> 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 and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area serving external customers and internal teams Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?background=software-engineering&recipient=both®ion=sf-bay-area 41 forward deployed engineer and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in the SF Bay Area serving external customers and internal teams, from 32 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $202,000 to $265,000. **41** postings · **32** companies · 37 state pay: median **$225,000**, half $202,000–$265,000 Postings read on November 6, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026 [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/11d3959b74fe7867) San Francisco, CA · Boston, MA · +4 more 7d ago $168,100–$261,500 [6sense](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/6sense) ### [Sr. ML Ops Engineer, Forward-Deployed ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/06ba4bd7675e00f2) San Francisco, CA Remote 9d ago $191,475–$260,830 [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Geo Auto](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0125b607a2d9c80e) Mountain View, CA · Seattle, WA 4w ago $152,000–$221,000 [Snorkel AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/snorkel-ai) ### [Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer - Computer Use Agents](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a1a38531f7571d5a) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 2mo ago $180,000–$320,000 [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Sr Forward Deployment Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/05bf5078ed5d3f1b) East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 more 2w ago $168,100–$261,500 [Middesk](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/middesk) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4733b2449ae72e66) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 6mo ago $148,000–$255,000 [Invisible Technologies](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/invisible-technologies) ### [Principal Backend Engineer (Forward Deployed)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/14b783c38e2fc93f) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 12mo ago $250,000–$300,000 [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) ### [Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/799ec8c403091b46) East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 more 2w ago $168,100–$261,500 [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e8b339d8be1a9304) Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +4 more 3w ago $168,100–$261,500 [Selector](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/selector) ### [Senior Software/Solutions Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/99e7475abc057601) Santa Clara, CA New · 2d ago $150,000–$185,000 [Elorian](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/elorian) ### [Software Engineer - Applications](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0686c28278c3efd2) Palo Alto, CA On-site New · 5d ago $250,000–$400,000 [Blue Matter](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/blue-matter) ### [AI Engineer / Senior AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3b3fb597face2eac) South San Francisco, CA 13d ago $120,000–$170,000 [Distyl AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/distyl-ai) ### [Infrastructure Engineer, Customer Delivery](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/520c15eff228e659) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 3w ago $200,000–$250,000 [Pulley](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pulley) ### [AI Operations Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e641d7edbdd4483a) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 4w ago $150,000–$190,000 [Niantic Spatial](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/niantic-spatial) ### [Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Embodied AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/19e6cf58dd331caa) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 5w ago $207,000–$265,000 [NVIDIA](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nvidia) ### [Senior Applications Software Engineer, Perception and Sensor Fusion](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/561089c546feb404) Santa Clara, CA 6w ago $152,000–$287,500 [OpenAI Foundation](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai-foundation) ### [AI Deployment Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/848302912d64ec39) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 6w ago $350,000–$450,000 [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) ### [Staff Research Engineer, Applied AI, DeepMind](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/713ebe7e74f1e4c4) Mountain View, CA 7w ago $207,000–$300,000 [Bain](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/bain) ### [Lead, Engineering Excellence](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/22a12cc51fef0229) San Francisco, CA · Atlanta, GA · +8 more Hybrid 2mo ago $179,875–$203,925 [NVIDIA](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nvidia) ### [Senior MLOps Engineer - DSX Enablement](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d111a9977bdaacbb) Santa Clara, CA · Seattle, WA · US remote Remote 2mo ago $184,000–$356,500 [Tempo](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/tempo) ### [Product Engineer, Blockchain (SF)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/25f95ddd6ba1c9e2) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 3mo ago Pay not posted [Decagon](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/decagon) ### [Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e7808131a88984b8) San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago $200,000–$400,000 [West Monroe](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/west-monroe) ### [Senior Applied AI Engineer/Architect](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8a4b60dcc900fac7) San Francisco, CA · Boston, MA · +7 more 4mo ago $225,000–$304,200 [Canvas Medical](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/canvas-medical) ### [Solutions Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/53dfbacde8578f09) San Francisco, CA · Washington, DC Remote 14mo ago Pay not posted [Fireworks AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/fireworks-ai) ### [Member of Technical Staff, Applied Machine Learning Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/991b159eed68c984) San Mateo, CA Hybrid 18mo ago $170,000–$240,000 [Salesforce](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/salesforce) Leads the deployment team ### [Senior Director, Forward Deployed Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8b65ace4a79082c1) San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +1 more New · 2d ago $196,700–$329,210 [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) Builds for teams inside the company ### [Senior Security Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5965a8234fffc00e) Mountain View, CA · Boston, MA · +4 more 7w ago $175,100–$247,600 [Harper](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/harper) Builds for teams inside the company ### [Forward Deployed Operations](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/80b7ff167e547412) San Francisco, CA On-site 4mo ago $125,000–$175,000 [OneSchema](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/oneschema) Plans what the customer deploys first ### [Forward Deployed PM](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8f7dd7c70a2985e0) San Francisco, CA On-site 5mo ago Pay not posted [Labelbox](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/labelbox) Builds for teams inside the company ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, RL Environments](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d5c67750fd6fd53a) SF Bay Area 7mo ago $140,000–$200,000 [Snorkel AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/snorkel-ai) Leads the deployment team ### [Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5b3763b34dd9cb0d) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 7mo ago $200,000–$320,000 [Thatch](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/thatch) Integrates and configures it ### [Partner Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f0e7fcf68f87dedb) San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +1 more · US remote Remote 8d ago $160,000–$195,000 [CoreWeave](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/coreweave) Integrates and configures it ### [Senior Specialist Field Engineer - SaaS](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c383682d25fbd0ee) Sunnyvale, CA · San Francisco, CA 1mo ago $182,000–$242,000 [NVIDIA](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nvidia) Integrates and configures it ### [Senior Solutions Architect, AI Inference](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d22e034dd514242b) Santa Clara, CA · US remote Remote 2mo ago $184,000–$356,500 [Anthropic](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anthropic) Proves it works before the sale ### [Applied AI, Research Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ad03554ab362a16c) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 2mo ago $300,000–$400,000 [Ciridae](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ciridae) Builds for teams inside the company ### [Staff Platform Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/63b9ca33c41caa45) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site 2mo ago Pay not posted [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) Builds for teams inside the company ### [Software Engineer, Safety Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/830735363503685c) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 2mo ago $207,000–$385,000 [Retell AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/retell-ai) Builds for teams inside the company ### [Founders Initiatives, Technical Ex-Founders](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1fef50e3f27a227b) Redwood City, CA On-site 4mo ago $180,000–$300,000 [Apple](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/apple) Builds for teams inside the company ### [Staff Software Engineer (Applied AI)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f561d0a23f932b54) Cupertino, CA 6mo ago $194,600–$293,900 [Mariana Minerals](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/mariana-minerals) Builds for teams inside the company ### [Senior Full Stack Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f969b0acf6a0944b) San Francisco, CA On-site 13mo ago $150,000–$220,000 25 of 41 build what the customer runs. 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The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 18 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (10), under 3 years (5) or 10 or more years (3). ### Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area serving external customers and internal teams? These 41 postings come from 32 companies. The employers with the most postings are [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) (5), [NVIDIA](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nvidia) (3), [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) (2), [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) (2) and [Snorkel AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/snorkel-ai) (2). ### Are FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area serving external customers and internal teams remote? 5 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 13 are hybrid and 7 are on-site. The remaining 16 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 11 of the 41 postings. Counted over the 41 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey. Employer postings · Locations cover the metro area, not only the city. The background is what the posting asks for in the employer’s own words. Postings that state no experience requirement, or ask for experience outside the five we list, are left out. 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