$130,800–$209,400
FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for software engineering experience
590 postings · 241 companies · 520 state pay: median $207,000, half $172,000–$231,000
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AppleBuilds for teams inside the company
Lead Developer, AI Workflows & Media Supply Chain
Culver City, CAOn-site
Pay not posted
$146,370–$246,000
$144,500–$180,600
AndurilBuilds for teams inside the company
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Intelligence
Santa Ana, CA
$220,000–$292,000
The Travelers CompaniesBuilds for teams inside the company
Software Engineer II – AI Agents & Harnesses
Hartford, CT
$120,400–$198,700
PrologisBuilds for teams inside the company
Senior AI Automation Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Denver, COSan Francisco, CA +1
$124,000–$171,000
Reframe SystemsBuilds for teams inside the company
Full Stack Software Engineer - Platform Software
Andover, MAOn-site
$140,000–$180,000
$143,000–$191,000
PerplexityBuilds for teams inside the company
Legal and Operations Engineering Lead
San Francisco, CAHybrid
$150,000–$250,000
TWG GlobalBuilds for teams inside the company
Staff / VP, Data Science - Marketing & Sales Focus
New York, NYHybrid
$280,000–$300,000
$106,200–$182,983
VizientBuilds for teams inside the company
Sr. AI Delivery & Operations Engineer
Chicago, IL · Irving, TX · +1 moreChicago, IL +2
$102,400–$179,000
HARMAN InternationalBuilds for teams inside the company
Principal Engineer - HR AI Solutions
Novi, MIHybrid
$125,250–$183,700
Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL)Builds for teams inside the company
Forward Deploy Engineer
Chicago, IL · San Francisco, CAChicago, IL +1Remote
$220,000–$320,000
$112,200–$190,700
T-MobileBuilds for teams inside the company
Sr Forward Deployment Engineer
Bellevue, WA · Frisco, TXBellevue, WA +1
$142,300–$256,700
HARMAN InternationalBuilds for teams inside the company
Principal Engineer - Supply Chain AI Solutions
Novi, MIHybrid
$125,250–$183,700
PrologisBuilds for teams inside the company
Lead AI Engineer
Denver, CO · San Francisco, CA · +3 moreDenver, CO +4On-site
$147,000–$202,000
$145,400–$257,600
$159,780–$238,080
AndurilBuilds for teams inside the company
Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer, ArsenalOS Deployment
Costa Mesa, CA
$220,000–$290,000
$240,000–$300,000
$200,000–$247,000
TwilioBuilds for teams inside the company
Senior Technical Program Manager, Services Tools & Diagnostics
USRemote
$188,240–$276,700
$179,273–$286,837
Danaher CorporationBuilds for teams inside the company
Senior AI Engineer, Legal - USA Remote
USRemote
$185,000–$200,000
Pay not posted
Ro (Modern Fertility)Builds for teams inside the company
Senior Engineer, Applied AI
New York, NYHybrid
$182,300–$220,000
$100,000–$145,000
Pay not posted
$129,000–$171,000
$154,445–$185,334
$100,000–$145,000
Pay not posted
$129,000–$171,000
Distyl AILeads the deployment team
AI Engineer, Enterprise Lead
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$200,000–$250,000
$227,200–$324,500
DatabricksBuilds for teams inside the company
Staff Fullstack Engineer, Agentic Applications
Mountain View, CA
$192,000–$260,000
$129,000–$171,000
366 of 590 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for software engineering experience pay?
520 of 590 postings state a pay range. The median is $207,000, and half of them sit between $172,000 and $231,000, from 198 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for software engineering experience require?
Of 590 postings, 360 state a minimum number of years, from 173 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 173 of them. The rest ask for 3 to 5 years (147), 10 or more years (29) or under 3 years (11).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for software engineering experience?
These 590 postings come from 241 companies. The employers with the most postings are Databricks (60), Deloitte US (59), Google (17), Accenture (15) and Amazon (incl AWS) (14).
Are FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for software engineering experience remote?
103 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 151 are hybrid and 62 are on-site. The remaining 274 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 286 of the 590 postings.
Counted over the 590 postings in this search. Postings read on September 22, 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