> 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.

# Senior FDE and deployment jobs involving proof of concept

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1,004 senior forward deployed engineer and deployment jobs involving proof of concept, from 545 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $163,000 to $230,000.

**1,004** postings · **545** companies · **740** with pay · median **$196,000** · middle half $163,000–$230,000 · read Nov 8, 2026

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### [Marketing Forward Deployment Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/78f44fdd118d889a)

Seattle, WA Hybrid 2mo ago

$179,500–$269,300

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### [Deployed Engineer (Early Career- SF)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/cf677e9e9ca98360)

San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago

$160,000–$185,000 · OTE

[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

604 of these 1,004 jobs build what the customer runs.

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## Frequently asked questions

### What do senior FDE and deployment jobs involving proof of concept pay?

740 of 1,004 postings state a pay range. The median is $196,000, and half of them sit between $163,000 and $230,000, from 369 companies.

### How much experience do senior FDE and deployment jobs involving proof of concept require?

Of 1,004 postings, 611 state a minimum number of years, from 372 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 367 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (155), under 3 years (65) or 10 or more years (24).

### Which companies are hiring for senior FDE and deployment jobs involving proof of concept?

These 1,004 postings come from 545 companies. The employers with the most postings are [Deloitte US](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/deloitte-us) (54), [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) (29), [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) (28), [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) (19) and [SpaceX](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/spacex) (15).

### Are senior FDE and deployment jobs involving proof of concept remote?

223 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 229 are hybrid and 207 are on-site. The remaining 345 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 427 of the 1,004 postings.

Counted over the 1,004 postings in this search.

Employer postings · Responsibility levels reflect our reading of the work, not just the employer’s title. Coding scope, project stages and who the work serves are our reading of each job description. · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method)

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