> 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. # Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?level=staff&management=ic&page=2 42 staff-level forward deployed engineer and deployment jobs for individual contributors, from 40 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $199,000 to $255,000. **42** postings · **40** companies · 32 state pay: median **$227,000**, half $199,000–$255,000 Postings read on November 6, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026 [Apple](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/apple) ### [Staff Software Engineer (Applied AI)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f561d0a23f932b54) Cupertino, CA 6mo ago $194,600–$293,900 [Turing](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/turing) Leads the deployment team ### [Staff Research Engineer, Enterprise Knowledge](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/06f45dde0a490569) US · city not listed 11mo ago $250,000–$400,000 · OTE 23 of 42 build for teams inside the company. [Compare pay across US FDE roles →](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary) ## Frequently asked questions ### What do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors pay? 32 of 42 postings state a pay range. The median is $227,000, and half of them sit between $199,000 and $255,000, from 30 companies. ### How much experience do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors require? Of 42 postings, 25 state a minimum number of years, from 25 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 13 of them. The rest ask for 3 to 5 years (6), 10 or more years (4) or under 3 years (2). ### Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors? These 42 postings come from 40 companies. The employers with the most postings are [Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) (2), [Crusoe](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/crusoe) (2), [Apple](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/apple) (1), [Applied Computing](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/applied-computing) (1) and [CHAOS Industries](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/chaos-industries) (1). ### Are staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors remote? 15 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 7 are hybrid and 7 are on-site. The remaining 13 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 9 of the 42 postings. Counted over the 42 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey. Employer postings · Responsibility levels reflect our reading of the work, not just the employer’s title. · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method) ## Related pages - [FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?management=ic) · 1,712 jobs - [Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?level=staff&management=lead) · 356 jobs - [Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for people managers](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?level=staff&management=manager) · 85 jobs - [Every FDE job search](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/browse)