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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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SiftProduction engineering

Application Software Engineer

Marina Del Rey, CA · San Francisco, CAHybrid

Application Software Engineer working at the intersection of Sift’s high-frequency telemetry platform and complex customer engineering challenges.

$125,000–$175,000

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SierraProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Agent - Healthcare

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Build and operate production AI agents for healthcare payers, providers, and healthcare platforms, covering benefits, billing, scheduling, intake, and patient access.

$180,000–$390,000

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LMArenaProduction engineering

Product Solutions Engineer

SF Bay AreaHybrid

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

$150,000–$250,000

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Latent LabsProduction engineering

Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI

San Francisco, CAHybrid

This role bridges frontier generative models and pharma/biotech customers, requiring deep ML expertise to deploy, adapt, and optimise models in production environments.

Pay range unavailable

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FactoryProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Deployed

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Software Engineer, Deployed leads end-to-end implementation of Factory’s AI platform in customer engineering environments, reporting directly to the CEO and serving as the primary technical lead for high-impact engagements.

Pay range unavailable

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DecagonProduction engineering

Agent Deployment Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Own end-to-end technical delivery of enterprise AI agent deployments, from architecture and integrations through evaluation and production launch.

$175,000–$230,000

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CartesiaProduction engineering

Enterprise Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

The Enterprise Engineer builds and owns production-grade infrastructure for agentic voice AI deployments in demanding enterprise environments, including customer-managed and on-premises systems.

$180,000–$250,000

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NooksProduction engineering

Senior Software Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior Software Engineer to build AI agents for the Agent Studio product, automating 90% of SDR non-calling work.

$215,000–$300,000

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TavusProduction engineering

Customer Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

The Customer Engineer splits time between hands-on customer integration support and building SDKs, prototypes, sample apps, and platform enhancements.

Pay range unavailable

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Applied ComputeProduction engineering

Applied Research Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Applied Research Engineers own enterprise customer engagements end-to-end, from understanding proprietary data and workflows through training, deploying, and improving AI agents.

$200,000–$320,000

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Cognition AIProduction engineering

Applied AI Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Applied AI Engineer responsible for deploying Cognition’s Devin across enterprise engineering organizations, embedding with teams to implement agentic workflows, drive adoption, and quantify productivity impact.

$180,000–$225,000

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OpenAIProduction engineering

Full Stack Software Engineer, Gov

Washington, DC · San Francisco, CA · +1 moreHybrid

Build and deploy full-stack ChatGPT and OpenAI API capabilities for public sector customers across on-premises and cloud environments.

$207,000–$385,000

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Eloquent AIProduction engineering

AI Engineer, Agent

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Build, deploy, and optimize enterprise-grade AI agents for high-stakes financial workflows at a seed-stage startup.

Pay range unavailable

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Brain Co.Production engineering

Machine Learning Engineer, Applied AI

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Build and own applied ML systems end-to-end, taking ambiguous institutional problems from data and evaluation design through reliable production deployment.

Pay range unavailable

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UncountableProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Implementations

New York, NY · San Francisco, CARemote

Build production-grade integrations between Uncountable's platform and the instruments, systems, and data workflows used by enterprise R&D labs.

$90,000–$110,000

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Fireworks AIProduction engineering

Applied Machine Learning Engineer

San Mateo, CAHybrid

This hands-on Applied Machine Learning Engineer role bridges AI research and customer-facing application delivery, covering model development, fine-tuning, deployment, and platform engineering.

$170,000–$240,000

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SierraProduction engineering

Software Engineer, Agent

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Build and operate production-grade AI agents for enterprise customers across finance, healthcare, commerce, telecommunications, and media.

$180,000–$390,000

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Brain Co.Production engineering

AI Product Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

This AI Product Engineer role involves building and deploying AI-powered software solutions for governments and large enterprises, working directly with customers to develop product specs from scratch.

Pay range unavailable

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Ode with AnthropicProduction engineering

Bring Your Own Engineering Team

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

Ode with Anthropic is hiring existing engineering teams of 2-5 engineers to join as a unit, working on frontier AI projects for enterprise clients.

Pay range unavailable

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AccentureImplementation & delivery

AI Architect - FDE Associate Director

New York, NY · Milwaukee, WI · +40 more

Leads enterprise-grade Agentic AI architecture across public, private, and sovereign clouds, from client strategy and reference architecture through production deployment.

$62,800–$218,800

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CloudflareDeployment team leadership

Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

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

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IntercomDeployment strategy

Senior Forward Deployed Product Manager

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed Product Manager owning outcomes for strategic enterprise customers deploying Fin, from evaluation and solution design through configuration, launch, and expansion.

$199,800–$222,000

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Goodfire AIImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Research Scientist

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward-deployed research scientist applying mechanistic interpretability techniques directly with customers to investigate advanced models and solve novel, high-stakes problems.

$220,000–$315,000

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ChalkDeployment strategy

Forward Deployed Strategist

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Strategist owns the technical direction of Chalk's customer integrations, working alongside sales, delivery, and support to advise on architecture, design solutions on Chalk, and scope POCs.

$180,000–$250,000

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AntithesisImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer

Washington, DC · San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer at Antithesis, embedding with customers to get their systems running on the deterministic-simulation testing platform, then feeding insights back into product development.

SG$150,000–SG$225,000

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Expedia GroupInternal deployment & tooling

Principal AI Forward Deployed Engineer

Seattle, WA · San Jose, CA

Principal-level forward-deployed AI engineer embedded within Expedia Group's business units to identify high-value AI opportunities, translate ambiguous business problems into measurable outcomes, and own the full lifecycle from prototyping to production and adoption.

$231,000–$398,500

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Assort HealthDeployment team leadership

Head of Forward Deployed Engineering

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

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AltaraDeployment strategy

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Altara is a seed-stage AI startup building a scientific intelligence platform for physical-world industries (semiconductors, batteries, advanced materials, aerospace).

Pay range unavailable

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ChalkDeployment team leadership

Director, Forward Deployed Engineering

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

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