Titlesby GlyphAI Deployment Engineer a new title on company job boards
Engineering · Emerging · not on Hacker News yet · 35 open roles at 13 companies · median $158k
Deploys and tunes an AI product or agent inside a customer's stack; a close cousin of the forward deployed engineer.
Why it exists
Written by rule from our own data
First seen in our data in June 2013, in a Hacker News Who is hiring post from DocuSign. It took off in August 2013, when its share of Who is hiring posts first reached a quarter of its best year. Today 35 open roles use the title at 13 companies, most of them in AI applications.
- PostingAsk HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)Hacker News, Jun 2013 · backs: first sighting
- PostingAI deployment engineer (Central)Writer, Nov 2026 · backs: an open posting with the title
Where it is posted
Sectors
- AI application12
- Infrastructure2
- Robotics and autonomy2
- Developer tools2
- Data platform1
- AI lab1
Cities
- San Francisco6
- New York3
- London, United Kingdom3
- Palo Alto3
- Los Angeles2
- Toronto, Canada2
- Hyderabad, India1
- Seattle1
- Boston1
- Austin1
Countries and remote
- United States23
- United Kingdom3
- Canada2
- India1
- Australia1
Posted pay
Middle half $149k to $200k, median $158k from 21 postings that state a base range (USD a year).
Who is hiring for it
Open postings on their own job boards, read 5h ago| # | Company | Open roles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | ||
| 2 | Anduril IndustriesA company hiring most for Systems Engineer and Test Engineer. | 8 | |
| 3 | 3 | ||
| 4 | 3 | ||
| 5 | 2 | ||
| 6 | 2 | ||
| 7 | 2 | ||
| 8 | 1 | ||
| 9 | ICEYEA company hiring most for Test Engineer and DevOps Engineer. | 1 | |
| 10 | 1 | ||
| 11 | 1 | ||
| 12 | Prolific MachinesA company hiring most for AI Deployment Engineer. | 1 |
Open roles
8 of 35; company pages list the restSenior Forward Deployment Engineer
Austin; Boston; Dallas; Denver; Houston; Los Angeles; Nashville; New York City; Palo Alto; Philadelphia; San Francisco; Seattle; United States
Deployment Engineer
Broomfield, Colorado, United States; Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
| Role | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| AI deployment engineer (Central) | Chicago, IL | $132k to $184k | |
| Senior Field Deployment EngineerProlific MachinesEmeryville, California$120k to $170k | Prolific Machines | Emeryville, California | $120k to $170k |
| Senior Forward Deployment Engineer | Austin; Boston; Dallas; Denver; Houston; Los Angeles; Nashville; New York City; Palo Alto; Philadelphia; San Francisco; Seattle; United States | $126k to $248k | |
| Deployment EngineerAnduril IndustriesBroomfield, Colorado, United States; Fort Collins, Colorado, United States$127k to $170k | Anduril Industries | Broomfield, Colorado, United States; Fort Collins, Colorado, United States | $127k to $170k |
| Network Deployment Engineer | Hybrid | $114k to $157k | |
| Deployment EngineerSquint.aiSan Francisco$180k to $220k | Squint.ai | San Francisco | $180k to $220k |
| Early Access Deployment Engineer | San Francisco | $250k to $330k | |
| Agent Deployment Engineer - Spanish Speaking | San Francisco | $175k to $230k |
Share of Hacker News hiring posts
39 posts since Apr 2011 · +97% in 6 monthsRelated titles
About this title
Deploys and tunes an AI product or agent inside a customer's stack; a close cousin of the forward deployed engineer.
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23 open postings titled "AI Deployment Engineer" at OpenAI, Cloudflare, Decagon, Supabase and 3 more (job-board scan, 2026-09-24). One of the postings. Not checked by hand yet.
Median posted salary $158k from 21 postings that state a base pay range (the median of their midpoints, USD a year). Not a survey of what people earn.