> 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 in SF Bay Area with production coding serving external customers Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?coding=production&recipient=external®ion=sf-bay-area 582 forward deployed engineer and deployment jobs in the SF Bay Area with production coding serving external customers, from 323 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $184,000 to $250,000. **582** postings · **323** companies · 448 state pay: median **$215,000**, half $184,000–$250,000 Postings read on November 6, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026 [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer IV, Data Cloud, Google Cloud](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7460c510f62762db) San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +5 more New · Today $207,000–$300,000 [Thomson Reuters](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/thomson-reuters) ### [Senior Software Engineer - AI, CoCounsel FDE](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4062210d6364bfec) San Francisco, CA · Frisco, TX · +7 more Hybrid New · Today $118,400–$253,000 [jeffreym-consulting](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/jeffreym-consulting) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/160095c9c45ee8af) San Francisco, CA On-site New · Today $180,000–$250,000 [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Cyber - SF](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5a5eb13cea3121c0) San Francisco, CA Hybrid New · Today $185,000–$300,000 [Databricks](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/databricks) ### [Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer - Public Sector](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/440870dea6def209) Berkeley, CA · Kansas City, MO · +1 more Remote New · Today $182,000–$250,208 [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer III, Data Cloud, Google Cloud](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/82606f0a46009d9d) San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +5 more New · Today $174,000–$252,000 [Generalist AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/generalist-ai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f13c7e99d08d7c7e) San Mateo, CA On-site New · Yesterday $150,000–$200,000 [Pramaana Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pramaana-labs) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f99fed3ab01cfc35) Palo Alto, CA On-site New · Yesterday Pay not posted [Clera](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/clera) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2f8984aea217c71f) San Francisco, CA Hybrid New · Yesterday $180,000–$220,000 [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Higher Education, Google Public Sector](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d79f8d9d3dca840c) Sunnyvale, CA New · 2d ago $207,000–$300,000 [Pear-VC](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pear-vc) ### [Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (USA)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d2fe7fcf1812470c) Palo Alto, CA · New York, NY Remote New · 3d ago Pay not posted [Concurrence](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/concurrence) ### [Staff Applied AI Engineer (Forward Deployed) [NYC or SF]](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6fc4932d5c7940bc) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site New · 3d ago $240,000–$300,000 [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0ebf30b12510c57d) East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 more New · 3d ago $168,100–$261,500 [Armadin](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/armadin) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/94d19b74b47c0652) Palo Alto, CA On-site New · 4d ago Pay not posted [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Generative AI, Geo](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/10a632380303adc5) Mountain View, CA · New York, NY · +2 more New · 6d ago $152,000–$221,000 [Concurrence](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/concurrence) ### [Senior Applied AI Engineer (Forward Deployed) [NYC or SF]](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d7f8666921b5b55f) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site New · 4d ago $200,000–$260,000 [Intercom](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/intercom) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0b7b9b01aafdb7a1) San Francisco, CA Hybrid New · 6d ago $180,000–$237,000 [Analog Devices](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/analog-devices) ### [Staff Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/55ab1cb03c40426b) San Jose, CA · Boston, MA 7d ago $197,800–$271,975 [ChipAgents](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/chipagents) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2ff7b7b2f9e8f946) San Jose, CA On-site 7d ago $180,000–$300,000 [Pylon](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pylon) ### [Lead Forward Deployed Product Manager](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/95e70e5ddcd3a698) Palo Alto, CA · New York, NY On-site 8d ago Pay not posted [Cohere](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/cohere) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Inference ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/23716a9ac7c3670f) San Francisco, CA Remote 8d ago $240,000–$415,000 [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 [Snowflake](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/snowflake) ### [Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0fe67c4c90ee64d6) Menlo Park, CA 8d ago $200,000–$287,500 [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Google Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4d1c7448b8630fd7) Mountain View, CA · New York, NY 8d ago $174,000–$252,000 [Medra](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/medra) ### [Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8d9b4f103b1afb83) San Francisco, CA On-site 9d ago $130,000–$210,000 [6sense](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/6sense) ### [Staff Data Scientist, Forward Deployed](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/858a50fe32ba1077) San Francisco, CA Remote 9d ago $194,736.75–$265,613.9 [OpenAI Deployment Company](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai-deployment-company) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer - Cleared - US](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c19d1fdb2baf1e9b) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 9d ago $170,000–$400,000 [NVIDIA](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nvidia) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Open Models](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e29d3d2ea75f914e) Santa Clara, CA 9d ago $184,000–$356,500 [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d1798a89ed0fd75b) East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 more 10d ago $143,700–$223,600 [6sense](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/6sense) ### [Sr. Data Scientist, Forward-Deployed](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8eac81fe1ac3dfde) San Francisco, CA Remote 9d ago $168,349.5–$230,912.6 [Plain](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/plain) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/25449c101b2d1a5a) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 10d ago $180,000–$250,000 [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 [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 [Sia](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sia) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/202e5a48c009cc01) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +7 more Hybrid 13d ago $130,600–$147,000 [Simple AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/simple-ai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/048b7691c8a2aa85) San Francisco, CA On-site 13d ago $120,000–$200,000 [Overland AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/overland-ai) ### [Forward Deployed Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1229d389bf76fbbb) San Francisco, CA · Seattle, WA On-site 13d ago $140,000–$180,000 [Arkham Technologies Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/arkham-technologies-inc) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/fa3df20a38255419) Palo Alto, CA 13d ago Pay not posted [Luminary](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/luminary) ### [Senior/Principal Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI/ML](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/abf1cdea6984147c) San Mateo, CA On-site 13d ago Pay not posted [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 [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/26e06cc5e8aaa519) Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +3 more 2w ago $143,700–$213,800 495 of 582 build what the customer runs. [Get new postings like these by email](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%3Fcoding%3Dproduction%26recipient%3Dexternal%26region%3Dsf-bay-area&placement=alert) New fde and deployment jobs in sf bay area with production coding serving external customers 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 in SF Bay Area with production coding serving external customers pay? 448 of 582 postings state a pay range. The median is $215,000, and half of them sit between $184,000 and $250,000, from 234 companies. ### How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area with production coding serving external customers require? Of 582 postings, 308 state a minimum number of years, from 183 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 172 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (67), under 3 years (47) or 10 or more years (22). ### Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area with production coding serving external customers? These 582 postings come from 323 companies. The employers with the most postings are [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) (19), [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) (19), [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) (17), [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) (14) and [Sierra](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sierra) (13). ### Are FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area with production coding serving external customers remote? 48 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 153 are hybrid and 228 are on-site. The remaining 153 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 247 of the 582 postings. Counted over the 582 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. 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