> 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 that lead deployment teams at later-stage private companies Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?companyStage=late&role=leadership&page=2 48 forward deployed engineer jobs that lead deployment teams at later-stage private companies, from 27 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $241,000 to $325,000. **48** postings · **27** companies · 42 state pay: median **$281,000**, half $241,000–$325,000 Postings read on November 6, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026 [Turing](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/turing) ### [AI Engagement Lead](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/51d33e8ea1efb5d6) New York, NY Hybrid 2mo ago $225,000–$255,000 [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) ### [Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Enterprise)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9b612508e6525cc3) New York, NY Hybrid 4mo ago $251,000–$335,000 [Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) ### [Lead Mission Software Engineer, EW](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/29ffba50995e18dc) Costa Mesa, CA 4mo ago $220,000–$292,000 [Indicium AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/indicium-ai) ### [Vice President of Agentic AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e428b809047fab6d) New York, NY 6mo ago $220,000–$350,000 [Sierra](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sierra) ### [Engineering Manager, Agent](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7aa24228c9c7e778) New York, NY On-site 6mo ago $280,000–$410,000 [Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai) ### [Frontier Agent Engineering Manager, Enterprise](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/443e90f636abe8b6) San Francisco, CA 9mo ago $265,000–$331,000 [Turing](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/turing) ### [Staff Research Engineer, Enterprise Knowledge](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/06f45dde0a490569) US · city not listed 12mo ago $250,000–$400,000 · OTE [ElevenLabs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/elevenlabs) ### [Deployment Strategist Lead - USA](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8d0349a5c302e2b9) New York, NY Remote 6w ago Pay not posted All 48 lead deployment teams. [Compare pay across US FDE roles →](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary) ## Frequently asked questions ### What do FDE jobs that lead deployment teams at later-stage private companies pay? 42 of 48 postings state a pay range. The median is $281,000, and half of them sit between $241,000 and $325,000, from 22 companies. ### How much experience do FDE jobs that lead deployment teams at later-stage private companies require? Of 48 postings, 33 state a minimum number of years, from 18 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 14 of them. The rest ask for 10 or more years (14) or 3 to 5 years (5). ### Which companies are hiring for FDE jobs that lead deployment teams at later-stage private companies? These 48 postings come from 27 companies. The employers with the most postings are [Deloitte US](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/deloitte-us) (8), [Hadrian](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/hadrian) (4), [PwC (US)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pwc-us) (4), [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) (3) and [Snorkel AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/snorkel-ai) (3). ### Are FDE jobs that lead deployment teams at later-stage private companies remote? 5 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 9 are hybrid and 9 are on-site. The remaining 25 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 23 of the 48 postings. Counted over the 48 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey. Employer postings · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method) ## Related pages - [FDE and deployment jobs at later-stage private companies](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?companyStage=late) · 867 jobs - [FDE jobs that build what the customer runs at later-stage private companies](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?companyStage=late&role=builds-for-customers) · 502 jobs - [FDE jobs that build for teams inside the company at later-stage private companies](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?companyStage=late&role=internal-deployment) · 137 jobs - [FDE jobs that integrate and configure the product at later-stage private companies](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?companyStage=late&role=technical-delivery) · 91 jobs - [Every FDE job search](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/browse)