> 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 build what the customer runs in SF Bay Area Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?region=sf-bay-area&role=builds-for-customers&page=8 569 forward deployed engineer jobs that build what the customer runs in the SF Bay Area, from 329 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $184,000 to $245,000. **569** postings · **329** companies · 433 state pay: median **$215,000**, half $184,000–$245,000 Postings read on November 6, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026 [Tavily](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/tavily) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/370b27a2ed0eb887) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site 8mo ago Pay not posted [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 [Vori](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/vori) ### [Forward Deployed Data Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/10a63de25c991395) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 9mo ago Pay not posted [Luminai](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/luminai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7be0008a7ad52b62) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 9mo ago $150,000–$220,000 [Scaled Cognition](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scaled-cognition) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/de081d160e018d3a) Mountain View, CA On-site 9mo ago Pay not posted [Poetic](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/poetic) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/27199df9c93f0a8e) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site 9mo ago $160,000–$275,000 [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 [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 [XDOF](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/xdof) ### [Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7a7f0ff8964f29ca) San Mateo, CA Hybrid 10mo ago $180,000–$290,000 [Emergence Capital](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/emergence-capital) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/07e735e4997db841) San Francisco, CA 10mo ago Pay not posted [Roe AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/roe-ai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b26d84c0bb8db523) San Mateo, CA Hybrid 10mo ago $100,000–$120,000 [Carnot AI, Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/carnot-ai-inc) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f142b9cdcc272a11) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 10mo ago $120,000–$160,000 [Krew](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/krew) ### [Member of Technical Staff (Forward Deployed)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/365c1b5c9703a343) San Francisco, CA On-site 11mo ago $150,000–$250,000 [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) ### [Forward Deployed Software Engineer - SF](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1b7ff350800722d8) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 11mo ago $185,000–$325,000 [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 [Candid Health](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/candid-health) ### [Forward Deployed Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2ac5993c488c9fa6) San Francisco, CA On-site 12mo ago $140,000–$220,000 [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 [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 [Sphinx](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sphinx) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ecc19ab20b8cf405) San Francisco, CA On-site 12mo ago $120,000–$200,000 [Simular](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/simular) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d5dc149d18f4254e) Palo Alto, CA On-site 12mo ago Pay not posted [Lila Sciences](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/lila-sciences) ### [Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Physical Sciences (Level Flexible)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1f4ccd670bfaf5d4) San Francisco, CA · Cambridge, MA 13mo ago $192,000–$256,000 [Nuvo](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nuvo) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a515989aba741206) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY 13mo ago $135,000–$300,000 [Modal](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/modal) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer - Systems](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c0acbfff78099976) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site 13mo ago $180,000–$240,000 [Kastle](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/kastle) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0e233375caf2d43f) San Francisco, CA On-site 14mo ago $170,000–$250,000 [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 [Strala](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/strala) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6de69ca38adbde5d) San Francisco, CA On-site 15mo ago Pay not posted [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 [Eliza](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/eliza) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/62fc257345bfe00f) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY 16mo ago Pay not posted [Giga](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/giga) ### [Senior / Staff Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6294269c419cf48f) San Francisco, CA On-site 16mo ago $180,000–$400,000 [Exa (formerly Metaphor)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/exa-formerly-metaphor) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, SF](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/754262bce98e3326) San Francisco, CA On-site 16mo ago $160,000–$300,000 [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 [Bretton AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/bretton-ai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c0beadc15df3ef3d) San Francisco, CA 21mo 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 [Luminary](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/luminary) ### [Senior / Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Applications (CFD)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8bf7688872e10c90) San Mateo, CA Remote 13d ago Pay not posted [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) ### [Forward Deployed Engineering Intern, BS/MS, Summer 2027](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/acb6772e64dd876a) Sunnyvale, CA · New York, NY · +1 more 3w ago $98,000–$131,000 All 569 build what the customer runs. [Compare pay across US FDE roles →](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary) ## Frequently asked questions ### What do FDE jobs that build what the customer runs in SF Bay Area pay? 433 of 569 postings state a pay range. The median is $215,000, and half of them sit between $184,000 and $245,000, from 234 companies. ### How much experience do FDE jobs that build what the customer runs in SF Bay Area require? Of 569 postings, 300 state a minimum number of years, from 180 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 173 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (62), under 3 years (48) or 10 or more years (17). ### Which companies are hiring for FDE jobs that build what the customer runs in SF Bay Area? These 569 postings come from 329 companies. The employers with the most postings are [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) (21), [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) (18), [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) (16), [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) (15) and [Sierra](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sierra) (12). ### Are FDE jobs that build what the customer runs in SF Bay Area remote? 48 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 155 are hybrid and 215 are on-site. The remaining 151 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 240 of the 569 postings. Counted over the 569 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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