Snorkel AIBuilds what the customer runs
Senior/Staff FDE - CUA
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$180,000–$320,000
Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for forward deployed engineering experience
24 postings · 21 companies · 21 state pay: median $250,000, half $215,000–$270,000
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$310,000–$350,000
$240,000–$290,000
Snorkel AIBuilds what the customer runs
Senior/Staff FDE - Synthetic Data Generation
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$180,000–$320,000
Pay not posted
$203,745–$275,655
$300,000–$360,000
$127,500–$249,350
$186,500–$311,000
Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering
Mclean, VA · Mountain View, CA · +2 moreMclean, VA +3On-site
$154,000–$275,000
Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$282,000–$355,000
$270,800–$310,000
Director of Forward Deployed Engineering
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
$240,000–$300,000
$200,000–$250,000
AppleBuilds for teams inside the company
Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Evaluation Platform
Seattle, WA
Pay not posted
$320,000–$405,000
Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$200,000–$320,000
$252,000–$280,000
$140,000–$170,000
$180,000–$235,000
Pay not posted
ImpiricusProves it works before the sale
Product Solutions Architect
New York, NY · Atlanta, GANew York, NY +1Remote
$170,000–$210,000
$200,000–$280,000
AlationProves it works before the sale
Staff Deployment Strategist, Technical Advisory & Solutioning
USRemote
$136,312–$184,021
14 of 24 lead deployment teams.
Frequently asked questions
What do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for forward deployed engineering experience pay?
21 of 24 postings state a pay range. The median is $250,000, and half of them sit between $215,000 and $270,000, from 18 companies.
How much experience do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for forward deployed engineering experience require?
Of 24 postings, 14 state a minimum number of years, from 12 companies. The most common requirement is 10 or more years, in 7 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (4) or 3 to 5 years (3).
Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for forward deployed engineering experience?
These 24 postings come from 21 companies. The employers with the most postings are Snorkel AI (3), Taktile (2), Afresh (1), Alation (1) and Anthropic (1).
Are staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for forward deployed engineering experience remote?
5 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 15 are hybrid and 1 are on-site. The remaining 3 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 8 of the 24 postings.
Counted over the 24 postings in this search. Postings read on September 21, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
Employer postings · Responsibility levels reflect our reading of the work, not just the employer’s title. The background is what the posting asks for in the employer’s own words. Postings that state no experience requirement, or ask for experience outside the five we list, are left out. · How we read postings