AI Engineer - FDE Software Engineering Sr. Manager
Mountain View, CA · New York, NY · +40 moreMountain View, CA +41
$112,900–$302,400
FDE and deployment jobs asking for implementation and data engineering experience in SF Bay Area serving external customers
100 postings · 47 companies · 89 state pay: median $211,000, half $180,000–$236,000
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$182,000–$250,208
$185,000–$300,000
Senior/Staff FDE - Synthetic Data Generation
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$180,000–$320,000
AI Led Forward Deployed Engineer | Design & Digital Products
Mountain View, CA · New York, NY · +26 moreMountain View, CA +27
$54,400–$205,800
$182,000–$250,208
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-SF
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$185,000–$300,000
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) — Agentforce Orchestration
San Francisco, CA · Atlanta, GA · +9 moreSan Francisco, CA +10
$88,970–$316,750
Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer
Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +39 moreMountain View, CA +40
$54,400–$235,100
$182,000–$250,208
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-NYC
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$185,000–$300,000
Pay not posted
Palantir Forward Deployed Senior Engineer
Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +39 moreMountain View, CA +40
$80,400–$316,300
$182,000–$250,208
Senior Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$180,000–$264,000
$125,000–$175,000
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Public Sector, Nonprofit & Education
San Francisco, CA · Mclean, VA · +8 moreSan Francisco, CA +9Remote
$88,970–$316,750
$182,000–$250,208
Staff Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$210,000–$300,000
Forward Deployed Engineer, Command by Asana
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$248,000–$282,000
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) (Mid/Senior Level)
San Francisco, CA · Seattle, WA · +8 moreSan Francisco, CA +9Remote
$88,970–$198,170
$182,000–$250,208
$230,000–$300,000
Forward Deployed Engineer, Command by Asana
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$248,000–$282,000
Forward Deployed Engineer, Gov
San Francisco, CA · Washington, DC · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
$145,800–$280,000
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
Forward Deployed Engineer Manager
Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +38 moreMountain View, CA +39
$80,400–$316,300
Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer -Assoc Director
Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +39 moreMountain View, CA +40
$138,800–$434,000
AI - Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer - FDE Senior Manager
Mountain View, CA · Atlanta, GA · +41 moreMountain View, CA +42
$112,900–$366,300
Cybersecurity AI Forward Deployed Engineer - FDE - Manager
Mountain View, CA · Atlanta, GA · +41 moreMountain View, CA +42
$80,400–$305,000
Sr. Delivery Consultant - AI/ML, WWPS ProServe
San Francisco, CA · Jersey City, NJ · +6 moreSan Francisco, CA +7
$153,600–$239,000
$174,000–$252,000
$190,900–$334,100
Snowflake Advanced AI Engineer,
San Francisco, CA · Milwaukee, WI · +39 moreSan Francisco, CA +40
$54,400–$205,800
$184,000–$287,500
$207,000–$300,000
Pay not posted
$180,000–$210,000
55 of 100 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs asking for implementation and data engineering experience in SF Bay Area serving external customers pay?
89 of 100 postings state a pay range. The median is $211,000, and half of them sit between $180,000 and $236,000, from 38 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs asking for implementation and data engineering experience in SF Bay Area serving external customers require?
Of 100 postings, 43 state a minimum number of years, from 28 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 21 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (15), under 3 years (4) or 10 or more years (3).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs asking for implementation and data engineering experience in SF Bay Area serving external customers?
These 100 postings come from 47 companies. The employers with the most postings are Accenture (11), Databricks (10), Amazon (incl AWS) (6), OpenAI (6) and Salesforce (6).
Are FDE and deployment jobs asking for implementation and data engineering experience in SF Bay Area serving external customers remote?
17 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 37 are hybrid and 8 are on-site. The remaining 38 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 60 of the 100 postings.
Counted over the 100 postings in this search. Postings read on September 22, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
Employer postings · Locations cover the metro area, not only the city. 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. Coding scope, project stages and who the work serves are our reading of each job description. · How we read postings