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# Forward deployed engineer (FDE) jobs in the US

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?disclosed=1&region=sf-bay-area&page=8

750 forward deployed engineer jobs and related deployment roles from 356 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).

**750** postings · **356** companies · median **$214,000**, half $180,000–$245,000

Postings read on November 6, 2026

[Sleuth Insights](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sleuth-insights)

### [Senior Software / Data Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8680836a0da5ee33)

San Francisco, CA · Los Angeles, CA Hybrid 13d ago

$170,000–$210,000

[Salesforce](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/salesforce)

### [Sr. Enterprise Architect - Agentforce for Operations](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/27cc6f9a38865847)

San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +4 more 2w ago

$148,500–$285,800

[Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google)

### [Staff Applied AI Agent Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/16a62232639586e6)

Sunnyvale, CA · Kirkland, WA 2w ago

$207,000–$300,000

[MongoDB](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/mongodb)

### [Senior Forward Deployment Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ee18b4ffe9431fe6)

San Francisco, CA · Seattle, WA · +5 more Remote 2w ago

$126,000–$248,000

[Sierra](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sierra)

### [Software Engineer, Horizon](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/391bab75cb85020c)

San Francisco, CA On-site 2w ago

$230,000–$390,000

[Apple](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/apple)

### [Senior Platform Engineer, Find My](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/bcc832bcdee76cf6)

Cupertino, CA 2w ago

$150,400–$277,600

[Noble Machines](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/noble-machines)

### [Principal Solutions Architect ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/444496c89587b436)

Sunnyvale, CA 2w ago

$200,000–$350,000

[SpaceX](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/spacex)

### [Operations Engineer (Starshield Products)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/37db35ee2b38bbf5)

Palo Alto, CA 2w ago

$110,000–$175,000

[Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google)

### [AI Customer and Partner Solutions Engineer, Cloud Applied AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7c6b3d59186ae60b)

Sunnyvale, CA · Kirkland, WA 2w ago

$183,000–$265,000

[Uare.ai](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/uare-ai)

### [Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Government (IL5)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/873b413fb92b5e7e)

San Francisco, CA · Los Altos, CA On-site 2w ago

$200,000–$260,000

[Salesforce](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/salesforce)

### [Lead Software Engineer, AI Labs (Product and Customer Facing)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2d1c287890786103)

San Francisco, CA · Washington, DC · +1 more 2w ago

$148,500–$344,700

[Persona](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/persona)

### [Field Product Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/40116663481493ba)

San Francisco, CA Hybrid 2w ago

$100,000–$110,000

[ServiceNow](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/servicenow)

### [Senior Staff Software Engineer-Voice AI Agent Prompting](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/58fd89c54573cb0f)

Santa Clara, CA 3w ago

$190,900–$334,100

[Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google)

### [Senior AI/ML Engineer, Cloud AI Research](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/37629b31ce74e34c)

Mountain View, CA 3w ago

$174,000–$252,000

[Distyl AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/distyl-ai)

### [Infrastructure Engineer, Customer Delivery](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/520c15eff228e659)

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 3w ago

$200,000–$250,000

[Titan](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/titan)

### [Software Engineer - Applied AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d60dbdf9f047bc4f)

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site 3w ago

$180,000–$480,000

[ServiceNow](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/servicenow)

### [Staff Software Engineer-Voice Connectivity](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d190e9541ee470eb)

Santa Clara, CA 3w ago

$166,500–$291,400

[Avathon (formerly SparkCognition)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/avathon-formerly-sparkcognition)

### [Engineering Lead, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/134ddbfeed5b6395)

Pleasanton, CA On-site 3w ago

$160,000–$220,000

[Clockwork Systems](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/clockwork-systems)

### [Senior Software Engineer, TorchPass Product Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/15c23388a215b20d)

Palo Alto, CA On-site 4w ago

$150,000–$230,000

[Meta](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/meta)

### [Business Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/61f630e50014b285)

Menlo Park, CA · New York, NY 4w ago

$149,000–$210,000

[Zipline](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/zipline)

### [Staff Software Engineer – Integrations Platform](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/707396a854796719)

South San Francisco, CA 4w ago

$180,000–$270,000

[Sierra](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sierra)

### [Software Engineer, Agent (Spanish speaking)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/40c6ef60c2833ae8)

San Francisco, CA On-site 4w ago

$180,000–$390,000

[ServiceNow](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/servicenow)

### [Senior Staff Applications Development Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8ba62f1e444d9ce7)

Santa Clara, CA 4w ago

$190,900–$334,100

[Pulley](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pulley)

### [AI Operations Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e641d7edbdd4483a)

San Francisco, CA Hybrid 4w ago

$150,000–$190,000

[Snorkel AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/snorkel-ai)

### [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

[Matroid](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/matroid)

### [Deep Learning Field Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f9ccf1587a31f7ec)

Palo Alto, CA On-site 4w ago

$150,000–$300,000

[ServiceNow](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/servicenow)

### [Staff Software Engineer_Voice Connectivity ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ccba487c4361b81a)

Santa Clara, CA 4w ago

$166,500–$291,400

[Namespace](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/namespace)

### [Customer-Facing Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/52bdd35fc2690aa8)

San Francisco, CA Hybrid 5w ago

$150,000–$220,000

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

### [Implementation Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2e65f2169604a778)

San Francisco, CA Hybrid 5w ago

$90,000–$125,000

[Matroid](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/matroid)

### [Senior VLM & VFM Field Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8f13fd828ebf1e20)

Palo Alto, CA On-site 4w ago

$200,000–$350,000

[Niantic Spatial](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/niantic-spatial)

### [Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Embodied AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/19e6cf58dd331caa)

San Francisco, CA Hybrid 5w ago

$207,000–$265,000

[SambaNova Systems](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sambanova-systems)

### [Senior Principal AI Solutions Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/eec3c379318643c7)

San Jose, CA 5w ago

$234,000–$286,000

[Bespoke Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/bespoke-labs)

### [MTS, Post-Training (Enterprise)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/96da9294487106dd)

Mountain View, CA · San Francisco, CA On-site 5w ago

$300,000–$350,000

[Salesforce](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/salesforce)

### [Value Acceleration Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d29e7c234296d940)

San Francisco, CA · Palo Alto, CA · +2 more 5w ago

$117,200–$246,000

[ServiceNow](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/servicenow)

### [Staff Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ccce31439d4dfefe)

Santa Clara, CA 6w ago

$166,500–$291,400

[Sierra](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sierra)

### [Software Engineer, Agent - Tech, Media & Telecom](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2923518d5a20cafe)

San Francisco, CA On-site 6w ago

$180,000–$390,000

[Crusoe](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/crusoe)

### [Senior Staff Applied AI Inference Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5d67843846305b6d)

San Francisco, CA On-site 6w ago

$250,000–$300,000

[Salesforce](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/salesforce)

### [Forward Deployment Engineer LMTS](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c03bb08c0dd417e7)

San Francisco, CA · Bellevue, WA · +1 more 6w ago

$172,500–$285,800

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

### [Senior Applications Software Engineer, Perception and Sensor Fusion](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/561089c546feb404)

Santa Clara, CA 6w ago

$152,000–$287,500

[Sierra](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sierra)

### [Software Engineer, Agent - Travel , Transportation & Hospitality](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c9c7e1018bc4a91a)

San Francisco, CA On-site 6w ago

$180,000–$390,000

433 of 750 build what the customer runs.

[Compare pay across US FDE roles →](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary)

## Frequently asked questions

### What do FDE jobs pay?

750 of 750 postings state a pay range. The median is $214,000, and half of them sit between $180,000 and $245,000, from 356 companies.

### How much experience do FDE jobs require?

Of 750 postings, 440 state a minimum number of years, from 236 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 234 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (111), under 3 years (59) or 10 or more years (36).

### Which companies are hiring for FDE jobs?

These 750 postings come from 356 companies. The employers with the most postings are [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) (29), [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) (26), [NVIDIA](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nvidia) (22), [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) (21) and [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) (19).

### Are FDE jobs remote?

66 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 225 are hybrid and 237 are on-site. The remaining 222 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 275 of the 750 postings.

Counted over the 750 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)

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