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# Senior FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads in SF Bay Area

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?level=senior&management=lead&region=sf-bay-area

303 senior forward deployed engineer and deployment jobs for technical leads in the SF Bay Area, from 187 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $185,000 to $243,000.

**303** postings · **187** companies · 243 state pay: median **$215,000**, half $185,000–$243,000

Postings read on November 6, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026

[jeffreym-consulting](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/jeffreym-consulting)

### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/160095c9c45ee8af)

San Francisco, CA On-site New · Today

$180,000–$250,000

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

### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Cyber - SF](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5a5eb13cea3121c0)

San Francisco, CA Hybrid New · Today

$185,000–$300,000

[Databricks](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/databricks)

### [Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer - Public Sector](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/440870dea6def209)

Berkeley, CA · Kansas City, MO · +1 more Remote New · Today

$182,000–$250,208

[Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws)

### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0ebf30b12510c57d)

East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 more New · 3d ago

$168,100–$261,500

[Concurrence](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/concurrence)

### [Senior Applied AI Engineer (Forward Deployed) [NYC or SF]](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d7f8666921b5b55f)

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site New · 4d ago

$200,000–$260,000

[Pylon](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pylon)

### [Lead Forward Deployed Product Manager](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/95e70e5ddcd3a698)

Palo Alto, CA · New York, NY On-site 8d ago

Pay not posted

[Cohere](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/cohere)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Inference ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/23716a9ac7c3670f)

San Francisco, CA Remote 8d ago

$240,000–$415,000

[Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws)

### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/11d3959b74fe7867)

San Francisco, CA · Boston, MA · +4 more 7d ago

$168,100–$261,500

[Zuora, Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/zuora-inc)

### [Sr Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1783cedf51d0c8c8)

Foster City, CA 8d ago

$208,600–$312,900

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

### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Google Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4d1c7448b8630fd7)

Mountain View, CA · New York, NY 9d ago

$174,000–$252,000

[Medra](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/medra)

### [Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8d9b4f103b1afb83)

San Francisco, CA On-site 9d ago

$130,000–$210,000

[6sense](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/6sense)

### [Sr. Data Scientist, Forward-Deployed](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8eac81fe1ac3dfde)

San Francisco, CA Remote 9d ago

$168,349.5–$230,912.6

[OpenAI Deployment Company](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai-deployment-company)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer - Cleared - US](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c19d1fdb2baf1e9b)

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 9d ago

$170,000–$400,000

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

### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Open Models](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e29d3d2ea75f914e)

Santa Clara, CA 10d ago

$184,000–$356,500

[Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws)

### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/110f7227e28583f5)

East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 more 10d ago

$168,100–$261,500

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

### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - AI Infra - SF](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c7485e204e45fc68)

San Francisco, CA Hybrid 10d ago

$185,000–$300,000

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

### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e0ebbfc19bc89fae)

San Francisco, CA 13d ago

Pay not posted

[Together AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/together-ai)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Post-Training](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3c12aeeb37e0d254)

San Francisco, CA 13d ago

$270,000–$300,000 · OTE

[Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws)

### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/780f6825731d9f9e)

Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +4 more 2w ago

$168,100–$261,500

[Caylent](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/caylent)

### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer | New York or San Francisco (Onsite)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ac5fd29248cce193)

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site 2w ago

$136,000–$216,000

[PwC (US)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pwc-us)

### [Forward Deployed Software Engineer-Palantir Foundry-Senior Associate](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8f2f106eae6e8759)

San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +57 more Hybrid 2w ago

$77,000–$202,000

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

### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Open Models](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/fae2b767f82c2991)

Santa Clara, CA 2w ago

$184,000–$356,500

[Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/818aaa7b6b639645)

East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +2 more 2w ago

$143,700–$223,600

[Jade Global](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/jade-global)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer - Architect](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/64435bb27ed329f7)

San Jose, CA 2w ago

Pay not posted

[Ditto](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ditto)

### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Platform ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c7c329b94a1f3f61)

San Francisco, CA Hybrid 3w ago

$188,000–$240,000

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

### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/96694cce5cd5c7c7)

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

$180,000–$480,000

[Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws)

### [Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/799ec8c403091b46)

East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 more 2w ago

$168,100–$261,500

[SalesPatriot](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/salespatriot)

### [Lead Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e269756eb6cb8219)

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +2 more On-site 3w ago

$150,000–$220,000

[Cloudflare](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/cloudflare)

### [Senior Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/df0b7e1d2651bcb5)

San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX Hybrid 4w ago

$194,000–$266,000

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

### [Forward Deployed Solution Engineer – Applied AI FDE](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1a6269874b4bdbd0)

Santa Clara, CA Remote 4w ago

$201,300–$352,300

[Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws)

### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b62c0b50244e3d3f)

East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 more 3w ago

$168,100–$261,500

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

### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Geo Auto](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0125b607a2d9c80e)

Mountain View, CA · Seattle, WA 4w ago

$152,000–$221,000

[Ascend](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ascend)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/31b6c47f72c5d05c)

San Francisco, CA On-site 4w ago

$170,000–$210,000

[Column](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/column)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8708e316d3429f3b)

San Francisco, CA On-site 4w ago

$130,000–$250,000

[Dryft](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/dryft)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer - US](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/731b4e96e4cfa35f)

San Francisco, CA On-site 4w ago

Pay not posted

[Qurrent](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/qurrent)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6a18268d0bd57ccf)

San Francisco, CA 4w ago

$120,000–$210,000

[Campfire](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/campfire)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f935f5733b809a63)

San Francisco, CA On-site 5w ago

$180,000–$220,000

[MGT Insurance](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/mgt-insurance)

### [Senior Product Manager, Forward Deployed Platform](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e539616670aec4ca)

San Francisco, CA · Denver, CO · +1 more Hybrid 5w ago

$190,000–$300,000

[OpenAI Deployment Company](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai-deployment-company)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer - Cybersecurity - US](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/36ce38dd6590bdc5)

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 5w ago

$170,000–$400,000

[Auterion](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/auterion)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3c5a59c2826f0e93)

San Francisco, CA 5w ago

Pay not posted

176 of 303 build what the customer runs.

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## Frequently asked questions

### What do senior FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads in SF Bay Area pay?

243 of 303 postings state a pay range. The median is $215,000, and half of them sit between $185,000 and $243,000, from 141 companies.

### How much experience do senior FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads in SF Bay Area require?

Of 303 postings, 191 state a minimum number of years, from 123 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 114 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (52), under 3 years (18) or 10 or more years (7).

### Which companies are hiring for senior FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads in SF Bay Area?

These 303 postings come from 187 companies. The employers with the most postings are [NVIDIA](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nvidia) (18), [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) (13), [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) (10), [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) (10) and [Databricks](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/databricks) (10).

### Are senior FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads in SF Bay Area remote?

34 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 84 are hybrid and 93 are on-site. The remaining 92 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 132 of the 303 postings.

Counted over the 303 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.

Employer postings · Locations cover the metro area, not only the city. Responsibility levels reflect our reading of the work, not just the employer’s title. · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method)

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