> 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. # FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors serving external customers Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?management=ic&recipient=external&page=19 1,271 forward deployed engineer and deployment jobs for individual contributors serving external customers, from 692 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $154,000 to $215,000. **1,271** postings · **692** companies · **859** with pay · median **$181,000** · middle half $154,000–$215,000 · read Nov 6, 2026 Updated Nov 7, 2026 [Maxima](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/maxima) ### [Deployment Engineer - San Mateo](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3321c5afac6894e6) San Mateo, CA On-site 1mo ago Pay not posted [Crusoe](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/crusoe) ### [Staff Applied AI Inference Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f6b6957db986de8d) San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago $215,000–$260,000 [Edison Scientific](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/edison-scientific) ### [Member of Technical Staff, Cloud Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ec956d3e06abdc40) San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago $175,000–$240,000 [RELEX Solutions](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/relex-solutions) ### [Product Engineer | Manufacturing](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4095405923d15a1c) Atlanta, GA On-site 2mo ago Pay not posted [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) ### [AI/ML Computational Science Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/71cc748f64219271) Chicago, IL 2mo ago $46,700–$162,000 [Meta](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/meta) ### [Business Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/373b94c00da9da13) Austin, TX · Seattle, WA · +2 more 2mo ago $118,000–$176,000 [Agile Defense](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/agile-defense) ### [MSS Developers (Various Locations)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1efe5878851b5957) Colorado Springs, CO · Falls Church, VA · +7 more On-site 2mo ago Pay not posted [RelationalAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/relationalai) ### [Solution Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5b1e41aad94fe773) US Remote 2mo ago $170,000–$200,000 [Deloitte US](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/deloitte-us) ### [Agentic AI Engineer — Healthcare AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/390f8a8c618f5a62) Multiple US offices 2mo ago $110,700–$372,900 [Bain](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/bain) ### [Lead, AI Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/97ec36645fe8d603) Atlanta, GA · Austin, TX · +8 more Hybrid 2mo ago $179,500–$203,500 [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) ### [Snowflake Advanced AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/bfaf5e58ec1e0a16) San Francisco, CA · Milwaukee, WI · +39 more 2mo ago $54,400–$205,800 [Meta](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/meta) ### [Solutions Architect, Business Agents](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/67acea4b3b24feb5) Seattle, WA · New York, NY · +1 more 2mo ago $130,000–$185,000 [AMD](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amd) ### [Cloud & Customer Solutions Engineer - DC GPU](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c4eb1a1b01f2b5e3) Bellevue, WA 2mo ago Pay not posted [TikTok](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/tiktok) ### [Senior Solution Engineer - Global E-commerce, Seller Business](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1493b7773dc6cf77) San Jose, CA 2mo ago Pay not posted [Carnegie Robotics](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/carnegie-robotics) ### [Software Engineer - Military](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a1f75c19c6a7ddd1) Pittsburgh, PA 2mo ago Pay not posted [Axon Enterprise](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/axon-enterprise) ### [Mission Engineer II - Memphis](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c117dd7c43157fd4) Memphis, TN On-site 2mo ago Pay not posted [Virtualitics](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/virtualitics) ### [Data Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f03b353cd3990779) Washington, DC Hybrid 2mo ago Pay not posted [Livefront](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/livefront) ### [Agentic Engineer [Zeal] ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/be5014f81d3eeaee) US Remote 2mo ago $130,000–$165,000 [Wyetech](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/wyetech) ### [Software Engineer 3](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/cf5d85e8aef36a37) Laurel, MD On-site 2mo ago Pay not posted [Sierra](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sierra) ### [Software Engineer, Agent (New Grad 2027)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6e3dc1e20cb972d7) San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago $150,000–$180,000 [Redhorse](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/redhorse) ### [Senior Software Engineer - Mission Systems Integration](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/21a20bbb36dc98d1) US Remote 2mo ago Pay not posted [M7 Health](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/m7-health) ### [Software Engineer, Integrations ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a6814fe7367249b4) New York, NY Remote 2mo ago Pay not posted [Wyetech](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/wyetech) ### [Software Engineer 3](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7b36a38fa51b4bc6) Laurel, MD On-site 2mo ago Pay not posted [AZX](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/azx) ### [Senior ML Engineer (Client Solutions)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6e5b32530967f267) US Remote 2mo ago $140,000–$230,000 [SF Tensor](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sf-tensor) ### [Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training & Applied Research](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/790e35ccae399fab) San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago $275,000–$315,000 [Virtualitics](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/virtualitics) ### [Full Stack Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a805752154580f12) US Remote 2mo ago Pay not posted [Variance](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/variance) ### [Software Engineer, Agent](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5a38ffba49062e2d) San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago Pay not posted [Helios](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/helios) ### [Applied Intelligence Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5981309e6f071152) New York, NY On-site 2mo ago $165,000–$225,000 [Seekr](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/seekr) ### [AI Engineer, Public Sector](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3974fa16dd83f70a) Reston, VA Hybrid 2mo ago $185,000–$225,000 [Paradigm](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/paradigm) ### [Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d3cfd9fa982cc067) San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago $180,000–$280,000 [Amplitude](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amplitude) ### [Senior Software Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/791d853fa16b65d1) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 2mo ago $183,000–$276,000 [Wyetech](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/wyetech) ### [Software Engineer 3](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/aa6a1e96b543d7bf) Ft. Meade, MD On-site 2mo ago Pay not posted [Booz Allen](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/booz-allen) ### [Agentic Systems Full-Stack Software Engineer, Senior](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6ca87a7f8074a321) Fayetteville, NC 2mo ago $86,800–$198,000 [Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) ### [Mission Software Engineer, Senior](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/af0e86556d5bb67d) Reston, VA 2mo ago $220,000–$292,000 [Narmi](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/narmi) ### [Software Engineer - Professional Services](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6da7ec3092ab2c51) New York, NY Hybrid 2mo ago $91,000–$110,000 [Wyetech](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/wyetech) ### [Software Engineer 2](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/79d26350ab831b70) Ft. Meade, MD On-site 2mo ago Pay not posted [Dark Wolf Solutions](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/dark-wolf-solutions) ### [AI Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b68e811302382d5d) Chantilly, VA · Herndon, VA On-site 2mo ago $120,000–$160,000 [Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) ### [Mission Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/80e9a91a8ee506ca) Reston, VA 2mo ago $191,000–$254,000 [Narmi](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/narmi) ### [Senior Software Engineer - Professional Services](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e21e2a1ccb895111) New York, NY Hybrid 2mo ago $167,000–$196,000 [Wyetech](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/wyetech) ### [Software Engineer 3](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/116a5f509c1e900d) Ft. Meade, MD On-site 2mo ago Pay not posted 928 of these 1,271 jobs build what the customer runs. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%3Fmanagement%3Dic%26recipient%3Dexternal%26page%3D19&placement=assist) [Get new postings like these by email](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%3Fmanagement%3Dic%26recipient%3Dexternal%26page%3D19&placement=alert) Alerts for “FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors serving external customers” go out once you have an account. [Compare pay across US FDE roles →](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary) ## Frequently asked questions ### What do FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors serving external customers pay? 859 of 1,271 postings state a pay range. The median is $181,000, and half of them sit between $154,000 and $215,000, from 441 companies. ### How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors serving external customers require? Of 1,271 postings, 612 state a minimum number of years, from 400 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 368 of them. The rest ask for under 3 years (124), 6 to 9 years (103) or 10 or more years (17). ### Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors serving external customers? These 1,271 postings come from 692 companies. The employers with the most postings are [Palantir](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/palantir) (52), [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) (24), [Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) (20), [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) (19) and [Booz Allen](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/booz-allen) (17). ### Are FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors serving external customers remote? 259 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 298 are hybrid and 434 are on-site. The remaining 280 say nothing about arrangement. 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