Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CAFull-timePosted 3w agoStill listed today
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Job overview
The Forward Deployed Engineer builds end-to-end systems that turn operational problems into production software, working closely with customers from initial build through adoption. The role spans architecture, frontend and backend development, data, integrations, LLM orchestration, and production cutover. Engineers work in small pods, and field learnings inform reusable tooling and platform capabilities. Experienced FDEs lead engagements; earlier-career engineers ramp quickly.
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This is a super-powered FDE who has world-class engineering talent with the ability to translate it to a business audience. Over four weeks, a mess of spreadsheets, disconnected SaaS, and tribal knowledge becomes a full-stack system the business runs on. Our internal platform, Crucible, removes the deployment ramp, so you can have a production grade working demo by the end of your first day on site. You stay close to the code and close to the customer, carrying the system from first build through real use.
What you own. The full solution, end-to-end. From an ambiguous operational problem through architecture, frontend, backend, data, integrations, LLM orchestration, production cutover, and the metric that proves it worked. You own the deployment and oversee integrations. You work within a small pod that provides the delivery and platform support you need to focus on building the right thing. You're writing React in the morning, shaping a Postgres schema after lunch, and debugging an agent loop before dinner. What you learn in the field feeds back into Crucible as reusable tooling, patterns, and platform capabilities that make the next deployment faster.
What you bring. Production software shipped end-to-end across the stack: React and TypeScript on the frontend, Python on the backend, APIs in use. Opinions about RAG, agents, and evals formed from building them, not reading about them. Judgment to turn incomplete requirements and evolving user feedback into working software. Comfort in a room with a CFO or a CTO alike. Calm with ambiguity. Excitement about spending meaningful time with customers and taking responsibility for whether the system is adopted and delivers the intended result.
Level. Experienced FDEs lead engagements start to finish. Earlier-career engineers ramp quickly to do the same.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,965 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$156–265K/yr553 salary ranges
- US median$31–91/hr62 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 670 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs in California and 2,965 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Deloitte165 open
- Accenture63 open
- Databricks19 open
- Experience
- Forward Deployed Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (2,597 postings).
- Education
- 629 of the 2,965 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs (21%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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