> 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 involving pre-sales Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?management=lead&stage=presales&page=5 402 forward deployed engineer and deployment jobs for technical leads involving pre-sales, from 231 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $172,000 to $239,000. **402** postings · **231** companies · 307 state pay: median **$205,000**, half $172,000–$239,000 Postings read on November 6, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026 [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) ### [Sr. Delivery Consultant - AI/ML, WWPS ProServe](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/571a7642e9219370) Jersey City, NJ · Austin, TX · +6 more 7w ago $153,600–$239,000 [EY](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ey) ### [Cyber - AI Engineer - Manager - Consulting](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5352527da1726f71) New York, NY Remote 7w ago $144,900–$302,100 [C3.ai](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/c3-ai) ### [Federal Solution Leader](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/32ce49535b2c0050) Tysons, VA 7w ago $130,000–$203,000 [Hitachi Energy](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/hitachi-energy) ### [Federal Data Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f9798b9bebc97700) Washington, DC On-site 1mo ago $160,000–$205,000 [AHEAD](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ahead) ### [Principal Technical Consultant - AI/ Azure Cloud Platform Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/278fbceacb765436) US Remote 2mo ago Pay not posted [LangChain](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/langchain) ### [Deployed Engineer (Federal)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/40118733a4b00450) Washington, DC Remote 2mo ago $185,000–$300,000 · OTE [Capco](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/capco) ### [Principal Consultant – Semantic Data & AI Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/67092a02a2043ad9) New York, NY Hybrid 2mo ago $146,000–$183,000 [Axon Enterprise](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/axon-enterprise) ### [Mission Engineer - Colorado Springs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1ab174c19e8b1e22) Colorado Springs, CO On-site 2mo ago $127,500–$204,000 [phData](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/phdata) ### [ Principal Machine Learning Solutions Architect](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ab034e10862d5318) US Remote 3mo ago Pay not posted [Baseten](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/baseten) ### [AI Inference Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0d9dd26df1b19851) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 3mo ago $165,000–$330,000 [Sierra](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sierra) ### [Healthcare Integrations Architect](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f70a270105c7febe) San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago $150,000–$290,000 [Decagon](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/decagon) ### [Engineering Lead, Strategic Deployments](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3ff1ce35a22b105f) New York, NY On-site 3mo ago $200,000–$400,000 [Redapt, Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/redapt-inc) ### [Senior AI Implementation Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b32f7185f2c283e4) Las Vegas, NV 3mo ago Pay not posted [Ultralytics](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ultralytics) ### [Solutions Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/85a1bd886c280432) New York, NY On-site 3mo ago Pay not posted [Celonis](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/celonis) ### [Lead Deployment Architect - AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/bf236dfac408a8bc) New York, NY Hybrid 3mo ago $177,000–$190,000 [Decagon](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/decagon) ### [Engineering Lead, Strategic Deployments](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/55e8a726e8f37fe4) San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago $200,000–$400,000 [NVIDIA](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nvidia) ### [Senior Solutions Architect, Agentic AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/bbc4e0e7b7f53b69) Santa Clara, CA · US remote Remote 3mo ago $184,000–$287,500 [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) ### [Applied AI Engineer, Plugins](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b8424d0e52850251) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 3mo ago $197,000–$280,000 [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) ### [Google Agentic AI Delivery Specialist](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/05234902c7615380) Albany, NY · Milwaukee, WI · +39 more 3mo ago $54,400–$196,000 [Lirvana Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/lirvana-labs) ### [Solutions Architect](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4186dd5e45b5ba65) Menlo Park, CA On-site 4mo ago Pay not posted [Egen](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/egen) ### [Principal AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3261fbaa1764b97e) US Remote 4mo ago Pay not posted [CapTech Consulting](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/captech-consulting) ### [Lead Machine Learning / Data Science Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e2ffa46072f703d0) Richmond, VA Hybrid 4mo ago $90,000–$200,000 [West Monroe](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/west-monroe) ### [Senior Applied AI Engineer/Architect](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8a4b60dcc900fac7) Boston, MA · Chicago, IL · +7 more 4mo ago $225,000–$304,200 [CoreWeave](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/coreweave) ### [Staff Specialist Field Engineer, Robotics](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/bface67af6b399f9) San Francisco, CA · Sunnyvale, CA 4mo ago $177,000–$237,000 [InstaLILY](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/instalily) ### [Software Engineer, Full Stack](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/69133966645ebb04) New York, NY · San Francisco, CA 4mo ago $150,000–$190,000 [CapTech Consulting](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/captech-consulting) ### [Lead Machine Learning / Data Science Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7abde90d3b7e3b97) Reston, VA Hybrid 4mo ago $90,000–$200,000 [forgd](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/forgd) ### [Applied AI Architect : North America](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b7ed89a03efc9c3b) Denver, CO · US remote Remote 4mo ago Pay not posted [Fireworks AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/fireworks-ai) ### [AI Field Engineer - Strategic Partnerships](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/586637615ffab02a) San Mateo, CA Hybrid 4mo ago $200,000–$260,000 [Bland AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/bland-ai) ### [Agent Solutions Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2835d19d46c9e04d) San Francisco, CA On-site 5mo ago $120,000–$200,000 [CapTech Consulting](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/captech-consulting) ### [Machine Learning / Data Science Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/359e6a76c207a2a9) Richmond, VA Hybrid 4mo ago $90,000–$200,000 [SentinelOne](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sentinelone) ### [Staff Forward Deploy Engineer (Fullstack - Java/React)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8d65cfa2211fe3a1) US Remote 5mo ago $156,000–$215,000 [BCG](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/bcg) ### [BCG Platinion | Lead AI Tech Architect - AI Platforms](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0d4252868cd1a506) Atlanta, GA · Austin, TX · +16 more 5mo ago $190,000 [Booz Allen](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/booz-allen) ### [Agentic AI and Data Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/64d5cd11d7906ecf) Honolulu, HI 6mo ago $99,000–$225,000 [CapTech Consulting](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/captech-consulting) ### [Machine Learning / Data Science Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/08f25e2fbbedc82c) Reston, VA Hybrid 4mo ago $90,000–$200,000 [Via](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/via) ### [Senior Engineer, AI Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3fa6ce9c797cb412) New York, NY 6mo ago $180,000–$250,000 [Deepgram](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/deepgram) ### [Senior Solutions Engineer, Federal](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ab90418d9dd210ca) Washington, DC Remote 7mo ago $180,000–$245,000 [Nominal](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nominal) ### [Software Engineer, Mission Dev - U.S. Government](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/25571084cdc5fffa) New York, NY · Washington, DC 8mo ago $150,000–$215,000 [CapTech Consulting](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/captech-consulting) ### [Lead Machine Learning / Data Science Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/329e826238fcede0) Denver, CO Hybrid 6mo ago $90,000–$200,000 [Headstart AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/headstart-ai) ### [Staff Engineer, Applied AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/76a2f242cb8848a1) New York, NY Hybrid 9mo ago $265,000–$265,000 [Reply](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/reply) ### [Senior AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/228263ef4ba73d0f) Seattle, WA Hybrid 10mo ago $140,000–$180,000 211 of 402 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 involving pre-sales pay? 307 of 402 postings state a pay range. The median is $205,000, and half of them sit between $172,000 and $239,000, from 162 companies. ### How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads involving pre-sales require? Of 402 postings, 271 state a minimum number of years, from 162 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 141 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (85), 10 or more years (25) or under 3 years (20). ### Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads involving pre-sales? These 402 postings come from 231 companies. The employers with the most postings are [Deloitte US](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/deloitte-us) (39), [Databricks](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/databricks) (19), [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) (11), [CapTech Consulting](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/captech-consulting) (10) and [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) (7). ### Are FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads involving pre-sales remote? 96 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 103 are hybrid and 88 are on-site. The remaining 115 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 218 of the 402 postings. Counted over the 402 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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