> 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 in SF Bay Area Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?management=ic®ion=sf-bay-area&page=2 511 forward deployed engineer and deployment jobs for individual contributors in the SF Bay Area, from 331 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $165,000 to $230,000. **511** postings · **331** companies · 374 state pay: median **$200,000**, half $165,000–$230,000 Postings read on November 6, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026 [Fal](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/fal) ### [Principal/Senior Forward Deployed Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/571d390c3c52ec95) San Francisco, CA 3w ago $180,000–$250,000 [ResolveAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/resolveai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9fbf9861d61dda44) San Francisco, CA On-site 3w ago Pay not posted [Learning Commons](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/learning-commons) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/612fe92b05bea7dd) Redwood City, CA Hybrid 3w ago $190,000–$238,000 [Capgemini](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/capgemini) ### [Capgemini Invent, Consultant, Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/83b64f877d666913) San Francisco, CA · Atlanta, GA · +4 more 4w ago $110,000–$137,500 [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Kaggle, DeepMind (Fixed-Term Contract)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6d6f76669f791f27) Mountain View, CA · New York, NY 4w ago $174,000–$232,000 [Seekr](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/seekr) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/46808066546c242c) Menlo Park, CA · Austin, TX · +1 more Hybrid 4w ago $170,000–$225,000 [FriendliAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/friendliai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer - AI Inference](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2b8a281a5eedea88) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 4w ago Pay not posted [Nominal](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nominal) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/dec8d400dcdba3a8) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +3 more 4w ago Pay not posted [Roadrunner](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/roadrunner) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (New Grad) ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/634c7889807f6455) San Francisco, CA On-site 4w ago Pay not posted [Usul](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/usul) ### [Technical Staff: Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1fd7445530eb2af6) San Francisco, CA On-site 4w ago $160,000–$240,000 [Medeloop](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/medeloop) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/731a29fd03376be6) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY 4w ago Pay not posted [Casca](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/casca) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/927bef3af6c8393d) San Francisco, CA On-site 4w ago $160,000–$265,000 [Matroid](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/matroid) ### [VLM & VFM Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/55bdc7eeef3cb713) Palo Alto, CA On-site 4w ago $150,000–$300,000 [Dynamo AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/dynamo-ai) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8ccde3e4186d1e0f) San Francisco, CA · Washington, DC 4w ago Pay not posted [Inferact](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/inferact) ### [Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/70641fd7886753d9) San Francisco, CA Remote 4w ago $200,000–$400,000 [Maxinsights](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/maxinsights) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/fea1f5b4abebab82) Santa Clara, CA On-site 5w ago Pay not posted [Harness](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/harness) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (Implementation Engineering)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8bbe8200b00b1ea6) San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +1 more Remote 5w ago $170,000–$200,000 [Gumloop](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/gumloop) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Agentic Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a0396b23bd52e518) San Francisco, CA On-site 5w ago $175,000–$265,000 [Sim](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sim) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f40e24220cfe7740) San Francisco, CA On-site 6w ago $190,000–$250,000 [HealthLeap](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/healthleap) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/dd1c68c037e1d288) San Francisco, CA On-site 6w ago $200,000–$275,000 [Conversion](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/conversion) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/fa7adc0dbf2cb4a2) San Francisco, CA On-site 6w ago $175,000–$250,000 [Laurel](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/laurel) ### [Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/303b3bfbfb7335e6) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 6w ago $221,000–$275,000 [Groq](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/groq) ### [Sr./Staff Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/16d9ba28146fcaf4) San Francisco, CA · Dallas, TX · +1 more Remote 6w ago $270,400–$401,600 [BCG](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/bcg) ### [Forward Deployed AI Engineer, United States - BCG X](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/cf94a12d13c41b68) San Francisco, CA · Boston, MA · +10 more On-site 6w ago $110,000–$190,000 [Varick-Agents](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/varick-agents) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c0e43d77dbd84030) San Francisco, CA On-site 6w ago $175,000–$250,000 [Handshake (AI training)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/handshake-ai-training) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c364266bec560fc4) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site 7w ago $220,000–$300,000 [Databricks](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/databricks) ### [Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Digital Native Business ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/cdb35a0964ff28e9) San Francisco, CA 7w ago $182,000–$250,208 [Cogent Security, Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/cogent-security-inc) ### [Forward Deployed Agent Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8b2ffedbcbde8090) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 7w ago $100,000–$300,000 [Intercom](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/intercom) ### [Forward Deployed Data Scientist](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ff6db77760087781) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 7w ago $206,600–$229,000 [Revel](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/revel) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3cdc82ca00e6cbe2) San Francisco, CA · Los Angeles, CA On-site 7w ago Pay not posted [Applied Intuition](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/applied-intuition) ### [Forward Deployed Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/052b3216757ba0ba) Sunnyvale, CA On-site 1mo ago $130,000–$200,000 [Petra Security](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/petra-security) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ac67d87a1e5c0c2c) San Francisco, CA On-site 1mo ago Pay not posted [Sainapse](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sainapse) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5fbbf612e42da5ce) San Francisco, CA On-site 1mo ago $120,000–$140,000 [AiPrise](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/aiprise) ### [Bilingual Forward Deployed Engineer (English/Spanish)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7ea1eef0aa28380f) San Jose, CA On-site 1mo ago $115,000–$130,000 [Gold & Aron](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/gold-aron) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6373532f2ca419a3) Menlo Park, CA Hybrid 1mo ago Pay not posted [Roadrunner](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/roadrunner) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4817cacbc96b78c4) San Francisco, CA On-site 1mo ago Pay not posted [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer III, Generative AI, Google Cloud](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e6ee1ac89337dd30) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +8 more 2mo ago $174,000–$252,000 [AMD](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amd) ### [Sr. Forward Deployed AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/809186efd5a44005) Santa Clara, CA 2mo ago Pay not posted [Sitreps](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sitreps) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6c5d5100c300639f) San Francisco, CA · Washington, DC On-site 2mo ago $167,000–$203,000 [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) ### [Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/603238d92737226e) Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +39 more 2mo ago $54,400–$235,100 322 of 511 build what the customer runs. [Compare pay across US FDE roles →](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary) ## Frequently asked questions ### What do FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors in SF Bay Area pay? 374 of 511 postings state a pay range. The median is $200,000, and half of them sit between $165,000 and $230,000, from 237 companies. ### How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors in SF Bay Area require? Of 511 postings, 243 state a minimum number of years, from 188 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 151 of them. The rest ask for under 3 years (61), 6 to 9 years (25) or 10 or more years (6). ### Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors in SF Bay Area? These 511 postings come from 331 companies. The employers with the most postings are [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) (13), [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) (7), [Salesforce](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/salesforce) (7), [Sierra](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sierra) (7) and [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) (6). ### Are FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors in SF Bay Area remote? 34 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 139 are hybrid and 227 are on-site. The remaining 111 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 171 of the 511 postings. Counted over the 511 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey. 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