> 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 · Proof of concept Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?disclosed=1&stage=poc&page=25 962 forward deployed engineer jobs and related deployment roles from 454 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). **962** postings · **454** companies · median **$198,000** · middle half $163,000–$235,000 · read Nov 10, 2026 [Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai) Proves it works before the sale ### [Deployment Strategist, Space Systems Command](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7bd71aa29083eac6) Los Angeles, CA On-site 4mo ago $203,200–$254,000 [LangChain](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/langchain) Proves it works before the sale ### [Deployed Engineer (Seattle)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e03d5804545775cf) Seattle, WA 6mo ago $165,000–$380,000 · OTE 532 of these 962 jobs build what the customer runs. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%3Fdisclosed%3D1%26stage%3Dpoc%26page%3D25&placement=assist) [Get new postings like these by email](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%3Fdisclosed%3D1%26stage%3Dpoc%26page%3D25&placement=alert) Alerts for “FDE jobs · Proof of concept” go out once you have an account. [Compare pay across US FDE roles →](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary) ## Frequently asked questions ### What do FDE jobs pay? 962 of 962 postings state a pay range. The median is $198,000, and half of them sit between $163,000 and $235,000, from 454 companies. ### How much experience do FDE jobs require? Of 962 postings, 615 state a minimum number of years, from 326 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 324 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (179), under 3 years (58) or 10 or more years (54). ### Which companies are hiring for FDE jobs? These 962 postings come from 454 companies. The employers with the most postings are [Deloitte US](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/deloitte-us) (62), [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) (36), [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) (31), [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) (28) and [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) (14). ### Are FDE jobs remote? 167 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 251 are hybrid and 178 are on-site. The remaining 366 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 418 of the 962 postings. Counted over the 962 postings in this search. Employer postings · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method) ## Related pages - [FDE and deployment jobs involving production implementation](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?stage=implementation) · 3,208 jobs - [FDE and deployment jobs with production coding](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?coding=production) · 2,556 jobs - [Senior FDE and deployment jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?level=senior) · 2,543 jobs - [FDE salary in the US](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary) - [Companies hiring FDEs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies) - [FDE jobs by city](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/browse/location) - [Every FDE job search](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/browse)