Forward Deployed Engineer - Western US
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Most of the sample titles and summaries describe engineers who embed with external customers to design, build, and hand off production AI systems — writing code, shipping agents, and tuning models rather than sitting in a pre-sales or account management function. Day-to-day work spans fine-tuning open-weight language models, building evaluation infrastructure, integrating LLM APIs into enterprise workflows, and owning deployments from technical discovery through to production handoff.
The OpenAI healthcare role illustrates domain specialisation, requiring knowledge of EHR systems and interoperability standards. The Databricks senior role centres on data engineering and platform architecture across cloud providers. Reflection AI's post-training role focuses on dataset preparation and fine-tuning techniques such as SFT and DPO. At the management end, the Amazon senior manager role involves leading large multi-team engagements and communicating technical strategy to executive stakeholders, while the Baseten engineering manager role blends hands-on LLM inference work with team leadership.
The skills counts reflect how often each term appears in posting descriptions across the full set on this page, not formal requirements. Evaluation and LLMs appear in the majority of postings; Python and APIs appear in roughly half. Agent-related skills appear in a substantial minority. Infrastructure tooling — AWS, CI/CD, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, Azure, SQL — is mentioned in a smaller subset, suggesting it matters for some roles but is not universal.
The employers' own advertised ranges, for individual roles at different levels — not an average and not a market rate.
On-site working is the most common arrangement stated in these postings, making up the clear majority. A sizeable minority specify hybrid working. Only a very small number are listed as fully remote. No postings left work mode unstated, which is relatively unusual and means candidates can take the stated modes at face value for initial filtering. Where a role is on-site or hybrid, the expectation of customer travel is mentioned explicitly in at least one sample summary, so candidates should check individual postings for travel requirements beyond the primary work location.
Jobs checked 1 day ago. · Guide reviewed 9 September 2026.
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