> 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. # Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs at later-stage private companies Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?companyStage=late&level=staff 143 staff-level forward deployed engineer and deployment jobs at later-stage private companies, from 76 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $210,000 to $283,000. **143** postings · **76** companies · 130 state pay: median **$244,000**, half $210,000–$283,000 Postings read on November 6, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026 [Red Cell Partners](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/red-cell-partners) Builds what the customer runs ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/531129e17d951cad) Seattle, WA · Mclean, VA Remote New · 3d ago $180,000–$240,000 [6sense](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/6sense) Builds what the customer runs ### [Staff Data Scientist, Forward Deployed](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/858a50fe32ba1077) San Francisco, CA Remote 9d ago $194,736.75–$265,613.9 [Anthropic](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anthropic) Builds what the customer runs ### [Staff Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6820987055206e6d) New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · +1 more Hybrid 3w ago $280,000–$320,000 [Alation](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/alation) Builds what the customer runs ### [Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/19479baf50cbb536) US Remote 4w ago $152,152–$205,405 [EY](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ey) Builds what the customer runs ### [Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI - Manager - Financial Services - Consulting](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6356c5612e0166c9) Charlotte, NC · Dallas, TX · +2 more Hybrid 4w ago $125,500–$261,600 [CrossCountry Consulting](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/crosscountry-consulting) Builds what the customer runs ### [Forward Deployed Engineer & Agentic Workflow Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/97bb62bb48a619ce) US · city not listed Hybrid 5w ago $150,000–$285,000 [AHEAD](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ahead) Builds what the customer runs ### [Principal Technical Consultant – Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Security](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a195c1904c87ad48) US Remote 5w ago Pay not posted [Avathon (formerly SparkCognition)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/avathon-formerly-sparkcognition) Builds what the customer runs ### [Technical Architect - Forward Deployed Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/024ec55baa0bac4d) Pleasanton, CA · Austin, TX On-site 6w ago $170,000–$220,000 [Veeam Software](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/veeam-software) Builds what the customer runs ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8b90677b8c9d0226) San Jose, CA Hybrid 6w ago $158,520–$294,360 [Alation](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/alation) Builds what the customer runs ### [Staff Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2d0c2690ef3af1c0) US Remote 7w ago $124,646–$168,272 [Atomic](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/atomic) Builds what the customer runs ### [Founding Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/33f9648658b0d6e3) US Remote 7w ago $200,000–$250,000 [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) Builds what the customer runs ### [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) Builds what the customer runs ### [Senior/Staff FDE - Synthetic Data Generation](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1a54d450f761a8e3) New York, NY · San Francisco, CA Hybrid 2mo ago $180,000–$320,000 [Databricks](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/databricks) Builds what the customer runs ### [Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer - National Security](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1bd281fd02dd5ebf) US · city not listed Hybrid 2mo ago $182,000–$250,208 [Indicium AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/indicium-ai) Builds what the customer runs ### [Forward Deployed Software Engineer - NYC](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9b4c5fad7de80c5a) New York, NY Hybrid 3mo ago $180,000–$240,000 [Afresh](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/afresh) Builds what the customer runs ### [Staff Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0048527666072851) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 3mo ago $168,912–$253,368 [Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai) Builds what the customer runs ### [Staff Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7450160035e263a5) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 more 5mo ago $252,000–$315,000 [Liatrio](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/liatrio) Builds what the customer runs ### [Principal Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/78beee344451f69f) US Remote 7mo ago Pay not posted [Invisible Technologies](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/invisible-technologies) Builds what the customer runs ### [Principal Backend Engineer (Forward Deployed)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/14b783c38e2fc93f) New York, NY · San Francisco, CA Hybrid 12mo ago $250,000–$300,000 [Invisible Technologies](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/invisible-technologies) Builds what the customer runs ### [Staff Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/19bb1237798f4e23) New York, NY · San Francisco, CA Hybrid 12mo ago $210,000–$300,000 [Deloitte US](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/deloitte-us) Builds what the customer runs ### [ServiceNow Lead Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/04042fc305bb2936) Rosslyn, VA 2mo ago $189,200–$372,900 [Celonis](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/celonis) Builds what the customer runs ### [Lead Deployment Architect - AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/927db00cfcddf0a0) Redwood City, CA Hybrid New · 2d ago $195,000–$215,000 [Neo4j](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/neo4j) Builds what the customer runs ### [Principal AI Solutions Architect](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b057169d1f8a6744) US Remote 8d ago $220,000–$310,000 [Sparq](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sparq) Builds what the customer runs ### [Principal AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/fdf265823c94b869) US Remote 13d ago Pay not posted [Zipline](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/zipline) Builds what the customer runs ### [Staff Software Engineer – Integrations Platform](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/707396a854796719) South San Francisco, CA 4w ago $180,000–$270,000 [Snorkel AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/snorkel-ai) Builds what the customer runs ### [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 [Mozilla](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/mozilla) Builds what the customer runs ### [Staff Product Engineer, Enterprise AI ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e9307d8ee55893ca) US Remote 5w ago $185,000–$220,000 [SambaNova Systems](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sambanova-systems) Builds what the customer runs ### [Senior Principal AI Solutions Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/eec3c379318643c7) San Jose, CA 5w ago $234,000–$286,000 [Sierra](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sierra) Builds what the customer runs ### [Software Engineer, Agent - Public Sector](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7f3a7c3d43682b97) San Francisco, CA On-site 6w ago $180,000–$390,000 [Focused](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/focused) Builds what the customer runs ### [Lead Agent Engineer (Langchain)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5bff43269bd70426) US Remote 6w ago $175,000–$250,000 [Red Cell Partners](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/red-cell-partners) Builds what the customer runs ### [Staff Applied ML Engineer, Federal/National Security](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d7dbd0967123dff7) Washington, DC Remote 6w ago $180,000–$240,000 [Crusoe](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/crusoe) Builds what the customer runs ### [Senior Staff Applied AI Inference Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5d67843846305b6d) San Francisco, CA On-site 6w ago $250,000–$300,000 [AHEAD](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ahead) Builds what the customer runs ### [Principal Technical Consultant - AI/ Azure Cloud Platform Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/278fbceacb765436) US Remote 2mo ago Pay not posted [Focused](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/focused) Builds what the customer runs ### [Lead Agent Engineer (Langchain)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/cd194c5753d159f2) Chicago, IL Hybrid 6w ago $175,000–$250,000 [Restaurant365](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/restaurant365) Builds what the customer runs ### [Senior Customer Architect](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4b9c23c20a3d39bd) Irvine, CA Hybrid 2mo ago $130,000–$174,000 [Crusoe](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/crusoe) Builds what the customer runs ### [Staff Applied AI Inference Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f6b6957db986de8d) San Francisco, CA On-site 1mo ago $215,000–$260,000 [phData](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/phdata) Builds what the customer runs ### [ Principal Machine Learning Solutions Architect](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ab034e10862d5318) US Remote 3mo ago Pay not posted [Focused](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/focused) Builds what the customer runs ### [Lead Agent Engineer (Langchain)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7cf6884582fe8ca8) Denver, CO Hybrid 6w ago $175,000–$250,000 [Percepta](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/percepta) Builds what the customer runs ### [Founding Applied AI Engineer - Data](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/bd309b8539deca60) New York, NY On-site 3mo ago $150,000–$400,000 [Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai) Builds what the customer runs ### [Staff Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ce65194d3b4765e8) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 more 3mo ago $265,000–$331,000 [Get new postings like these by email](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%3FcompanyStage%3Dlate%26level%3Dstaff&placement=alert) New staff-level fde and deployment jobs at later-stage private companies 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 staff-level FDE and deployment jobs at later-stage private companies pay? 130 of 143 postings state a pay range. The median is $244,000, and half of them sit between $210,000 and $283,000, from 67 companies. ### How much experience do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs at later-stage private companies require? Of 143 postings, 103 state a minimum number of years, from 61 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 52 of them. The rest ask for 10 or more years (30), 3 to 5 years (19) or under 3 years (2). ### Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE and deployment jobs at later-stage private companies? These 143 postings come from 76 companies. The employers with the most postings are [Deloitte US](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/deloitte-us) (9), [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) (8), [Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) (6), [Databricks](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/databricks) (5) and [Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai) (5). ### Are staff-level FDE and deployment jobs at later-stage private companies remote? 36 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 49 are hybrid and 17 are on-site. The remaining 41 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 58 of the 143 postings. Counted over the 143 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey. 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