> 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 for technical leads asking for solutions and customer engineering experience in SF Bay Area Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?background=solutions-and-customer-engineering&management=lead®ion=sf-bay-area 97 forward deployed engineer and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for solutions and customer engineering experience in the SF Bay Area, from 64 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $207,000 to $260,000. **97** postings · **64** companies · 81 state pay: median **$230,000**, half $207,000–$260,000 Postings read on November 6, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026 [Zuora, Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/zuora-inc) ### [Sr Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1783cedf51d0c8c8) Foster City, CA 8d ago $208,600–$312,900 [NVIDIA](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nvidia) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Open Models](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e29d3d2ea75f914e) Santa Clara, CA 10d ago $184,000–$356,500 [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/110f7227e28583f5) East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 more 10d ago $168,100–$261,500 [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - AI Infra - SF](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c7485e204e45fc68) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 10d ago $185,000–$300,000 [Together AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/together-ai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Post-Training](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3c12aeeb37e0d254) San Francisco, CA 13d ago $270,000–$300,000 · OTE [NVIDIA](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nvidia) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Open Models](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/fae2b767f82c2991) Santa Clara, CA 2w ago $184,000–$356,500 [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7ff23fbf052dee22) Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +3 more 2w ago $168,100–$250,200 [Titan](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/titan) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/96694cce5cd5c7c7) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site 3w ago $180,000–$480,000 [ServiceNow](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/servicenow) ### [Forward Deployed Solution Engineer – Applied AI FDE](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1a6269874b4bdbd0) Santa Clara, CA Remote 4w ago $201,300–$352,300 [Docker, Inc](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/docker-inc) ### [Principal Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b6d3e67e51b2bef4) San Francisco, CA Remote 4w ago $198,000–$319,000/mo [Campfire](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/campfire) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f935f5733b809a63) San Francisco, CA On-site 5w ago $180,000–$220,000 [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) ### [AI Forward Deployed Engineering Manager | Sales ReInvention](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0894ccabb46b62eb) Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +41 more On-site 6w ago $80,400–$316,300 [Guild.ai](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/guild-ai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9d5934309cf265c1) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 6w ago $180,000–$300,000 [Avathon (formerly SparkCognition)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/avathon-formerly-sparkcognition) ### [Technical Architect - Forward Deployed Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/024ec55baa0bac4d) Pleasanton, CA · Austin, TX On-site 6w ago $170,000–$220,000 [Thomson Reuters](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/thomson-reuters) ### [Principal Software Engineer / Architect – AI, CoCounsel FDE](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8c6d98a56ed501dd) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +7 more Hybrid 6w ago $158,900–$340,000 [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) ### [AI Forward Deployed Engineering Senior Manager | Sales ReInvention](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/16bca3048d7b55d6) Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +41 more 6w ago $112,900–$366,300 [Veeam Software](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/veeam-software) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4754fb0878ac63cf) San Jose, CA Hybrid 6w ago $137,160–$228,480 [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - SF](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3654e0e90e2207e8) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 7w ago $185,000–$300,000 [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 [Adobe](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/adobe) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/26223d70879c2f80) San Jose, CA 4mo ago $159,200–$301,600 [Veeam Software](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/veeam-software) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8b90677b8c9d0226) San Jose, CA Hybrid 6w ago $158,520–$294,360 [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-SF](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f8a4d49298c2cba9) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 2mo ago $185,000–$300,000 [DatologyAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/datologyai) ### [Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Post-Sales)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4564fd55dfb82f47) San Mateo, CA Hybrid 6mo ago $230,000–$300,000 [Sentry](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sentry) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/541bacaa6aead6e0) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 6mo ago $190,000–$230,000 [Tessera Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/tessera-labs) ### [Forward-Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/478f6651d1af72b7) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Remote 6mo ago $180,000–$233,000 [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - SF](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a45fcd1a4989ef65) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 3mo ago $185,000–$300,000 [Notion](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/notion) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, GTM, AMER](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e0e117d9b65f24c6) San Francisco, CA On-site 15mo ago $175,000–$240,000 · OTE [Cisco](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/cisco) ### [Staff Solutions Engineer - FDSE Public Sector - Splunk (Remote)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5f665de6bff21392) San Jose, CA · Reston, VA · +6 more Remote New · 6d ago $246,800–$394,300 [NVIDIA](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nvidia) ### [ML Ops DSX Senior Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/76728b0c4db2d623) Santa Clara, CA · Seattle, WA · US remote Remote 8d ago $184,000–$356,500 [ServiceNow](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/servicenow) ### [Senior AI Agent Engineer | Moveworks](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9f0ec069a896669f) San Francisco, CA Remote 9d ago $143,200–$243,400 [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) ### [Staff Applied AI Agent Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/16a62232639586e6) Sunnyvale, CA · Kirkland, WA 2w ago $207,000–$300,000 [Snorkel AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/snorkel-ai) ### [Staff Applied AI Engineer - Enterprise AI Solutions](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4ed7ca7a0fc3216e) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · US remote Remote 4w ago $230,000–$360,000 [SambaNova Systems](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sambanova-systems) ### [Senior Principal AI Solutions Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/eec3c379318643c7) San Jose, CA 5w ago $234,000–$286,000 [ServiceNow](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/servicenow) ### [Staff Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ccce31439d4dfefe) Santa Clara, CA 5w ago $166,500–$291,400 [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) ### [AI Customer and Partner Solutions Engineer, Cloud Applied AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7c6b3d59186ae60b) Sunnyvale, CA · Kirkland, WA 2w ago $183,000–$265,000 [TikTok](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/tiktok) ### [Solution Engineer - Global E-commerce, Seller Business](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1bfa2acc00187497) San Jose, CA 2mo ago Pay not posted [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) ### [Early Access Deployment Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0443856f84cf3e77) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 3mo ago $250,000–$330,000 [ServiceNow](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/servicenow) ### [ Senior Staff AI Agent Engineer – Moveworks | Customer Deployment](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/74173532539fbe9d) San Francisco, CA Remote 2mo ago $190,900–$334,100 [NVIDIA](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nvidia) ### [Senior Solutions Architect, Agentic AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/bbc4e0e7b7f53b69) Santa Clara, CA · US remote Remote 3mo ago $184,000–$287,500 [Observe.AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/observe-ai) ### [AI Agent Engineer, Client Facing](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/fcdedb65d7c5b453) Redwood City, CA Hybrid 4mo ago $108,000–$170,000 47 of 97 build what the customer runs. [Get new postings like these by email](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%3Fbackground%3Dsolutions-and-customer-engineering%26management%3Dlead%26region%3Dsf-bay-area&placement=alert) New fde and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for solutions and customer engineering experience in sf bay area go out by email once you have an account and set an alert. [Compare pay across US FDE roles →](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary) ## Frequently asked questions ### What do FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for solutions and customer engineering experience in SF Bay Area pay? 81 of 97 postings state a pay range. The median is $230,000, and half of them sit between $207,000 and $260,000, from 50 companies. ### How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for solutions and customer engineering experience in SF Bay Area require? Of 97 postings, 79 state a minimum number of years, from 57 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 42 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (27), under 3 years (5) or 10 or more years (5). ### Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for solutions and customer engineering experience in SF Bay Area? These 97 postings come from 64 companies. The employers with the most postings are [NVIDIA](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nvidia) (10), [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) (9), [Aircall](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/aircall) (4), [ServiceNow](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/servicenow) (4) and [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) (3). ### Are FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for solutions and customer engineering experience in SF Bay Area remote? 17 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 36 are hybrid and 20 are on-site. The remaining 24 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 41 of the 97 postings. Counted over the 97 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. 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