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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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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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NuvoProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY

Forward Deployed Engineer at Nuvo, a B2B commerce platform, working directly with customers to design, integrate, and optimize mission-critical systems for wholesale commerce.

$135,000–$300,000

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ModalProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer - Systems

New York, NY · San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer partnering with leading AI companies and foundation labs to architect and deploy production infrastructure on Modal's serverless platform.

$180,000–$240,000

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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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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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TitanProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer - Financial Services

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Own end-to-end deployments of Titan's AI platform for financial-services clients, spanning environment discovery, policy mapping, implementation, migration, and ongoing strategic engagement ownership.

$175,000–$250,000

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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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ElizaProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY

Forward Deployed Engineer embedding with client teams to design and deliver production-ready AI/ML solutions, from LLM integrations to data pipelines and cloud infrastructure.

Pay range unavailable

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GigaProduction engineering

Senior / Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

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

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Exa (formerly Metaphor)Production engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineers own the path from cold outbound through production integration and closed deal, embedding with customer engineering teams to solve technical problems using Exa's API.

$130,000–$275,000

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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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BasetenProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed Engineers partner directly with customers to architect, build, deploy, and operate high-scale AI applications on Baseten.

$165,000–$330,000

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LMArenaProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer

SF Bay AreaHybrid

Applied AI Engineer serving as the technical point of contact for 5–15 AI model lab relationships, integrating models, running evaluations, and delivering results.

$150,000–$250,000

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Retell AIProduction engineering

Customer Success Engineer (Contract)

USRemote

This Mandarin-speaking Customer Success Engineer will help enterprise customers deploy, integrate, troubleshoot, and scale AI voice agents in production on a long-term 1099 contract.

$6,000–$7,500/mo

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AltaraProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Infrastructure engineer at an early-stage AI-for-physical-sciences startup in San Francisco, owning customer-hosted cloud deployments, incident response, and internal tooling.

Pay range unavailable

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MetaProduction engineering

Business Engineer

Austin, TX · Seattle, WA · +2 more

Meta's Business Engineering team seeks an entrepreneurial engineer to act as a technical advisor and solutions architect for Meta's advertising clients.

$118,000–$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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BainProduction engineering

Lead, AI Engineering

Atlanta, GA · Austin, TX · +8 moreHybrid

Lead AI Engineer role within Bain's AI, Insights & Solutions (AIS) team, designing and shipping generative AI and agentic systems for enterprise clients.

$179,500–$203,500

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MetaProduction engineering

Business Engineer, Business Agents

Menlo Park, CA · Seattle, WA · +2 more

Meta's Business Engineering team seeks a forward-deployed-style engineer to build next-gen AI products and drive business growth at scale.

$149,000–$210,000

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BainProduction engineering

Lead, Engineering Excellence

Atlanta, GA · Austin, TX · +8 moreHybrid

Lead engineering transformation for Bain's Vector, driving AI-assisted and AI-led maturity across clients' software development organizations.

$179,875–$203,925

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MetaProduction engineering

Partner Engineer, Content

Menlo Park, CA · New York, NY

Meta's Partner Engineering team seeks an entrepreneurial engineer to serve as the primary technical partner for strategic content partners integrating with Meta's platform APIs (Facebook, Instagram, Reels, Threads, Meta AI).

$149,000–$210,000

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AccentureProduction engineering

Snowflake Advanced AI Engineer,

San Francisco, CA · Milwaukee, WI · +39 more

Design, build, and operationalize AI/ML solutions for enterprise clients using Snowflake Cortex AI and related technologies.

$54,400–$205,800

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MetaProduction engineering

Solutions Architect, Business Agents

Seattle, WA · New York, NY · +1 more

Meta's Business Engineering team seeks a Solutions Architect to act as a forward-deployed technical expert, bridging sales and engineering to build AI-powered products for enterprise partners.

$130,000–$185,000

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GoogleProduction engineering

Staff Applied AI Agent Developer

New York, NY · Sunnyvale, CA · +1 more

Staff-level role embedded with strategic Google Cloud customers to design, build, and deploy custom conversational AI agents on Gemini Enterprise.

$207,000–$300,000

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