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Roboflow

Posted 9 hours ago

Forward Deployed Engineer

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Nousresearch

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Forward Deployed Engineer

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Prolific

Posted 23 hours ago

Forward Deployed Researcher

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Nebius
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$180K – $224K / year
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Nebius
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Cursor
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OpenAI
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Chalk

Posted 3 days ago

Forward Deployed Engineer

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Career context

Engineers who make AI work inside real companies

Forward deployed engineers (FDEs) sit with customers and turn an AI platform into working solutions: integrating data and systems, building agents and workflows, debugging in production and feeding what they learn back to the product team. The role was popularised by Palantir and is now one of the fastest-growing jobs at AI labs and AI startups.

It suits engineers who like both code and people: you scope problems with customers, build quickly, and own the outcome. The roles below come from AI companies' own career pages.

Cost to apply Always free
First interview 1–3 weeks
Placement fee Zero
Salary range Shown upfront
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Every role on RemoteAI is an AI specialist position. No noise, no irrelevant listings from unrelated industries.

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Always free for candidates

Creating a profile, applying, and getting hired costs nothing. No placement fee, no revenue percentage, no exclusive contracts.

Salary shown upfront

Every listing shows compensation range before you apply. No wasted interviews with companies outside your range.

Fully remote positions

Every role is remote. Some require timezone overlap — the listing will specify. Filter by region if that matters to you.

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Step by step

How to find a forward deployed engineer job on RemoteAI

FDE roles pay like senior software engineering, often with travel or customer-site expectations. Each listing shows the employer's published range and location rules.

01

Show end-to-end delivery

A project you scoped with a user, built, deployed and supported. FDE interviews test the whole loop.

02

Prove you can integrate

APIs, data pipelines, auth, legacy systems — most FDE work is connecting the AI to what customers already have.

03

Apply on the employer's page

Check location and travel expectations on each listing.

Profile guide

How to stand out as a forward deployed engineer

Not all profiles get responses. These are the signals that separate candidates who get interviews from those who don't.

Customer communication

Explaining trade-offs to non-engineers and turning vague needs into specs.

Fast full-stack building

Prototypes in days: backend, a simple UI, data plumbing.

LLM and agent skills

Retrieval, tool use, evaluation — the building blocks of most AI deployments.

Debugging in production

Calm, methodical work when a customer system breaks.

Ownership

FDEs are judged on customer outcomes, not tickets closed.

Product feedback

Turning field problems into clear requests for the core product team.

FAQ

Questions about forward deployed engineer jobs

Everything you need to know before applying for your first forward deployed engineer role.

A forward deployed engineer is a software engineer who works directly with customers to deploy and adapt a company's platform — today usually an AI platform — building integrations, workflows and custom solutions until it delivers results.

Solutions engineers mostly support sales with demos and technical answers. Forward deployed engineers write production code for customers after the sale and own the deployment's success.

Many are remote with occasional customer travel; some require a region or on-site weeks. Each listing states the employer's location rules.

Yes. Profiles, browsing and applying are free.

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