$133,400–$226,800
Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers
173 postings · 110 companies · 144 state pay: median $230,000, half $208,000–$272,000
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$180,000–$240,000
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government
Denver, CO · Jessup, MD · +3 moreDenver, CO +4
$168,100–$227,400
Pay not posted
$197,800–$271,975
$155,000–$225,000
$200,000–$287,500
$194,736.75–$265,613.9
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government
Jessup, MD · Arlington, VA · +4 moreJessup, MD +5
$168,100–$250,200
$248,700–$341,250
$145,600–$240,695
Pay not posted
$183,997–$257,000
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization)
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +3 moreBoston, MA +4
$168,100–$250,200
$304,000–$437,000
$191,000–$289,300
$150,000–$200,000
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$264,000–$379,500
$191,000–$289,300
Pay not posted
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$199,000–$325,000
Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI - Manager - Financial Services - Consulting
Charlotte, NC · Dallas, TX · +2 moreCharlotte, NC +3Hybrid
$125,500–$261,600
$198,000–$319,000/mo
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
Forward Deployed Engineer & Agentic Workflow Engineer
US · city not listedHybrid
$150,000–$285,000
Pay not posted
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1On-site
$215,000–$275,000
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government
Jessup, MD · Arlington, VA · +4 moreJessup, MD +5
$168,100–$250,200
Avathon (formerly SparkCognition)
Technical Architect - Forward Deployed Engineering
Pleasanton, CA · Austin, TXPleasanton, CA +1On-site
$170,000–$220,000
Principal Software Engineer / Architect – AI, CoCounsel FDE
New York, NY · Frisco, TX · +7 moreNew York, NY +8Hybrid
$158,900–$340,000
Partner Forward Deployed Engineer V, GenAI, Google Cloud
New York, NY · Sunnyvale, CANew York, NY +1
$262,000–$364,000
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$158,520–$294,360
Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI, CoCounsel FDE
Frisco, TX · Ann Arbor, MI · +1 moreFrisco, TX +2Hybrid
$137,100–$254,700
$124,646–$168,272
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +4 moreBoston, MA +5On-site
$168,100–$261,500
$143,640–$273,000
$175,000–$200,000
117 of 173 build what the customer runs.
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What do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers pay?
144 of 173 postings state a pay range. The median is $230,000, and half of them sit between $208,000 and $272,000, from 85 companies.
How much experience do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers require?
Of 173 postings, 151 state a minimum number of years, from 99 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 74 of them. The rest ask for 10 or more years (42) or 3 to 5 years (35).
Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers?
These 173 postings come from 110 companies. The employers with the most postings are Amazon (incl AWS) (14), Deloitte US (8), Accenture (5), Robots & Pencils (5) and ServiceNow (5).
Are staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers remote?
37 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 51 are hybrid and 24 are on-site. The remaining 61 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 89 of the 173 postings.
Counted over the 173 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 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. Coding scope, project stages and who the work serves are our reading of each job description. · How we read postings