> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # FDE jobs at Lockheed Martin Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/lockheed-martin 9 open forward deployed engineer (FDE) jobs at Lockheed Martin across 7 US metros. Median posted base pay $158,000. 9 new in the last 30 days. **9 postings, 9 new in the last 30 days** 7 metros median posted base $158,000 [Careers at Lockheed Martin ↗](https://lockheedmartin.eightfold.ai/careers) read Nov 6, 2026 Published Oct 24, 2026 ## 9 open FDE roles at Lockheed Martin Builds what the customer runs ### [Operations AI Forward Deployed Engineer - Level 4](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/02ed00cb1edd3179) Fort Worth, TX 2w ago $104,900–$194,700 - [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/02ed00cb1edd3179) Builds what the customer runs ### [Agentic Ontology Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/17fb311b40c3c6b0) DC · VA · FL 2w ago $88,000–$280,000 ### [AI Research Engineer Stf - Engineering Transformation](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7b01cbb0551581ee) TX Remote 10d ago $120,600–$224,000 - [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7b01cbb0551581ee) ### [AI Machine Learning Engineering Staff](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/fa0c4182fab01094) TX 2w ago $120,600–$224,000 - [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/fa0c4182fab01094) ### [Full-Stack Software Engineer Senior - Level 3](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/237d18f514a4d902) Marietta, GA · Palmdale, CA 2w ago $98,000–$205,000 5 of 9 postings build for teams inside the company. Rows that do other work name it. Compare these roles with [pay ranges at other US FDE employers](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary). - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fcompanies%2Flockheed-martin&placement=top) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## How Lockheed Martin describes FDE work Mention travel How often postings mention travel Mention travel: 0% against the US average of 42%. Well below average. Lockheed Martin: 0 of 9 postings · all postings: 1,380 of 3,286 **0%** of postings · US 42% Well below average Senior or staff level Senior-level responsibility or above Senior or staff level: 100% against the US average of 94%. Above average. Lockheed Martin: 9 of 9 postings · all postings: 3,005 of 3,212 **100%** of postings · US 94% Above average Require production code Postings that involve writing production code Require production code: 100% against the US average of 80%. Well above average. Lockheed Martin: 8 of 8 postings · all postings: 2,554 of 3,183 **100%** of postings · US 80% Well above average Remote allowed Not enough postings say Work for external customers Work done for people outside the company Work for external customers: 67% against the US average of 86%. Well below average. Lockheed Martin: 6 of 9 postings · all postings: 2,808 of 3,276 **67%** of postings · US 86% Well below average Include pre-sales work Evaluation or proposal work before a deal Include pre-sales work: 0% against the US average of 24%. Well below average. Lockheed Martin: 0 of 9 postings · all postings: 783 of 3,273 **0%** of postings · US 24% Well below average 0% 50% 100% Lockheed Martin’s postings mention travel far less often than the US average (0% vs 42%) and involve pre-sales less often (0% vs 24%). Shares leave out postings that say nothing about a measure. Travel counts silence as no mention. [Compare with all US FDE postings and read the method →](https://nextmove.md/fde/research) ## Pay at Lockheed Martin Median posted base **$158,000** · US senior FDE median **$190,000** From 8 posted base ranges, each read at its middle. Bonus and equity are not counted. [See how posted pay differs by level, location and travel →](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary#pay-level) ## Compare with similar employers Employers whose postings describe the most similar work. ### [eClerx](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/eclerx) Austin, TX · New York, NY 5 postings ### [Fluidstack](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/fluidstack) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY $262,000 10 postings ### [Wyetech](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/wyetech) Ft. 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