range unavailable

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RingCentralInternal deployment & tooling

Enterprise AI Product Engineer

Belmont, CAOn-site

RingCentral's Enterprise AI organization seeks a hybrid AI Product Engineer who combines product instinct, architecture depth, and hands-on engineering skill.

$127,400–$182,000

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CoreWeaveCustomer adoption & accounts

Account Solution Architect

San Francisco, CA

The Account Solution Architect is the named technical partner for existing AI customers, driving adoption, expansion, production workload success, and executive-to-engineering relationships across CoreWeave’s infrastructure and AI platform.

$143,000–$210,000

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OpenAIInternal deployment & tooling

Capacity Systems Software Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Build the software platforms, backend services, data systems, and automation that give OpenAI’s Industrial Compute organization a unified view of capacity planning, fleet health, demand, deployment readiness, financial planning, and product consumption.

$293,000–$385,000

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GustoInternal deployment & tooling

Agentic Operations Architect

Denver, CO · New York, NY · +2 moreHybrid

The Agentic Operations Architect owns reusable patterns, standards, governance, and tooling that enable teams to build reliable agentic customer-service workflows faster and more safely.

$168,420–$247,369

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Scale AIInternal deployment & tooling

Staff Software Engineer, Public Sector

San Francisco, CA · Saint Louis, MO · +2 more

Staff Software Engineer leading architecture and implementation of agentic capabilities for federal customers, including guardrails, explainability, fleet orchestration, and real-time processing of federal datasets.

$188,800–$362,000

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CrusoeInternal deployment & tooling

Senior Systems Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Senior Systems Engineer responsible for executing Crusoe’s 2026 Enterprise AI Strategy by designing agentic AI systems that automate workflows across enterprise platforms.

$190,000–$230,000

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GustoInternal deployment & tooling

Enterprise Application AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · San Jose, CA · +3 moreHybrid

Enterprise Applications AI Engineer leading the integration of AI, automation, and agentic workflows across Gusto’s internal enterprise systems.

$185,000–$250,000

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AppleInternal deployment & tooling

GenAI Solutions Architect, Customer Systems

Sunnyvale, CA

Apple's Support Engineering GenAI Solutions team seeks a hands-on Solutions Architect to lead design and implementation of GenAI applications (LLMs, RAG, Agents) for customer systems, primarily automating contact center use cases.

Pay range unavailable

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Mariana MineralsInternal deployment & tooling

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Senior full-stack engineer leading architecture and end-to-end delivery of internal software systems for engineering, construction, and operation of mineral processing facilities.

$150,000–$220,000

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BenbaseInternal deployment & tooling

Founding Engineer

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · US remoteRemote

Founding engineer role at Benbase, a benefits brokerage scaling its trusted advisor model.

Pay range unavailable

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NeticCustomer adoption & accounts

Deployment Strategist

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Deployment Strategist owning strategic accounts for an AI revenue engine serving essential service businesses.

Pay range unavailable

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