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Technical pre-sales 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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GreptileTechnical pre-sales

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Forward Deployed Engineer partnering with sales and customers to tailor Greptile across complex software stacks, lead technical pilots, and unblock security and procurement.

$140,000–$220,000

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Deep InfraTechnical pre-sales

Forward Deployed Engineer

Palo Alto, CA

DeepInfra is hiring its first Forward Deployed Engineer to own the technical win for enterprise AI inference deals end-to-end, from first call to production.

$150,000–$195,000

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QuadricTechnical pre-sales

Forward Deployed Engineer

Burlingame, CARemote

Forward Deployed Engineer owning the technical path from customer evaluation to design win for Quadric's Chimera GPNPU, a novel unified architecture for neural network, DSP, and control code.

Pay range unavailable

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ProductboardTechnical pre-sales

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Productboard, an AI-first product management platform, embedded in the Go-To-Market team to drive technical sales, run proofs-of-concept, and feed customer insights back into product.

$133,100–$176,400

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Arcade.devTechnical pre-sales

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Arcade is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to act as the technical authority in sales cycles, designing custom prototypes and reference architectures that demonstrate how their MCP runtime enables AI agents to take real-world actions.

$230,000–$300,000

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StackAITechnical pre-sales

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

San Francisco, CAHybrid

Forward Deployed AI Engineer at StackAI (by Asana) to deploy enterprise-grade AI solutions with Fortune 500 clients, focusing on RAG pipelines and LLM workflows.

$153,000–$200,000

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Distyl AITechnical pre-sales

Enterprise AI Architect

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

The Enterprise AI Architect is a senior individual contributor who owns the technical relationship with strategic Fortune 500 customers, from opportunity shaping and feasibility through architecture, SOW quality, and delivery oversight.

$200,000–$275,000

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AnthropicTechnical pre-sales

Applied AI, Research Engineer

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

Applied AI Research Engineer connecting frontier model and product development with customer adoption, Sales, and go-to-market delivery.

$300,000–$400,000

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LangChainTechnical pre-sales

Deployed Engineer (Early Career- SF)

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Deployed Engineers co-architect, build, deploy, and operate production AI agents directly with customer engineering teams, spanning pre-sales evaluations through post-sale advisory work.

$160,000–$175,000 · OTE

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AnthropicTechnical pre-sales

Applied AI Architect, Cyber

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

This customer-facing Applied AI role helps large enterprises use Claude for production cybersecurity workloads, from application security and penetration testing to alert triage and threat intelligence.

$240,000–$315,000

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LangChainTechnical pre-sales

Deployed Engineer (Bay Area)

San Francisco, CAOn-site

Hands-on customer-facing engineer partnering with companies to co-architect, deploy, and operate production AI agents using the LangChain suite.

$165,000–$315,000 · OTE

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AnthropicTechnical pre-sales

Applied AI Architect, Commercial

San Francisco, CA · New York, NYHybrid

Applied AI Architect, Commercial is a customer-facing pre-sales role that helps priority enterprise accounts integrate and deploy Claude through technical discovery, architecture, prototyping, evaluation, and production adoption.

$240,000–$315,000

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