> 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 public companies Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?companyStage=public&level=staff&page=5 165 staff-level forward deployed engineer and deployment jobs at public companies, from 82 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $196,000 to $236,000. **165** postings · **82** companies · 145 state pay: median **$220,000**, half $196,000–$236,000 Postings read on November 6, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026 [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 [Faraday Future](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/faraday-future) Builds for teams inside the company ### [Senior AI & Business Operations Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/52f0d9a5d487411f) El Segundo, CA 6mo ago $130,000–$150,000 [Apple](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/apple) Builds for teams inside the company ### [GenAI Solutions Architect, Customer Systems](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c464568d0c188bee) Sunnyvale, CA 8mo ago Pay not posted [T-Mobile](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/t-mobile) Builds for teams inside the company ### [Principal Forward Deployment Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/11ace3a67769cea9) Bellevue, WA 3mo ago $164,500–$296,700 [T-Mobile](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/t-mobile) Leads the deployment team ### [Sr Manager, Forward Deployment Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9c1404b6f7f57611) Bellevue, WA 3mo ago $176,000–$317,400 74 of 165 build what the customer runs. [Compare pay across US FDE roles →](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary) ## Frequently asked questions ### What do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs at public companies pay? 145 of 165 postings state a pay range. The median is $220,000, and half of them sit between $196,000 and $236,000, from 67 companies. ### How much experience do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs at public companies require? Of 165 postings, 136 state a minimum number of years, from 69 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 67 of them. The rest ask for 10 or more years (35), 3 to 5 years (32) or under 3 years (2). ### Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE and deployment jobs at public companies? These 165 postings come from 82 companies. The employers with the most postings are [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) (22), [ServiceNow](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/servicenow) (8), [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) (6), [Snowflake](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/snowflake) (6) and [Apple](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/apple) (4). ### Are staff-level FDE and deployment jobs at public companies remote? 26 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 35 are hybrid and 15 are on-site. The remaining 89 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 68 of the 165 postings. Counted over the 165 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey. Employer postings · Responsibility levels reflect our reading of the work, not just the employer’s title. · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method) ## Related pages - [FDE and deployment jobs at public companies](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?companyStage=public) · 750 jobs - [Senior FDE and deployment jobs at public companies](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?companyStage=public&level=senior) · 526 jobs - [Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs at later-stage private companies](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?companyStage=late&level=staff) · 143 jobs - [Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs at growth-stage companies](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?companyStage=growth&level=staff) · 46 jobs - [Every FDE job search](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/browse)