C3 AI
1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at C3 AI. Curated with comp bands.
Comp on the board: $120K–$158K base (US).
On the board since Jul 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why C3 AI
The original enterprise-AI pure-play — good FDE volume, honest comp, priced pre-LLM.
- FDE type
- Solutions engineering
- Travel
- Medium
- Comp
- Below market
- Stage
- Public
A good fit if you're…
- Deployment engineers who want volume and real industrial/public-sector accounts
- People fine with below-lab comp in exchange for a public-company seat
- Candidates drawn to energy, manufacturing, and government AI rollouts
What they do
C3 AI is the original enterprise-AI pure-play — public since 2020, long before the LLM wave — selling enterprise AI applications to large industrial, energy, manufacturing, and public-sector customers. It's the pre-LLM generation of enterprise AI, with the account base and go-to-market that implies.
What “forward deployed” means here
FDEs deploy C3's enterprise applications at large customers: data integration, model deployment, and production rollouts on the C3 AI Platform. The work leans solutions-engineering — configuring and deploying a mature platform into complex industrial environments — rather than the green-field building you'd do at a frontier lab.
Comp & leveling
US bands are disclosed at $120K–$158K base — well under the AI-lab FDE seats. Same title, priced by a pre-LLM generation that never treated deployment as a scarce skill; the trade-off is honest comp and a public-company ticker instead of private equity upside.
Growth signals
Eight parallel FDE postings are live across Redwood City, New York, Atlanta, and London — genuinely good volume, and a real shot at industrial and public-sector accounts most lab FDEs never touch. For candidates who want to actually deploy at scale over chasing the top band, the volume is the draw.
Analysis updated 2026-09-18
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