> 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 · Individual contributor

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?disclosed=1&management=ic&page=15

1,184 forward deployed engineer jobs and related deployment roles from 598 employers. Compare posted pay, locations and work arrangements, then read the employer’s posting.

Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs).

**1,184** postings · **598** companies · median **$180,000** · middle half $152,000–$215,000 · read Nov 8, 2026

[Helios](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/helios)

### [Applied Intelligence Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5981309e6f071152)

New York, NY On-site 2mo ago

$165,000–$225,000

[Seekr](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/seekr)

### [AI Engineer, Public Sector](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3974fa16dd83f70a)

Reston, VA Hybrid 2mo ago

$185,000–$225,000

[Paradigm](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/paradigm)

### [Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d3cfd9fa982cc067)

San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago

$180,000–$280,000

[NVIDIA](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nvidia)

### [Senior MLOps Engineer - DSX Enablement](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d111a9977bdaacbb)

Santa Clara, CA · Seattle, WA · US remote Remote 2mo ago

$184,000–$356,500

[Amplitude](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amplitude)

### [Senior Software Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/791d853fa16b65d1)

San Francisco, CA Hybrid 2mo ago

$183,000–$276,000

[Booz Allen](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/booz-allen)

### [Agentic Systems Full-Stack Software Engineer, Senior](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6ca87a7f8074a321)

Fayetteville, NC 2mo ago

$86,800–$198,000

[Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril)

### [Mission Software Engineer, Senior](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/af0e86556d5bb67d)

Reston, VA 2mo ago

$220,000–$292,000

[Narmi](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/narmi)

### [Software Engineer - Professional Services](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6da7ec3092ab2c51)

New York, NY Hybrid 2mo ago

$91,000–$110,000

[Dark Wolf Solutions](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/dark-wolf-solutions)

### [AI Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b68e811302382d5d)

Chantilly, VA · Herndon, VA On-site 2mo ago

$120,000–$160,000

[HavocAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/havocai)

### [Field Software Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b6617d82b06e86d3)

US Remote 2mo ago

$150,000–$175,000

[Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril)

### [Mission Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/80e9a91a8ee506ca)

Reston, VA 2mo ago

$191,000–$254,000

[Narmi](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/narmi)

### [Senior Software Engineer - Professional Services](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e21e2a1ccb895111)

New York, NY Hybrid 2mo ago

$167,000–$196,000

[Sage Care Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sage-care-inc)

### [Epic Integration Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/26789ed1a05e0588)

Palo Alto, CA Hybrid 2mo ago

$145,000–$175,000

[Ambral](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ambral)

### [Member of Technical Staff (New Grad)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/69c5253c0fb82d6b)

New York, NY On-site 2mo ago

$140,000–$175,000

[Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture)

### [Senior Knowledge Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/71eee136e4139061)

Dallas, TX · Columbus, OH · +3 more Hybrid 2mo ago

$80,400–$293,800

[OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai)

### [Full Stack Software Engineer - Codex for Finance](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/719e9ed675575cbe)

New York, NY Hybrid 2mo ago

$347,000–$385,000

[Zus Health](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/zus-health)

### [Staff Integrations Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f395eb966bbbdb02)

Boston, MA Remote 2mo ago

$160,000–$200,000

[Fabric](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/fabric)

### [Technical Solutions Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c03bb9c39bd753f4)

US Remote 2mo ago

$140,000–$170,000

[Booz Allen](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/booz-allen)

### [AI Software Developer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/11239d2a0d46d6da)

San Diego, CA 2mo ago

$69,300–$158,000

[OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai)

### [Backend Software Engineer - Codex for Finance](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3b68312a1c4c0445)

San Francisco, CA Hybrid 2mo ago

$347,000–$385,000

[Cascade AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/cascade-ai)

### [Implementation Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/40d9998633e5a290)

Bellevue, WA Hybrid 3mo ago

$90,000–$125,000

[Lovable](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/lovable)

### [Partner Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/df03085c8d553a3c)

New York, NY On-site 3mo ago

$199,000–$271,000

[Booz Allen](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/booz-allen)

### [AI Software Developer, Senior](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/aa3c84c432f5bd2e)

San Diego, CA 2mo ago

$86,900–$198,000

[Nearform](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nearform)

### [Senior Software Engineer - React & Python](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/922cad87ea14e6c8)

US Remote 3mo ago

$150,000–$180,000

[Firecrawl](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/firecrawl)

### [Implementation Specialist](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6fc09f980b55256d)

San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago

$209,000–$265,000

[Striveworks](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/striveworks)

### [Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Active Secret Clearance)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a58e0daafcbeb6f3)

Austin, TX Hybrid 3mo ago

$185,000–$230,000

[Booz Allen](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/booz-allen)

### [AI/ML Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3d0b7cd0ca4d8261)

Chantilly, VA 2mo ago

$99,000–$225,000

[Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai)

### [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

[Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril)

### [Senior Ground Software Engineer, Space](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d2667d5f64604fa9)

Chantilly, VA 3mo ago

$191,000–$254,000

[Squint](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/squint)

### [Deployment Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/87c003c8d36a7a5c)

San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago

$180,000–$220,000

[Sift](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sift)

### [Application Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/14809e80210a38c9)

San Francisco, CA · Los Angeles, CA Hybrid 3mo ago

$125,000–$175,000

[Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai)

### [Senior Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ad5a80e79ff38092)

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 more 3mo ago

$216,000–$270,000

[Leidos](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/leidos)

### [Application Developer (SWE-2)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/09576c893348c953)

Fort Meade, MD 3mo ago

$87,100–$157,450

[Flow Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/flow-engineering)

### [Senior Software Engineer - Integrations](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/82b6f49d675334f9)

San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago

$190,000–$250,000

[Striveworks](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/striveworks)

### [Senior Data Scientist (Active Secret Clearance)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f89e150c2f251b77)

Tacoma, WA Hybrid 3mo ago

$185,000–$230,000

[Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai)

### [Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/63df41e380085308)

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 more 3mo ago

$180,000–$225,000

[Leidos](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/leidos)

### [Senior AI Engineer (SWE-3)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/533c6aac1365061d)

Linthicum Heights, MD 3mo ago

$107,900–$195,050

[Decagon](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/decagon)

### [Agent Deployment Engineer - Spanish Speaking](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3a43d393a714090b)

San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago

$175,000–$230,000

[Striveworks](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/striveworks)

### [Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Active Secret Clearance)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5a5844b6cb2a5b62)

Tacoma, WA Hybrid 3mo ago

$185,000–$230,000

[Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai)

### [Senior Mission Software Engineer, Public Sector](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/423f9f8c01b5b901)

Austin, TX · Colorado Springs, CO · +4 more Hybrid 3mo ago

$186,000–$279,000

691 of these 1,184 jobs build what the customer runs.

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## Frequently asked questions

### What do FDE jobs pay?

1,184 of 1,184 postings state a pay range. The median is $180,000, and half of them sit between $152,000 and $215,000, from 598 companies.

### How much experience do FDE jobs require?

Of 1,184 postings, 607 state a minimum number of years, from 387 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 359 of them. The rest ask for under 3 years (119), 6 to 9 years (111) or 10 or more years (18).

### Which companies are hiring for FDE jobs?

These 1,184 postings come from 598 companies. The employers with the most postings are [Palantir](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/palantir) (61), [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) (32), [Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) (23), [Booz Allen](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/booz-allen) (22) and [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) (19).

### Are FDE jobs remote?

192 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 299 are hybrid and 351 are on-site. The remaining 342 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 461 of the 1,184 postings.

Counted over the 1,184 postings in this search.

Employer postings · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method)

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