AI Field Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Quick facts
- Pay
- $176K–$228K base | $220K–$285K OTE + meaningful equity
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- New York / San Mateo, NY / CA
- Experience
- 3–10 years
- Skills
- Python, Kubernetes, AWS
- Industry
- Information Technology — 671 open jobs
- Visa in listing
- H-1B
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay anyone for a job offer or visa sponsorship
Job description
Location: New York, NY / San Mateo, CA / Remote, USA
Employment Type: Full-time
Experience: 3–10 years
Compensation: $176K–$228K base | $220K–$285K OTE + meaningful equity
Visa: H-1B transfers and TN visas sponsored; O-1 considered case-by-case
About The Role
We’re hiring an AI Field Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to join our AI’s high-velocity team
You’ll work directly with ambitious AI-native companies to turn complex AI challenges into production-ready systems. This is a highly hands-on role sitting at the intersection of AI engineering, product, and customer delivery.
You’ll build POCs, MVPs, and production integrations while working directly with customers, account executives, and engineering teams. You’ll also engage with technical and executive stakeholders to discuss architecture, strategy, and business outcomes.
This is not a traditional consulting or solutions role you’ll be hands-on-keyboard, writing code, deploying systems, solving technical problems, and contributing directly to our products and platform.
What You’ll Do
- Work directly with customers to understand their technical and business challenges.
- Design and build POCs, MVPs, and production AI applications.
- Deploy and optimize LLM and generative AI workloads in production.
- Work with open-source models, inference infrastructure, and AI/ML platforms.
- Collaborate with customer engineering teams, account executives, and Fireworks product/engineering teams.
- Translate customer requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Troubleshoot complex AI, infrastructure, and deployment challenges.
- Communicate technical architecture and tradeoffs to both engineers and executive stakeholders.
- Contribute code and product improvements directly to the codebase.
- Turn customer learnings into product feedback and help shape our roadmap.
- Take ownership of projects from initial discovery through production deployment.
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for engineers who combine strong technical depth with excellent customer-facing skills.
You may come from backgrounds such as:
- Forward Deployed Engineer
- AI/ML Engineer
- Applied AI Engineer
- AI Solutions Engineer
- Solutions Architect
- Sales Engineer
- Customer Engineer
- ML/AI Infrastructure Engineer
- Customer Success Engineer with strong technical depth
Required
- 3–10 years of experience in a client-facing technical or AI/ML engineering role.
- Strong Python programming skills.
- Experience building and deploying AI/ML or generative AI applications.
- Experience working with LLMs and/or open-source AI models.
- Ability to work directly with customers and communicate technical concepts clearly.
- Experience building POCs and taking solutions toward production.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments.
- Willingness to work hands-on across engineering, customer delivery, and product.
Technical Experience
Experience with some of the following is highly relevant:
- Python
- vLLM
- SGLang
- TensorRT-LLM
- Kubernetes
- AWS, Azure, or GCP
- AWS Bedrock / SageMaker
- Azure AI Foundry
- GCP Vertex AI
- LLM fine-tuning, including SFT, DPO, or RFT
- GPU infrastructure
- Model inference and optimization
You do not need experience with every technology listed, but you should have strong fundamentals in AI/ML engineering and be comfortable learning quickly.
Why Join?
- Work directly with cutting-edge AI companies.
- Build real AI systems that move from prototype to production.
- Work across engineering, product, and customer delivery.
- Contribute directly to an AI infrastructure platform.
- Join a highly technical, builder-first team.
- Competitive compensation of $220K–$285K OTE + meaningful equity.
- US visa support including H-1B transfers and TN visas.
Visa sponsorship record
No public sponsorship records foundWe didn't find H-1B, H-1B1, E-3 or green card (PERM) filings under the name Burjline Builders in the Department of Labor and USCIS data. That doesn't mean the job can't be sponsored — the company may file under a different legal name, be new to sponsorship, or sponsor a visa that isn't in these datasets (for example H-2B or J-1).
Tip: ask the recruiter early, in writing, which visa they sponsor and whether they cover the legal and filing fees.
Which visas can work for this job
Occupation: Engineers, All Other (SOC 17-2199) — estimated from the job title.
- Mentioned in the listing
H-1B
- H-1B cap-exempt employer
Regular cap-subject employer — a new H-1B needs to win the lottery in March (unless you already hold cap-counted H-1B status).
- TN (citizens of Canada and Mexico)
This kind of role may fit the USMCA profession “Engineer” — it depends on the actual duties. No lottery, no cap; you need the matching degree or license.
- E-3 (Australia) and H-1B1 (Chile, Singapore)
Same degree requirement as H-1B, but no lottery and a separate quota that is rarely filled.
- O-1 (extraordinary ability)
For candidates with awards, publications, press, a high salary or critical roles at distinguished organizations. No cap, no lottery; the employer files a petition.
- STEM OPT extension (F-1 students)
Requires an E-Verify employer. We didn't find this company in the E-Verify list — ask HR.
Salary vs prevailing wage
Level IV (fully competent)Engineers, All Other · New York (state median of areas). Annual prevailing wages set by the Department of Labor (OFLC).
| Level | Prevailing wage | H-1B lottery odds* |
|---|---|---|
| Level I | $74,558 | ~15% |
| Level II | $94,536 | ~31% |
| Level III | $114,535 | ~46% |
| Level IV | $134,222 | ~61% |
This job pays $176,000–$228,000 a year — that's Level IV (fully competent). In the wage-weighted H-1B lottery a Level IV registration gets 4 entries; estimated selection chance about 61% — better than average.
* Odds are DHS projections for the FY2027 wage-weighted lottery (actual results vary by year and employer). Since the FY2027 cap season the H-1B lottery is weighted by wage level: Level I = 1 entry, II = 2, III = 3, IV = 4. The level is set by the offered wage against the prevailing wage for the occupation and worksite. Separately, a $100,000 fee for new H-1B petitions for workers outside the US was announced in 2025; as of September 2026 a federal court ruling keeps it unenforceable while appeals continue — check the current status.
Sources: U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data (H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 LCA, PERM), OFLC prevailing wage data, USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, E-Verify participating employers. Data loaded: LCA FY2024–FY2026, PERM, USCIS Data Hub, OFLC wages; updated 2026-10-03. Employers are matched by name, so records of companies with similar names can occasionally be mixed up. This is general information, not legal advice — talk to an immigration attorney about your case.