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FDE and deployment 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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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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OpenAIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-NYC

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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H CompanyProduction engineering

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer - US

San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +1 moreHybrid

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at H Company, an enterprise agentic AI startup, responsible for deploying AI agents at customer sites, integrating with their systems, and feeding field learnings back into the product.

Pay range unavailable

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S32Production engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Palo Alto, CA

S32, a venture capital firm, seeks an experienced Forward Deployed Engineer to develop products with portfolio companies, driving their growth.

$170,000–$280,000

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AccentureProduction engineering

Palantir Forward Deployed Senior Engineer

Chicago, IL · Milwaukee, WI · +39 more

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

$80,400–$316,300

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FigmaProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYRemote

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer who embeds with strategic enterprise customers to solve complex adoption and integration challenges across codebases, design systems, developer environments, and workflows.

$153,000–$376,000

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RedpandaProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer - Western US

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer at Redpanda, embedded with strategic customers to build production-grade agents, integrations, and data pipelines on the Agentic Data Plane.

$194,400–$228,800

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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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IronsiteProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer at Ironsite, a construction-tech startup building an AI intelligence layer for physical-world projects.

$100,000–$160,000

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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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Assort HealthProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Own end-to-end technical deployments of production AI agents for health systems, from scoping and integrations through go-live and ongoing optimization.

$190,000–$240,000

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blockstreamProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Menlo Park, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with enterprise customer engineering teams to implement, integrate, deploy, and support Blockstream products in complex financial-institution environments.

Pay range unavailable

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Analog DevicesProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Jose, CA · Boston, MA

A hybrid software engineer and technical consultant who embeds within strategic customers to implement, customize, and scale ADI's AI and edge technology into real-world infrastructure.

$230,000–$316,250

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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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AnthropicProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · +1 moreHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineers embed with strategic enterprise customers to build and deploy production applications using Claude models, combining software engineering, LLM expertise, and customer-facing discovery.

$280,000–$320,000

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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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MonacoProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer on Monaco's Delta Force team, embedding with strategic customers to own ambiguous, high-stakes problems end-to-end—from discovery to live adoption.

$200,000–$400,000

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VoltaiProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · Atherton, CA · +1 moreHybrid

Voltai is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to deliver its AI platform for semiconductor and consumer electronics companies, owning customer deployments across the SF Bay Area and porting cloud features to on-prem environments.

Pay range unavailable

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SiftProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · Marina Del Rey, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer at Sift, bridging the company's telemetry platform with customer engineering teams in aerospace, defense, and autonomous systems.

$125,000–$175,000

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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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Luma AIProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

Redwood City, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineer at Luma AI: embed with customers, define problems, and build production systems on Luma's APIs and models.

$168,000–$252,000

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BackOps.aiProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Forward Deployed Engineer at BackOps AI, a supply-chain AI startup, to deploy adaptive AI agents into customer environments.

Pay range unavailable

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NeticProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Intern - 2026-2027

San Francisco, CAOn-site

This 12-week Forward Deployed Engineer internship involves building and deploying multimodal AI agents for essential-service businesses, working directly with enterprise customers to improve revenue and operations.

Pay range unavailable

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KognitosProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

USRemote

This Forward Deployed Engineer role sits at the intersection of engineering and customer success, embedding directly with enterprise customers to design, build, and ship automations on the Kognitos neurosymbolic AI platform.

Pay range unavailable

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AfreshProduction engineering

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer who alternates between embedding with enterprise grocery customers and building the reusable platform behind those deployments.

$156,060–$211,140

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