> 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 jobs that lead deployment teams serving external customers Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?recipient=external&role=leadership&page=3 100 forward deployed engineer jobs that lead deployment teams serving external customers, from 76 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $225,000 to $297,000. **100** postings · **76** companies · 78 state pay: median **$260,000**, half $225,000–$297,000 Postings read on November 6, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026 [Fieldguide](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/fieldguide) ### [Head of Deployed Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f2bf39c185070fc9) San Francisco, CA Remote 3w ago $240,000–$390,000 [Applied Intuition](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/applied-intuition) ### [Software Engineering Manager (Defense/PhysicalAI)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/54e611b0f8201f20) Arlington, VA On-site 2mo ago $250,000–$300,000 [Turing](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/turing) ### [AI Engagement Lead](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/51d33e8ea1efb5d6) New York, NY Hybrid 2mo ago $225,000–$255,000 [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) ### [Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Enterprise)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9b612508e6525cc3) New York, NY Hybrid 4mo ago $251,000–$335,000 [Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) ### [Lead Mission Software Engineer, EW](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/29ffba50995e18dc) Costa Mesa, CA 4mo ago $220,000–$292,000 [Distyl AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/distyl-ai) ### [AI Engineer, Enterprise Lead](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a777a2e143cc194d) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 4mo ago $200,000–$250,000 [Qualified Health](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/qualified-health) ### [Director, Data Modernization](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e6420374ec05b274) US Remote 4mo ago $190,000–$230,000 [Serval](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/serval) ### [Deployment Leadership](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2cf4f2be614e9158) San Francisco, CA On-site 5mo ago $250,000–$400,000 [webAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/webai) ### [Director of Applied AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/80efef3cae855049) Austin, TX Hybrid 5mo ago Pay not posted [Indicium AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/indicium-ai) ### [Vice President of Agentic AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e428b809047fab6d) New York, NY 6mo ago $220,000–$350,000 [Sierra](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sierra) ### [Engineering Manager, Agent](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7aa24228c9c7e778) New York, NY On-site 6mo ago $280,000–$410,000 [Rain](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/rain) ### [Customer Engineering Lead](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/47277f5e42096c1b) New York, NY Hybrid 7mo ago $200,000–$280,000 [Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai) ### [Frontier Agent Engineering Manager, Enterprise](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/443e90f636abe8b6) San Francisco, CA 9mo ago $265,000–$331,000 [Xtillion](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/xtillion) ### [Engineering Manager](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c2b049ff7066d9c4) San Juan, PR 9mo ago Pay not posted [Turing](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/turing) ### [Staff Research Engineer, Enterprise Knowledge](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/06f45dde0a490569) US · city not listed 12mo ago $250,000–$400,000 · OTE [Uncountable](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/uncountable) ### [Engineering Manager, Implementations](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ed3c833f051d9258) New York, NY 17mo ago $130,000–$150,000 [Vannevar Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/vannevar-labs) ### [Enterprise Technical Lead (Clearance Required)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f690faf1f1a405cd) Washington, DC · San Diego, CA · +1 more Remote 19mo ago $150,000–$215,000 [AMD](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amd) ### [Director, Cluster Forward Deployment Engineering Data Center GPU](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/dcbb2b5305ef3d6b) Santa Clara, CA 2w ago Pay not posted [ElevenLabs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/elevenlabs) ### [Deployment Strategist Lead - USA](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8d0349a5c302e2b9) New York, NY Remote 6w ago Pay not posted [PVM](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pvm) ### [Echo/ Deployment Strategist](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2213e7800d0baa47) Huntsville, AL On-site 3mo ago Pay not posted All 100 lead deployment teams. [Compare pay across US FDE roles →](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary) ## Frequently asked questions ### What do FDE jobs that lead deployment teams serving external customers pay? 78 of 100 postings state a pay range. The median is $260,000, and half of them sit between $225,000 and $297,000, from 57 companies. ### How much experience do FDE jobs that lead deployment teams serving external customers require? Of 100 postings, 62 state a minimum number of years, from 48 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 28 of them. The rest ask for 10 or more years (24) or 3 to 5 years (10). ### Which companies are hiring for FDE jobs that lead deployment teams serving external customers? These 100 postings come from 76 companies. The employers with the most postings are [Deloitte US](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/deloitte-us) (8), [PwC (US)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pwc-us) (4), [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) (3), [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) (3) and [Cursor (Anysphere)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/cursor-anysphere) (2). ### Are FDE jobs that lead deployment teams serving external customers remote? 19 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 23 are hybrid and 21 are on-site. The remaining 37 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 46 of the 100 postings. Counted over the 100 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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