> 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=21 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 [Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai) ### [Field Engineer, Public Sector](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a675461a96cb3138) Honolulu, HI · Omaha, NE · +2 more 3mo ago $150,400–$226,550 [Causal Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/causal-labs) ### [Member of Technical Staff — Product Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1543d6fa6ceed9eb) San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago Pay not posted [Striveworks](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/striveworks) ### [Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Active Secret Clearance)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5a5844b6cb2a5b62) Tacoma, WA Hybrid 3mo ago $185,000–$230,000 [Tenex Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/tenex-labs) ### [Applied AI, Engineer & Creator](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/65c558c08c970234) New York, NY On-site 3mo ago $240,000–$320,000 · OTE [Wafer](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/wafer) ### [Member of Technical Staff](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7cacb3e166260f2d) San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago $250,000–$250,000 [Causal Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/causal-labs) ### [Member of Technical Staff — Deployment Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/220ec67c3b04539f) San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago Pay not posted [Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) ### [Senior Software Engineer, Discovery](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6ba3c64ddaf07683) Costa Mesa, CA · Huntsville, AL · +4 more 3mo ago $191,000–$292,000 [SambaNova Systems](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sambanova-systems) ### [Forward Deployment Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e5314bff9caf421c) US Remote 3mo ago $138,000–$170,000 [Rilla](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/rilla) ### [Software Engineer, Integrations](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/96b087c9923ab25a) New York, NY On-site 3mo ago $200,000–$230,000 [Hubs.is](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/hubs-is) ### [AI Solutions Architect ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a1d9ae9190db992c) US · city not listed Hybrid 3mo ago Pay not posted [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) ### [Delivery Consultant- AI/ML, Data & Machine Learning (DML)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d8e966aeda24ed83) Arlington, VA · Herndon, VA 4mo ago $131,300–$177,600 [Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) ### [Senior Software Engineer, Air Defense, Integrations](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/676fb2d31665ac31) Irvine, CA 4mo ago $191,000–$253,000 [Adelphi](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/adelphi) ### [Machine Learning Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/256996cf2f7be6a4) Washington, DC Hybrid 4mo ago Pay not posted [EXL](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/exl) ### [Data Analytics AI Consultant](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8bc4e93302d93bac) US · city not listed 4mo ago Pay not posted [Cake](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/cake) ### [Solutions Engineer, AI/ML](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1997c828c301a92b) US Remote 4mo ago Pay not posted [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) ### [Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/522df6273aa0eeb2) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 4mo ago $251,000–$278,000 [GRVTY](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/grvty) ### [Software Engineer, Senior](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b6405c948282a7c3) Dayton, OH On-site 4mo ago $165,000–$210,000 [S32](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/s32) ### [Solutions Engineer (Portfolio)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7df150a64263cbbf) Palo Alto, CA 4mo ago $130,000–$180,000 [Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) ### [Mission Software Engineer, EW](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3c1ebbc33939cd4e) Costa Mesa, CA 4mo ago $166,000–$220,000 [Radiance Technologies](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/radiance-technologies) ### [Palantir Foundry Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/16665fc1517ee290) Springfield, VA Hybrid 4mo ago Pay not posted [Particle41](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/particle41) ### [AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3ddbc0a39d5b34ab) US Remote 4mo ago From $800,000 [Sierra](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sierra) ### [Software Engineer, Agent (Brazilian Portuguese speaking)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c214f10a964983c7) San Francisco, CA On-site 4mo ago $180,000–$390,000 [Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) ### [Software Engineer, Front End](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d904c0d3089ee144) Reston, VA 4mo ago $167,000–$222,000 [Outmarket AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/outmarket-ai) ### [Full Stack AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/85ffed49ebc64e53) US Remote 4mo ago Pay not posted [Distyl AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/distyl-ai) ### [AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2625d8a6aa23c2b2) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 4mo ago $180,000–$250,000 [Adelphi](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/adelphi) ### [Senior ML Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d0c2774fe20a5c72) Washington, DC Hybrid 4mo ago Pay not posted [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) ### [Google Agentic AI Delivery Senior Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/849934b3c434470f) Albany, NY · Milwaukee, WI · +39 more 4mo ago $80,400–$266,300 [Fireworks AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/fireworks-ai) ### [AI Field Engineer - Enterprise](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/546672abcb710ae7) San Mateo, CA Hybrid 4mo ago $200,000–$260,000 [Intrinsic](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/intrinsic) ### [Customer Success Engineer, Robotics Software and Automation](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5e372b3dfdcb4c14) Mountain View, CA 4mo ago $132,000–$180,400 [Physical Intelligence](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/physical-intelligence) ### [Deployments Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/bc0180c57a5392c1) San Francisco, CA On-site 5mo ago Pay not posted [Rackner](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/rackner) ### [Software/AI developer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5ef57c9c24ffb289) US Remote 5mo ago Pay not posted [Fireworks AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/fireworks-ai) ### [AI Field Engineer - AI Natives](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c5cd7fc499de4582) San Mateo, CA Hybrid 5mo ago $200,000–$260,000 [SpaceX](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/spacex) ### [Mission Integration Engineer, AI (Starshield) - Top Secret Clearance](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1c29fc4f0419b4c0) Hawthorne, CA 5mo ago $100,000–$135,000 [Slash](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/slash) ### [Software Engineer, Growth](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6af1c7119a35d995) San Francisco, CA On-site 5mo ago $200,000–$250,000 [BCG](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/bcg) ### [BCG Platinion | Senior AI Tech Architect - AI Platforms](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a4c47c8ee4f67d78) Atlanta, GA · Austin, TX · +16 more 5mo ago $150,000 [Peregrine](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/peregrine) ### [Deployment Strategist, Federal](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6a46a96e7a6da44b) Washington, DC On-site 5mo ago $140,000–$190,000 [SpaceX](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/spacex) ### [Sr. AI Engineer, Special Programs - Top Secret Clearance](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ed430921c27565a8) Palo Alto, CA 5mo ago $220,000–$350,000 [Decagon](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/decagon) ### [Agent Deployment Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f2e3f4229557ee1e) New York, NY On-site 5mo ago $175,000–$230,000 [Salient](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/salient) ### [Software Engineer, Product](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1f6f4f1ea14eb94f) San Francisco, CA On-site 5mo ago $140,000–$200,000 [UnitX](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/unitx) ### [Product Operations Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2e575c0e0198b540) Milpitas, CA On-site 5mo ago $100,000–$120,000 928 of these 1,271 jobs build what the customer runs. - [See roles 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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. Travel is mentioned in 553 of the 1,271 postings. Counted over the 1,271 postings in this search. 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