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.
FDE roles first · Newer within each type
AccentureProduction engineering
New York, NY · Milwaukee, WI · +40 more
Senior AI engineering role focused on designing, deploying, and operating enterprise-grade agentic systems across cloud-native client environments.
$112,900–$302,400
View job →GigaProduction engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer serving as the technical interface and project leader for Giga’s San Francisco customer engagements.
$180,000–$400,000
View job →AccentureProduction engineering
Atlanta, GA · Milwaukee, WI · +41 more
A production engineering role embedded inside client enterprises to secure AI systems in real, complex environments.
$112,900–$366,300
View job →AccentureProduction engineering
Atlanta, GA · Milwaukee, WI · +41 more
A Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Accenture is a production engineer embedded inside client enterprises to secure AI systems in real, complex environments.
$80,400–$305,000
View job →GoogleDeployment team leadership
San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +2 more
Manages a GenAI forward-deployed engineering team that codes, debugs, and deploys bespoke agentic AI solutions in customer environments.
$262,000–$364,000
View job →CloudflareDeployment team leadership
Austin, TX · New York, NY · +1 moreHybrid
Leads Cloudflare’s Forward Deployed Engineering function within the Developer GTM organization, managing Solution Architects who support strategic customer opportunities and drive developer-platform pipeline and revenue.
$234,000–$310,000
View job →C3.aiDeployment team leadership
Redwood City, CAOn-site
Senior Director leading the Americas Forward Deployed Engineering organization at C3 AI, reporting to the VP of FDE.
$250,000–$350,000
View job →Assort HealthDeployment team leadership
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Head of Forward Deployed Engineering responsible for building production AI-agent systems for Assort Health’s largest and most complex healthcare customers, including health-system deployments, custom EHR integrations, and workflow implementations.
$210,000–$300,000
View job →ChalkDeployment team leadership
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYOn-site
Chalk is hiring a Director of Forward Deployed Engineering to lead and scale its FDE team across New York and San Francisco.
$300,000–$350,000
View job →AMDDeployment team leadership
San Jose, CA
This is a senior executive role (CVP) leading AMD's Field Deployment Engineering (FDE) organization, responsible for building and scaling a team that covers the full customer deployment lifecycle for massive GPU clusters.
Pay range unavailable
View job →Amazon (incl AWS)Deployment team leadership
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +6 more
This role leads a pod of Forward Deployed Engineers embedded within strategic enterprise customers, owning delivery execution, engineering quality, and team development.
$184,900–$287,700
View job →RipplingDeployment team leadership
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Lead a team of Forward Deployed Engineers at Rippling, delivering customized, high-impact implementations for enterprise customers.
$138,000–$230,000
View job →ID.meDeployment team leadership
Mclean, VA · Mountain View, CA · +2 moreOn-site
Manage a small team of forward-deployed engineers embedded with customers, translating real-world integration problems into actionable technical requirements for product ontology and engineering teams.
$154,000–$275,000
View job →Mesh PaymentsDeployment team leadership
New York, NY · San Francisco, CAHybrid
Head of Forward Deployed Engineering at Mesh Payments, a new function reporting to the CTO.
$282,000–$355,000
View job →Amazon (incl AWS)Deployment team leadership
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +6 more
This is a senior engineering management role leading 15-30+ engineers across multiple enterprise customer engagements in AWS's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) practice.
$220,100–$342,300
View job →AmigoDeployment team leadership
New York, NYOn-site
Lead the Forward Deployed Engineering and Deployment Strategist teams at a clinical AI infrastructure startup, owning end-to-end delivery outcomes across major health systems, life sciences, payors, and government entities.
$300,000–$500,000
View job →VercelDeployment team leadership
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +1 moreHybrid
Director of Forward Deployed Engineering responsible for building Vercel’s Forward Deployed Engineering and Professional Services function from the ground up.
$240,000–$300,000
View job →DatadogDeployment team leadership
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Lead the Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) function for Datadog for Startups, defining and scaling the operating model, building a catalog of deployment offerings, and driving field feedback into product roadmap.
$200,000–$250,000
View job →Amazon (incl AWS)Deployment team leadership
Mountain View, CA · San Diego, CA · +8 more
Leads a 15–30+ person forward-deployed engineering organization across multiple strategic enterprise customer programs, owning delivery models, technical standards, production excellence, and talent strategy.
$220,100–$342,300
View job →Cursor (Anysphere)Deployment team leadership
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Lead and scale the Forward Deployed Engineering team at Cursor, managing 6-8 FDEs working on strategic enterprise accounts.
Pay range unavailable
View job →LabelboxDeployment team leadership
SF Bay Area
Leads and develops the Forward Deployed Engineering team responsible for translating customer data goals into pipelines, measurement, instructions, and quality outcomes for AI programs.
$190,000–$250,000
View job →AdobeDeployment team leadership
San Jose, CA
Lead a team of Forward Deployed Creative Technologists as a hands-on player-coach, embedding with enterprise customers to build custom AI-powered creative workflows on Adobe Firefly Services.
$147,900–$293,250
View job →BasetenDeployment team leadership
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Engineering Manager and player-coach leading Forward Deployed Engineers who build, scale, and optimize production LLM inference workloads for customers.
$260,000–$380,000
View job →DossDeployment team leadership
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Head of Forward Deployed Services will own post-sales delivery for Doss’s largest and most complex customers while building the processes and capabilities needed to scale into upper mid-market and enterprise.
Pay range unavailable
View job →Snorkel AIDeployment team leadership
New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · US remoteRemote
Director-level player-coach leading a forward deployed research team serving frontier AI labs with training-data strategy, RL environments, evaluation frameworks, and technical solution design.
$228,000–$403,200
View job →IntercomDeployment team leadership
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Leads the Forward Deployed Engineering New Business team responsible for winning and delivering complex enterprise AI deployments, including seven-figure opportunities.
$252,000–$280,000
View job →Snorkel AIDeployment team leadership
New York, NY · San Francisco, CAHybrid
Head of Forward Deployed Engineering will build and lead Snorkel’s DaaS FDE organization, owning scalable workflows and quality across expert-built training and evaluation data pipelines.
$268,800–$403,000
View job →Snorkel AIDeployment team leadership
New York, NY · San Francisco, CAHybrid
Leads and builds Snorkel AI’s Forward Deployed Engineering function within its Data-as-a-Service organization, owning the technical systems, pipelines, workflows, and quality frameworks behind large-scale dataset production.
$200,000–$320,000
View job →IronsiteDeployment team leadership
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Leads Ironsite's Field Applications engineering organization across forward-deployed engineering and mobile/device software.
$200,000–$300,000
View job →TuringDeployment team leadership
Palo Alto, CA · San Francisco, CA · +1 moreOn-site
Staff Research Engineer owning the full lifecycle of large-scale reinforcement learning environments for frontier AI labs and enterprise clients, from design and task generation through reward verification, quality, and delivery.
$250,000–$400,000 · OTE
View job →SkydioInternal deployment & tooling
San Mateo, CAHybrid
Lead the design and development of Skydio's GTM platform as a hands-on engineering leader, owning technical architecture while writing production code.
$230,000–$303,000
View job →MercorDeployment team leadership
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYOn-site
Lead the forward-deployed engineering team for Mercor's Enterprise AI platform, deploying production-grade AI systems for Fortune 500 customers.
$300,000–$520,000
View job →OrbDeployment team leadership
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid
Lead a distributed team of Implementation Architects owning the technical post-sales journey for Orb's billing platform, from kickoff to go-live.
$155,000–$225,000
View job →AnthropicDeployment team leadership
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid
Leads a hands-on Applied AI Engineering team deploying Claude for Life Sciences across strategic pharma and biotech partners, from discovery through clinical and regulatory workflows.
$320,000–$405,000
View job →NooksDeployment team leadership
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Nooks is building Agent Studio, an AI that autonomously handles 90% of non-calling SDR work.
Pay range unavailable
View job →ServalDeployment team leadership
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Deployment Leader responsible for building Serval’s deployed software engineering function and owning implementations of its AI platform for strategic enterprise customers.
$250,000–$400,000
View job →Scale AIDeployment team leadership
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY
Manages a forward-deployed engineering team that integrates Scale AI’s models and agents into strategic enterprise customers’ production environments.
$252,000–$315,000
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