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FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors asking for software engineering experience
785 postings · 491 companies · 554 state pay: median $188,000, half $160,000–$216,000
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Senior MLOps Engineer - DSX Enablement
Santa Clara, CA · Seattle, WA · US remoteSanta Clara, CA +1 · US remoteRemote
$184,000–$356,500
$86,800–$198,000
$120,000–$160,000
$150,000–$175,000
$145,000–$175,000
$347,000–$385,000
$160,000–$200,000
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$69,300–$158,000
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$347,000–$385,000
$199,000–$271,000
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$99,000–$225,000
Senior Software Engineer: Integrations
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
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Staff Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2
$265,000–$331,000
$191,000–$254,000
$180,000–$220,000
Senior Software Engineer: Deployments
San Francisco, CA · Atherton, CA · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
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Senior Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2
$216,000–$270,000
$125,000–$175,000
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Senior Software Engineer: Solutions
San Francisco, CA · Atherton, CA · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
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Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2
$180,000–$225,000
502 of 785 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors asking for software engineering experience pay?
554 of 785 postings state a pay range. The median is $188,000, and half of them sit between $160,000 and $216,000, from 336 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors asking for software engineering experience require?
Of 785 postings, 597 state a minimum number of years, from 416 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 373 of them. The rest ask for under 3 years (105), 6 to 9 years (102) or 10 or more years (17).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors asking for software engineering experience?
These 785 postings come from 491 companies. The employers with the most postings are SpaceX (20), Anduril (18), Amazon (incl AWS) (17), OpenAI (17) and Booz Allen (15).
Are FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors asking for software engineering experience remote?
171 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 184 are hybrid and 195 are on-site. The remaining 235 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 294 of the 785 postings.
Counted over the 785 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
Employer postings · 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