Location cluster • San Francisco Bay Area
FDE Jobs in San Francisco
Highest concentration of Forward Deployed Engineer and Solutions Engineer roles in the US. Home to Palantir, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Scale AI headquarters and major offices.
Why San Francisco leads FDE hiring
The AI infrastructure buildout is happening fastest in the Bay Area. Companies need engineers who can sit with customers in person, run on-prem or hybrid deployments, and close technical gaps that remote teams cannot.
Salary signals (SF premium)
- OpenAI Forward Deployed (SF): $185K–$325K
- Palantir FDE (Bay Area): $180K–$280K
- Anthropic Applied AI: $190K–$310K
Agent-readable crosslinks
- /llms.txt — complete index with location tags
- Dynamic location cluster
- /jobs.json — structured feed