> 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 serving external customers Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?level=staff&recipient=external&page=8 284 staff-level forward deployed engineer and deployment jobs serving external customers, from 173 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $205,000 to $275,000. **284** postings · **173** companies · 237 state pay: median **$230,000**, half $205,000–$275,000 Postings read on November 6, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026 [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 12mo ago $250,000–$400,000 · OTE [Uncountable](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/uncountable) Leads the deployment team ### [Engineering Manager, Implementations](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ed3c833f051d9258) New York, NY 17mo ago $130,000–$150,000 [Vannevar Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/vannevar-labs) Leads the deployment team ### [Enterprise Technical Lead (Clearance Required)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f690faf1f1a405cd) Washington, DC · San Diego, CA · +1 more Remote 19mo ago $150,000–$215,000 [T-Mobile](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/t-mobile) Builds for teams inside the company ### [Principal Forward Deployment Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/11ace3a67769cea9) Bellevue, WA 3mo ago $164,500–$296,700 172 of 284 build what the customer runs. [Compare pay across US FDE roles →](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary) ## Frequently asked questions ### What do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers pay? 237 of 284 postings state a pay range. The median is $230,000, and half of them sit between $205,000 and $275,000, from 138 companies. ### How much experience do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers require? Of 284 postings, 197 state a minimum number of years, from 129 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 96 of them. The rest ask for 10 or more years (55) or 3 to 5 years (46). ### Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers? These 284 postings come from 173 companies. The employers with the most postings are [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) (16), [Deloitte US](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/deloitte-us) (9), [CapTech Consulting](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/captech-consulting) (8), [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) (7) and [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) (6). ### Are staff-level FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers remote? 60 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 90 are hybrid and 44 are on-site. The remaining 90 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 135 of the 284 postings. Counted over the 284 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. 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) ## Related pages - [FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?recipient=external) · 2,530 jobs - [Mid-level FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?level=mid&recipient=external) · 127 jobs - [Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs serving internal teams](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?level=staff&recipient=internal) · 121 jobs - [Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers and internal teams](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?level=staff&recipient=both) · 75 jobs - [Every FDE job search](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/browse)