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FurtherAI

Forward Deployed Engineer

new $120K–$180K + 0.10–0.20% equity

One of the only FDE roles that openly hires new grads — 1+ years, $120K–$180K, and visa sponsorship — where the labs all gate at 5+. If you want the title on your résumé, this is the cheapest ticket in.

San Francisco (remote possible for exceptional US candidates) insurance AInew-grad on-rampvisa sponsor
Unity

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

new $228K–$342K

The board's first *internal* FDE: Unity isn't deploying to customers — it's embedding an engineer inside its own Finance, Legal, Marketing, and Ops teams to replace manual work with agents, at $228K–$342K employer-provided. The title escaping GTM and turning inward is the signal to watch.

San Francisco, CA public companyinternal FDEagent automation
Augment (goaugment.com)

Forward-Deployed Engineer

new Not disclosed (salary + stock)

A freight-logistics AI startup standing up its FIRST forward-deployed team — and the bar is just 1–5 years. A rare junior-friendly founding FDE seat, in a vertical (3PL, brokerage, carrier ops) almost nobody else on this board is hiring for. Not to be confused with Augment Code, the AI-coding company.

San Francisco freight logisticsfirst FDE hirejunior-friendly
Accrete

Forward Deployed Engineer

new $200K (employer provided)

A Prime Defense Contractor selling an 'AI workforce' for intelligence and cyber work — Accrete's FDEs deploy agents into government and enterprise at software economics, not labor. The census lists it hiring two FDE variants deep, including a PhD-required prompt seat.

New York (Lower Manhattan, 4 days in office) defense AIagentic workforceNYC
JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle)

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

new $150K–$280K

A Fortune 500 commercial-real-estate firm posting a Staff FDE at $150K–$280K — the clearest sign yet the title has jumped the tech fence, sitting alongside Seaboard Foods and Bilt on this board. Embedded engineering has officially reached the property-management world.

Chicago, IL Fortune 500commercial real estatetitle escapes tech
Handshake

Forward Deployed Engineer, Handshake AI

new $100K–$200K+

The campus-recruiting company quietly built 'the fastest-growing AI data business in history' in 2025 — Handshake AI FDEs sit across the table from frontier-lab researchers building evals and benchmarks. A direct Scale/Surge competitor hiring FDEs at both I and Senior levels.

San Francisco AI data + evalsfrontier-lab-facingScale competitor

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