Principal Software Engineer / Architect – AI, CoCounsel FDE
New York, NY · Frisco, TX · +7 moreNew York, NY +8Hybrid
$158,900–$340,000
Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for software engineering experience
170 postings · 118 companies · 152 state pay: median $215,000, half $177,000–$254,000
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$120,000–$150,000
Partner Forward Deployed Engineer V, GenAI, Google Cloud
New York, NY · Sunnyvale, CANew York, NY +1
$262,000–$364,000
$185,000–$300,000
Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI, CoCounsel FDE
Frisco, TX · Ann Arbor, MI · +1 moreFrisco, TX +2Hybrid
$137,100–$254,700
$124,646–$168,272
$142,800–$274,800
$143,640–$273,000
$220,000–$300,000
Partner Forward Deployed Engineer IV, GenAI, Google Cloud
New York, NY · Sunnyvale, CANew York, NY +1
$207,000–$300,000
$119,800–$234,700
AI Engineer - FDE Software Engineering Sr. Manager
New York, NY · Milwaukee, WI · +40 moreNew York, NY +41
$112,900–$302,400
$236,000–$289,000
$185,000–$300,000
$192,010–$274,300
$110,800–$177,300
$240,000–$280,000
$143,640–$273,000
$215,100–$384,400
Senior/Staff FDE - Synthetic Data Generation
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$180,000–$320,000
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, FDE US Government
Seattle, WA · Arlington, VA · +2 moreSeattle, WA +3
$168,100–$250,200
$142,800–$304,200
$182,000–$250,208
$180,000–$320,000
Pay not posted
$142,800–$304,200
$230,000–$275,000
$168,912–$253,368
$200,000–$270,000
Staff Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2
$252,000–$315,000
Pay not posted
$156,060–$211,140
$235,000–$315,000
$240,000–$290,000
$160,000–$270,000
$200,000–$225,000
Principal Backend Engineer (Forward Deployed)
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$250,000–$300,000
Pay not posted
Staff Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$210,000–$300,000
$132,200–$211,500
82 of 170 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for software engineering experience pay?
152 of 170 postings state a pay range. The median is $215,000, and half of them sit between $177,000 and $254,000, from 103 companies.
How much experience do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for software engineering experience require?
Of 170 postings, 127 state a minimum number of years, from 90 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 67 of them. The rest ask for 3 to 5 years (34), 10 or more years (25) or under 3 years (1).
Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for software engineering experience?
These 170 postings come from 118 companies. The employers with the most postings are Google (8), Deloitte US (7), Accenture (6), Microsoft (5) and Scale AI (5).
Are staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for software engineering experience remote?
28 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 59 are hybrid and 22 are on-site. The remaining 61 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 56 of the 170 postings.
Counted over the 170 postings in this search. Postings read on September 23, 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