> 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 technical leads in SF Bay Area Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?management=lead®ion=sf-bay-area&page=4 421 forward deployed engineer and deployment jobs for technical leads in the SF Bay Area, from 237 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $193,000 to $248,000. **421** postings · **237** companies · 346 state pay: median **$218,000**, half $193,000–$248,000 Postings read on November 6, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026 [Latent Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/latent-labs) ### [Forward Deployed AI Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4843311e7516437c) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 7mo ago Pay not posted [Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai) ### [Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/aa082644713e92d5) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 more 5mo ago $180,000–$225,000 [Databricks](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/databricks) ### [Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Digital Native Business ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/95420126850f392b) San Francisco, CA 7mo ago $182,000–$250,208 [Snorkel AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/snorkel-ai) ### [Forward Deployed Researcher - Data as a Service ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e5f41ce33de88dfc) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · US remote Remote 8mo ago $160,000–$400,000 · OTE [depthfirst](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/depthfirst) ### [Forward-Deployed Security Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5e88fe1e2afe6239) San Francisco, CA On-site 8mo ago Pay not posted [Factory](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/factory) ### [Member of Deployed Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4d0cc60298a71dcf) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 more On-site 9mo ago Pay not posted [Databricks](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/databricks) ### [Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Communications, Media, Entertainment & Games](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/20076ffede7d4a63) Mountain View, CA 7mo ago $182,000–$250,208 [Glean](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/glean) ### [Founding Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1c77cf92a5eebfe8) Mountain View, CA Hybrid 9mo ago $160,000–$270,000 [Invisible Technologies](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/invisible-technologies) ### [Principal Backend Engineer (Forward Deployed)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/14b783c38e2fc93f) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 12mo ago $250,000–$300,000 [Arini](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/arini) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/14092de3c283aff7) San Francisco, CA On-site 12mo ago $120,000–$300,000 [Databricks](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/databricks) ### [Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Communications, Media, Entertainment & Games](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/54855e166e9842d1) San Francisco, CA 7mo ago $182,000–$250,208 [Profound](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/profound) ### [Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/fc8070eaf3deefc7) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site 12mo ago $140,000–$260,000 [Invisible Technologies](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/invisible-technologies) ### [Staff Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/19bb1237798f4e23) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 12mo ago $210,000–$300,000 [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) ### [Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Gov](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b932491c6942bae3) San Francisco, CA · Washington, DC · +1 more Hybrid 14mo ago $145,800–$280,000 [Postman](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/postman) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Backend)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8aa4bc400c315f92) San Francisco, CA On-site 15mo ago $220,000–$240,000 [Notion](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/notion) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, GTM, AMER](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e0e117d9b65f24c6) San Francisco, CA On-site 15mo ago $175,000–$240,000 · OTE [Pulse](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pulse) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/90635a8118ec8c9c) San Francisco, CA On-site 15mo ago $140,000–$200,000 [Invisible Technologies](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/invisible-technologies) ### [Senior Data Scientist (Forward Deployed)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/05a0e99369661e8f) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 15mo ago $193,000–$250,000 [Vooma](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/vooma) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/44c72be1f6bb6276) San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +2 more On-site 17mo ago $100,000–$200,000 [AGI, Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/agi-inc) ### [AI Product FDE](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/73b40d642e7dd7ef) San Francisco, CA On-site 20mo ago Pay not posted [Baseten](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/baseten) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/973f0d388b7bfc6f) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 31mo ago $165,000–$330,000 [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer Manager](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/139f128284087904) Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +38 more 2mo ago $80,400–$316,300 [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) ### [Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer -Assoc Director](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/eed6abce4ec9270a) Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +39 more 2mo ago $138,800–$434,000 [Embedding VC](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/embedding-vc) ### [Solution Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5d7a4075a50418c3) Mountain View, CA Hybrid New · Today Pay not posted [Meta](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/meta) ### [Partner Engineer, Payments & Financial Technologies](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6688709161c17bb6) Menlo Park, CA · New York, NY · +1 more New · Today $149,000–$210,000 [Celonis](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/celonis) ### [Lead Deployment Architect - AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/927db00cfcddf0a0) Redwood City, CA Hybrid New · 2d ago $195,000–$215,000 [Selector](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/selector) ### [Senior Software/Solutions Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/99e7475abc057601) Santa Clara, CA New · 2d ago $150,000–$185,000 [PwC (US)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pwc-us) ### [Senior Engineer, Google Cloud](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/185ac0e4c847ab6b) San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +62 more New · 3d ago $77,000–$202,000 [Robots & Pencils](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/robots-pencils) ### [Staff Engineer / AI Builder - Mountain View](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c9bdcf6343a2389c) Mountain View, CA New · 3d ago $165,604–$228,491 [Cisco](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/cisco) ### [Staff Solutions Engineer - FDSE Public Sector - Splunk (Remote)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5f665de6bff21392) San Jose, CA · Reston, VA · +6 more Remote New · 6d ago $246,800–$394,300 [NVIDIA](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nvidia) ### [ML Ops DSX Senior Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/76728b0c4db2d623) Santa Clara, CA · Seattle, WA · US remote Remote 8d ago $184,000–$356,500 [ServiceNow](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/servicenow) ### [Senior AI Agent Engineer | Moveworks](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9f0ec069a896669f) San Francisco, CA Remote 9d ago $143,200–$243,400 [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) ### [Enterprise AI Transformation Manager](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2d3876bc2df23d99) Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +40 more 10d ago $80,400–$266,300 [Blue Matter](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/blue-matter) ### [AI Engineer / Senior AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3b3fb597face2eac) South San Francisco, CA 13d ago $120,000–$170,000 [Albert Invent](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/albert-invent) ### [Lead Integrations Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/22537a769cfcd0a6) Oakland, CA · US remote Remote 13d ago Pay not posted [Sanas](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sanas) ### [Member of Technical Staff, LLM Post-Training, Applied](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/24ef7254ad020c1f) Palo Alto, CA On-site 13d ago Pay not posted [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) ### [Technical Commerce & AI Consultant | Agentic Commerce](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0fa960d82e23fab2) Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +40 more 10d ago Pay not posted [Luminary](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/luminary) ### [Senior/Principal Lead Delivery Engineer — Aerospace](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/492222403f260da6) San Mateo, CA On-site 13d ago Pay not posted [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) ### [Staff Applied AI Agent Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/16a62232639586e6) Sunnyvale, CA · Kirkland, WA 2w ago $207,000–$300,000 [Apple](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/apple) ### [Senior Platform Engineer, Find My](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/bcc832bcdee76cf6) Cupertino, CA 2w ago $150,400–$277,600 244 of 421 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 technical leads in SF Bay Area pay? 346 of 421 postings state a pay range. The median is $218,000, and half of them sit between $193,000 and $248,000, from 180 companies. ### How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads in SF Bay Area require? Of 421 postings, 281 state a minimum number of years, from 162 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 143 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (95), 10 or more years (24) or under 3 years (19). ### Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads in SF Bay Area? These 421 postings come from 237 companies. The employers with the most postings are [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) (19), [NVIDIA](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nvidia) (17), [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) (16), [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) (14) and [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) (13). ### Are FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads in SF Bay Area remote? 44 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 123 are hybrid and 113 are on-site. The remaining 141 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 176 of the 421 postings. Counted over the 421 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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