$185,000–$230,000
Forward Deployed Engineer
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$180,000–$250,000 + equityRemote, hiring in OregonFull-time
The Forward Deployed Engineer partners directly with leading AI labs and enterprises to turn ambiguous research goals into production-grade AI systems.
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At a glance
Posted base pay
$180K–$250KAbove the median
Midpoint $215K · median $190K
Median $190K
This job$180K–$250KSenior FDE postings1,864 postings · middle 50% of posted pay$160K–$220KThe work
Builds what the customer runs
Balance Mostly building
Project stages
- Pre-sales (not covered)
- Proof of concept (not covered)
- Implementation
- Operations
Travel Required, amount not stated
- Coding
- Writes production code
- Builds for
- External customers
- Level
- Senior
- Role
- Individual contributor
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$220,000–$240,000 · OTE
$220,000–$245,000
What you’ll do
- Define research goals, technical requirements, and project direction with AI labs and enterprise partners
- Build data intelligence systems, ML pipelines, taxonomies, labeling systems, and quality frameworks
- Develop LLM applications including multi-agent systems, tool-using agents, RAG workflows, and evaluation harnesses
- Translate ambiguous AI problems into scoped technical projects and production systems
What you’ll bring
- Strong Python engineering experience building and shipping production systems end to end
- Experience with LLMs, agentic systems, multi-turn workflows, tool use, RAG, or AI automation
- Experience building or maintaining data pipelines, ML infrastructure, evaluation systems, or research workflows
- Strong understanding of data quality, taxonomy design, labeling workflows, and dataset curation for AI systems
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