$185,000–$300,000
Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers
144 postings · 85 companies · 128 state pay: median $240,000, half $208,000–$277,000
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Senior Healthcare Forward Deployed Engineer
Chicago, IL · Milwaukee, WI · +40 moreChicago, IL +41
$80,400–$316,300
$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
$185,000–$300,000
$192,010–$274,300
$110,800–$177,300
$200,000–$260,000
$240,000–$280,000
$192,010–$274,300
$143,640–$273,000
$180,000–$320,000
Pay not posted
$192,010–$274,300
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, FDE US Government
Seattle, WA · Arlington, VA · +2 moreSeattle, WA +3
$168,100–$250,200
Senior/Staff FDE - Synthetic Data Generation
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$180,000–$320,000
$142,800–$304,200
$153,000–$376,000
$182,000–$250,208
Pay not posted
$142,800–$304,200
Staff Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$210,000–$300,000
$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
$180,000–$233,000
$160,000–$270,000
$250,000–$300,000
$235,000–$315,000
$240,000–$290,000
$200,000–$225,000
Pay not posted
$180,000–$400,000
$132,200–$211,500
$189,200–$372,900
85 of 144 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers pay?
128 of 144 postings state a pay range. The median is $240,000, and half of them sit between $208,000 and $277,000, from 74 companies.
How much experience do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers require?
Of 144 postings, 98 state a minimum number of years, from 63 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 48 of them. The rest ask for 10 or more years (28) or 3 to 5 years (22).
Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers?
These 144 postings come from 85 companies. The employers with the most postings are Accenture (9), Deloitte US (9), Amazon (incl AWS) (8), Microsoft (5) and Scale AI (5).
Are staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers remote?
26 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 44 are hybrid and 24 are on-site. The remaining 50 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 76 of the 144 postings.
Counted over the 144 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. Coding scope, project stages and who the work serves are our reading of each job description. · How we read postings