Forward Deployed Engineer III, Data Cloud, Google Cloud
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +5 moreSan Francisco, CA +6
$174,000–$252,000
FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area
230 postings · 160 companies · 180 state pay: median $203,000, half $175,000–$238,000
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$195,000–$225,000
$191,475–$260,830
Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$143,700–$223,600
$207,000–$300,000
$120,000–$200,000
Forward Deployed Engineer (U.S. Government / IL5)
San Francisco, CA · Los Altos, CASan Francisco, CA +1On-site
$130,000–$170,000
Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +3 moreBoston, MA +4
$143,700–$213,800
Forward Deployed Engineer, Generative AI, Geo
Mountain View, CA · New York, NY · +2 moreMountain View, CA +3
$152,000–$221,000
Pay not posted
$120,000–$200,000
Pay not posted
$110,000–$140,000
$180,000–$250,000
$190,000–$238,000
Capgemini Invent, Consultant, Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Atlanta, GA · +4 moreSan Francisco, CA +5
$110,000–$137,500
Forward Deployed Engineer, Kaggle, DeepMind (Fixed-Term Contract)
Mountain View, CA · New York, NYMountain View, CA +1
$174,000–$232,000
$170,000–$225,000
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
$160,000–$265,000
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector
San Francisco, CA · Washington, DCSan Francisco, CA +1
Pay not posted
$200,000–$275,000
$221,000–$275,000
Sr./Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Dallas, TX · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Remote
$270,400–$401,600
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1On-site
$220,000–$300,000
$182,000–$250,208
$100,000–$300,000
Pay not posted
$130,000–$200,000
Pay not posted
$115,000–$130,000
Pay not posted
Forward Deployed Engineer III, Generative AI, Google Cloud
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +8 moreSan Francisco, CA +9
$174,000–$252,000
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector
San Francisco, CA · Washington, DCSan Francisco, CA +1On-site
$167,000–$203,000
Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer
Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +39 moreMountain View, CA +40
$54,400–$235,100
$200,000–$300,000
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-NYC
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$185,000–$300,000
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer - US
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
Palantir Forward Deployed Senior Engineer
Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +39 moreMountain View, CA +40
$80,400–$316,300
159 of 230 build what the customer runs.
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Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area pay?
180 of 230 postings state a pay range. The median is $203,000, and half of them sit between $175,000 and $238,000, from 120 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area require?
Of 230 postings, 165 state a minimum number of years, from 134 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 105 of them. The rest ask for under 3 years (37), 6 to 9 years (18) or 10 or more years (5).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area?
These 230 postings come from 160 companies. The employers with the most postings are OpenAI (11), Accenture (6), Amazon (incl AWS) (5), Google (5) and Salesforce (5).
Are FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area remote?
17 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 68 are hybrid and 78 are on-site. The remaining 67 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 91 of the 230 postings.
Counted over the 230 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 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. · How we read postings