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# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer [NYC or SF] in San Francisco

- **Company:** Energy Jobline
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $260,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.energyjobline.com/job/senior-forward-deployed-engineer-nyc-or-sf-san-francisco-31581426

## About the Role

* You've broken hard, ambiguous problems into work other engineers could own and deliver
 * You have real experience with LLMs and agent systems, or the depth to get there fast
 * You have the judgment to make tradeoffs and the standing to say no when something doesn't hold up
 * You lead well, whether through architecture, through people, or both
 * You're low ego, direct, and hold yourself and your team to a high bar
 * You can work on site in New York City or San Francisco

Nice to have

 * Experience in a regulated or high-reliability domain (healthcare, finance, legal)
 * Experience shipping production AI or ML systems
 * Background in customer-facing or forward-deployed engineering



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