Confidential
Forward Deployed AI Engineer
We captured this posting once, on 2026-08-05, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.
- Employer
- Confidential
- Location
- Remote
- Seniority
- Mid level
- Experience asked for
- 3+ years
- Pay band
- $176K – $280K
When we saw it
- Posted 2026-07-26 — the date the employer published it
- Archived 2026-08-05 — when we saved this copy
Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.
Skills the posting named
From the posting
Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Internal title: AI Field Engineer) Location: Remote (US) Work model: Fully remote, US-based. Regular travel to customer sites. Salary: $176K–$224K base | $220K–$280K OTE (80/20 base/variable) + meaningful equity I'm hiring a Forward Deployed AI Engineer for a generative AI inference platform built for open models — independently benchmarked as the fastest in the industry, and running production workloads behind AI products you've almost certainly used. ~200 people, $300M+ raised, founded in 2021 by engineers from one of the most respected ML infrastructure teams in the industry. This is the technical tip of the spear: you embed with the company's most ambitious customers and turn complex GenAI problems into production systems, fast. The problem you'd help solve: Corporate GenAI dies in the gap between the demo and production. …
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