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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Location: Washington, DC | Type: Full Time | Setup: Hybrid | Experience: 5+ years
About the Role
You'll build production AI systems for enterprise clients and sit in the room where the decisions get made. This is hands-on engineering work: RAG pipelines with real retrieval metrics, agent architectures with observability, LLM integrations with cost controls and fallback strategies. You ship things real users depend on, then stand behind them with the client.
Our client is a fast-moving organization deploying AI into production environments where the difference between a demo and a product actually matters. The work rewards engineers who are in the trenches with current tooling, not coasting on last year's knowledge.
If you can build the thing right and explain to a stakeholder why it was the right thing to build, this role will fit.
What You'll Do
• Build and ship LLM-powered features into production, including RAG pipelines, agent workflows, and model integrations
• Instrument what you build with evals, observability, latency optimization, and cost management
• Work directly with client stakeholders, translating technical decisions for non-technical audiences
• Own your workstream from scoping through deployment
• Use agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) daily to amplify your output while reviewing and owning every line that ships
• Stay current with frameworks, protocols, and models as the tooling landscape moves
Qualifications
• 5+ years of production software engineering, with hands-on LLM-focused work
• Experience shipping AI systems real users depend on, with measurable outcomes
• Full-stack capability across Python, TypeScript, React, and modern backend frameworks
• Client-facing or consulting delivery experience, with a track record of projects that shipped rather than just started
• Comfortable getting hands-on; this is a builder role, not a delegator role
Why Join Us
You'll work on consequential AI deployments with senior practitioners who hold a high bar, with direct client exposure and real ownership. Competitive compensation and benefits.
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Across 10 listings, advertised pay ranges from USD 143k to USD 307k.
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Explore the latest forward deployed engineer jobs from leading AI, data, and enterprise software companies hiring across the globe. This page features curated remote, hybrid, and onsite forward deployed engineer (FDE) roles for engineers who thrive at the intersection of software development and customer-facing work.
Forward deployed engineers embed directly with customers to design, build, and ship production solutions on top of a company's core platform. Popularized by companies like Palantir and now central to how leading AI labs and infrastructure companies deploy their technology, FDE roles combine hands-on coding with solution architecture, integration work, and real-world problem solving in the field.
These positions typically require strong programming skills in languages such as Python, TypeScript, or Java, experience with APIs, cloud platforms, and data pipelines, and the communication skills to work directly with enterprise stakeholders. Many roles involve travel to customer sites, rapid prototyping, and turning ambiguous business problems into working software.
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