> 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 Snowflake Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/snowflake 8 open forward deployed engineer (FDE) jobs at Snowflake across 2 US metros. Median posted base pay $239,000. 4 new in the last 30 days. Cloud-native data platform letting enterprises run analytics, AI/ML, and apps on governed data across AWS, Azure, and GCP without moving it. Public · About 5,000+ people **8 postings, 4 new in the last 30 days** 2 metros median posted base $239,000 [Careers at Snowflake ↗](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake) read Nov 6, 2026 ## 8 open FDE roles at Snowflake ### [Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0fe67c4c90ee64d6) Menlo Park, CA 10d ago $200,000–$287,500 - [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0fe67c4c90ee64d6) ### [Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Frontier Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1b237f99c5265790) Menlo Park, CA Hybrid 3w ago $304,000–$437,000 - [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1b237f99c5265790) ### [Principal Forward Deployed Engineer I, Frontier Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/df82a2a7144b8407) Menlo Park, CA Hybrid 3w ago $264,000–$379,500 - [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/df82a2a7144b8407) ### [Staff Applied AI Engineer (FDE)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3e68bc5680577be8) Menlo Park, CA Hybrid 5mo ago $200,000–$270,000 - [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3e68bc5680577be8) Leads the deployment team ### [Software Engineering Manager, AI Migrations (Forward Deployed)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/61aaf790de9aa316) Menlo Park, CA 3w ago $236,000–$339,200 - [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/61aaf790de9aa316) 4 of 8 postings are hands-on engineering in the customer’s own systems. 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%2Fsnowflake&placement=top) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## How Snowflake describes FDE work Mention travel How often postings mention travel Mention travel: 50% against the US average of 42%. Above average. Snowflake: 4 of 8 postings · all postings: 1,380 of 3,286 **50%** of postings · US 42% Above average Senior or staff level Senior-level responsibility or above Senior or staff level: 100% against the US average of 94%. Above average. Snowflake: 8 of 8 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: 88% against the US average of 80%. Above average. Snowflake: 7 of 8 postings · all postings: 2,554 of 3,183 **88%** of postings · US 80% Above average Remote allowed Not enough postings say Work for external customers Work done for people outside the company Work for external customers: 88% against the US average of 86%. About average. Snowflake: 7 of 8 postings · all postings: 2,808 of 3,276 **88%** of postings · US 86% About average Include pre-sales work Evaluation or proposal work before a deal Include pre-sales work: 13% against the US average of 24%. Below average. Snowflake: 1 of 8 postings · all postings: 783 of 3,273 **13%** of postings · US 24% Below average 0% 50% 100% Snowflake’s postings involve pre-sales less often than the US average (13% vs 24%) and describe production code more often (88% vs 80%). 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 Snowflake Median posted base **$239,000** · US staff-level FDE median **$225,000** 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. ### [Meta](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/meta) New York, NY · Seattle, WA · Menlo Park, CA · +4 · $180,000 6 postings ### [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) Arlington, VA · Seattle, WA · New York, NY · +16 · $184,000 81 postings ### [Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) Costa Mesa, CA · Washington, DC · Reston, VA · +13 · $222,000 41 postings Other FDE employers in SF Bay Area and New York metro - [FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?region=sf-bay-area) · 6 Snowflake postings · 482 companies - [FDE and deployment jobs in New York metro](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?region=nyc-metro) · 1 Snowflake posting · 436 companies Employer postings · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method) - [Hiring FDEs like Snowflake? 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