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FDE and deployment jobs in Washington, DC 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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C3.aiProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, Federal

Redwood City, CA · Tysons, VA

Forward Deployed Engineer on C3 AI's Federal team, building full-stack AI applications on the C3 AI Platform for U.S. federal customers.

$120,000–$158,000

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SeekrProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Austin, TX · Reston, VAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineers embed with enterprise clients to operationalize and deploy production-grade AI systems across cloud, hybrid, on-premises, and customer-managed environments.

Pay range unavailable

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AccentureProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Data Engineer - Databricks

Arlington, VA · Washington, DC

Build and deploy end-to-end data and AI solutions on Databricks for federal clients, spanning scalable pipelines, applications, cloud infrastructure, and production operations.

$100,200–$243,100

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Scale AIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Public Sector

Austin, TX · Colorado Springs, CO · +4 moreHybrid

Forward-deployed software engineer embedded with U.S. government customers across military and intelligence organizations, owning AI application delivery from prototype through production.

$138,000–$292,560

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AccentureProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer - Palantir Foundry

Arlington, VA · Washington, DC

Forward Deployed Engineers deploy Palantir Foundry and build production-grade data and software solutions for U.S. federal clients across defense, supply chains, benefits, and government operations.

$126,300–$243,100

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GoviniProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Data Scientist

Arlington, VA · Pittsburgh, PARemote

Build and deploy scalable AI and data science solutions that turn proprietary and commercial datasets into actionable intelligence for government clients facing complex defense acquisition and national security challenges.

Pay range unavailable

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webAIProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Austin, TX · Washington, DCHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer for webAI's Public Sector team, building and optimizing production AI systems for secure, distributed, and edge environments.

Pay range unavailable

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DeepgramProduction engineering

Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer, Federal

Washington, DCRemote

Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer embedded with strategic federal customers, owning the full lifecycle of Voice AI deployments from discovery and proof-of-concept through production and optimization.

$180,000–$245,000

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GoviniProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Senior Data Scientist

Arlington, VA · Pittsburgh, PARemote

This senior data scientist role leads the end-to-end design, evaluation, and deployment of scalable AI/ML systems for complex defense acquisition and national security problems.

Pay range unavailable

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer, Gov

Washington, DC · Seattle, WA · +1 moreHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer embedding with defense, intelligence, and federal stakeholders to lead complex deployments of frontier AI models in production.

$145,800–$280,000

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GoviniProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Arlington, VA · Pittsburgh, PARemote

Forward Deploy​ed Software Engineers build differentiated 0-to-1 software capabilities directly with customers, owning discovery, prototyping, development, and iteration end to end.

Pay range unavailable

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PalantirProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Tactical Edge

Washington, DCOn-site

Forward Deployed Software Engineer on the Tactical Edge team, responsible for deploying and managing Palantir software across diverse hardware form factors in high-stakes, small-team environments.

$135,000–$200,000

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C3.aiProduction engineering

Federal Solution Leader

Tysons, VA

Senior, hands-on technical leader embedded with Federal, Defense, and Intelligence Community customers to architect, prototype, and deploy enterprise AI solutions in secure and classified environments.

$130,000–$167,000

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AndurilProduction engineering

Senior Front End Software Engineer, React

Arlington, VA

Senior frontend engineer on Anduril’s Discovery team, extending Lattice OS for command and control of complex assets, missile defense missions, networking, and remote asset management in far-edge environments.

$191,000–$253,000

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Booz AllenProduction engineering

Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer

Arlington, VA · Mclean, VA · +1 more

Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer supporting Booz Allen’s Defense Technology team by translating defense mission problems into Foundry architectures, ontologies, data pipelines, workflows, and decision-support applications.

$77,600–$176,000

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Scale AIProduction engineering

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Public Sector

Denver, CO · Honolulu, HI · +1 more

Own the architecture, production delivery, and evaluation of generative and agentic ML capabilities for mission-critical government systems, including Donovan and Thunderforge.

$235,200–$294,000

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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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Booz AllenProduction engineering

Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer

Arlington, VA

Forward Deployed Engineer on Booz Allen’s Defense Technology team who designs and delivers Palantir Foundry applications, ontologies, workflows, and production data pipelines for military and other mission stakeholders.

$77,600–$176,000

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AccentureProduction engineering

Agentic Identity Security Consultant

Irving, TX · Milwaukee, WI · +39 more

Forward Deployed Engineer role within Accenture Security's Identity and Access Management practice, focused on building agentic identity platforms for enterprises deploying AI agents.

$54,400–$205,800

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