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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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ServiceNowProduction engineering

Principal AI Forward Deployed Engineer

Santa Clara, CA

Principal customer-facing engineer leading the technical direction of ServiceNow’s CRM & Industry Forward Deployed Engineering group, designing and deploying agentic AI solutions for sales automation, CPQ, customer service, and field service.

$221,200–$387,100

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Wispr FlowProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineers own customer deployments from discovery through launch and adoption, partnering with engineering, IT, security, and business teams.

$180,000–$350,000

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RenderProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CARemote

Render's first Forward Deployed Engineer will provide hands-on technical partnership to strategic accounts and run onboarding intensives for high-growth AI startups.

$236,000–$289,000

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - SF

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineers lead end-to-end production deployments of frontier models for strategic customers, owning discovery, system design, implementation, and rollout.

$185,000–$300,000

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CloudflareProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Cloudflare seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to embed within a strategic global customer, writing production code and shaping architecture on the Cloudflare platform.

$194,000–$266,000

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AMDProduction engineering

Sr. Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Santa Clara, CAHybrid

This is a forward-deployed AI engineering role at AMD, focused on building and deploying production-grade AI systems for enterprise customers.

Pay range unavailable

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AccentureProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer Manager

Chicago, IL · Milwaukee, WI · +38 more

Forward Deployed Engineer Manager at Accenture: a customer-embedded engineering role designing, prototyping, deploying, and scaling production-grade AI solutions on platforms like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, SAP, and ServiceNow.

$80,400–$316,300

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DeepgramProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Strategic Accounts

New York, NY · San Francisco, CAOn-site

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer embedding with enterprise restaurant brands and technology partners to own end-to-end technical implementation of Deepgram's voice AI platform, from discovery through go-live and optimization.

$197,000–$246,000

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Apollo ResearchProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (Product)

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Own end-to-end deployment, integration, evaluation, and support for Watcher, a production coding-agent security product monitoring billions of agent tokens per month.

$222,000–$290,000

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Snorkel AIProduction engineering

Senior/Staff FDE - CUA

New York, NY · San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer focused on computer-use agents, partnering with AI labs and enterprises to deliver agentic-AI task environments, datasets, evaluators, and production solutions.

$180,000–$320,000

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AccentureProduction engineering

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Chicago, IL · Milwaukee, WI · +38 more

Forward-deployed AI engineer role at Accenture, embedded with enterprise clients to design, prototype, and scale production-grade AI workflows using LLMs and enterprise platforms.

$112,900–$366,300

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-SF

New York, NYHybrid

OpenAI is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to build and deploy AI systems for legal work, embedding with law firms and legal teams to identify high-value use cases, prototype solutions, and drive production adoption.

$185,000–$300,000

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AccentureProduction engineering

Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer -Assoc Director

Chicago, IL · Milwaukee, WI · +39 more

Forward Deployed Engineer role within Accenture's Palantir Business Group, deploying Palantir Foundry/AIP solutions for government, healthcare, energy, financial services, and manufacturing clients.

$138,800–$434,000

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ReplitProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Foster City, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer who embeds with strategic enterprise customers to architect, build, integrate, and deploy production applications and AI-powered workflows on Replit.

$180,000–$300,000

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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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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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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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GigaProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Senior individual contributor role anchoring a pod of Forward Deployed Engineers at an enterprise AI startup.

Pay range unavailable

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PostmanProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Backend)

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer building and operating production-grade backend and distributed systems for enterprise customers, including deployments in environments Postman does not control.

$220,000–$240,000

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P-1 AIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Mateo, CARemote

P-1 AI is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to serve as the technical lead for customer deployments of Archie, an AI engineer agent for physical-world design.

$170,000–$220,000

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AdobeProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Jose, CA

Senior Field Engineer embedded with Adobe's most strategic enterprise customers, operating inside autonomous cross-functional Customer Pods.

$159,200–$301,600

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Arize AIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed AI Engineer, West

San Francisco, CARemote

Forward-deployed, client-facing AI engineer partnering with enterprise teams to build and scale production GenAI observability and evaluation programs.

$155,000–$190,000

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OpenAI Deployment CompanyProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer - US

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer serving as a technical lead for high-stakes enterprise AI deployments, owning customer and business outcomes from problem definition through production.

$170,000–$400,000

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