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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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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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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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PVMProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Huntsville, ALOn-site

Forward-deployed technical leader responsible for architecting and delivering secure Palantir implementations for government missions in national security, readiness, and space.

Pay range unavailable

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reflection.aiProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, Lead - AI Engineer

New York, NYOn-site

Leads Reflection’s Forward Deployed Engineering function within the AI Solutions team, owning technical strategy and delivery of complex agentic applications from pre-sales discovery through production.

Pay range unavailable

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CollateProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Join the founding team of Collate's Forward Deployed Engineering group, partnering with Fortune 100 life sciences companies to deploy production AI systems for document and regulatory workflows.

$150,000–$300,000

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Credal.aiProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Brooklyn, NYOn-site

Embed directly with high-stakes enterprise customers (healthcare, tech, robotics) to deliver critical outcomes and improve the core AI agent platform.

$140,000–$220,000

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Cursor (Anysphere)Production engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

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

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depthfirstProduction engineering

Forward-Deployed Security Engineer

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

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AuctorProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

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

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ProfoundProduction engineering

Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed

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

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PointOneProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

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

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NotionProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, GTM, AMER

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

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DryftProduction engineering

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

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

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PulseProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

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

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Retell AIProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Redwood City, CAOn-site

The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer delivers production voice AI systems for enterprise customers, leading projects from prototype through deployment and integrating Retell with customer tools.

$180,000–$300,000

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Hitachi EnergyProduction engineering

Federal Data Engineer

Washington, DCOn-site

The Federal Data Engineer is the technical lead for customer-facing enterprise data engineering and professional services engagements supporting federal customers.

$160,000–$205,000

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MercorProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Applied AI

New York, NYOn-site

Software Engineer, Applied AI will build, deploy, and operate production systems connecting frontier AI research with data delivery.

$160,000–$500,000

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Axon EnterpriseProduction engineering

Mission Engineer - Atlanta

Atlanta, GAOn-site

Embedded technical owner for a strategic law-enforcement account in Atlanta, accountable for end-to-end outcomes across Axon's ecosystem.

Pay range unavailable

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SierraProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Agent (Spanish speaking)

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Build and own production-grade AI agents from pilot through deployment and continuous iteration, with direct responsibility for reliable systems that drive enterprise customer outcomes and revenue.

$180,000–$390,000

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Applied IntuitionProduction engineering

Robotics Integration Engineer (TL)

Sunnyvale, CAOn-site

This is a tech lead role on Applied Intuition's Industrials team, owning the full hardware/software platform for autonomous heavy machinery in construction, mining, and agriculture.

$180,000–$210,000

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PerceptaProduction engineering

Founding Applied AI Engineer - Data

New York, NYOn-site

Founding member of Percepta's data team, spanning data engineering, data science, and ML engineering to turn messy enterprise data into AI-ready assets inside customer environments.

$150,000–$400,000

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FlipProduction engineering

Staff Software Engineer 

Marina Del Rey, CA · Williamsburg, NYOn-site

Staff Software Engineer reporting to the CTO, building and operating an orchestrated voice-agent platform that handles millions of live contacts daily while expanding into chat.

$200,000–$400,000

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