$160,000–$190,000
FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area
490 postings · 255 companies · 405 state pay: median $215,000, half $190,000–$250,000
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$166,500–$231,000
NVIDIAIntegrates and configures it
Senior Solutions Architect, AI Inference
Santa Clara, CA · US remoteRemote
$184,000–$356,500
$208,000–$260,000
$126,000–$188,000
TuringIntegrates and configures it
Field Engineer, AI Labs
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Remote
$175,000–$232,000
NVIDIAIntegrates and configures it
Senior Solutions Architect, NVIDIA Cloud Partner Operations
Santa Clara, CA · US remoteRemote
$224,000–$356,500
$180,000–$225,000
$140,000–$220,000
$230,000–$390,000
NVIDIAIntegrates and configures it
Senior Solutions Architect, Physical AI Cloud
Santa Clara, CARemote
$152,000–$287,500
$150,000–$280,000
$150,000–$300,000
Pay not posted
$184,000–$356,500
$150,000–$225,000
$208,437–$300,000
DiDi GlobalBuilds for teams inside the company
Staff/Principal AI Transformation Engineer
San Jose, CA
$255,000–$351,000
$224,000–$356,500
Baker TillyBuilds for teams inside the company
Principal AI Engineer, Sr AI Engineer
San Jose, CA · Pasadena, CA · +10 moreSan Jose, CA +11
$205,000–$250,000
ZscalerBuilds for teams inside the company
Sr. Staff Applied AI Engineer, GTM
Santa Clara, CA · US remoteRemote
$180,000–$225,000
$130,000–$163,000
$168,000–$322,000
American ExpressBuilds for teams inside the company
Senior AI Engineer II - Forward Deployment - Enterprise AI Platforms
Sunnyvale, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSunnyvale, CA +2
Pay not posted
$137,200–$206,600
LinkedInBuilds for teams inside the company
AI Architect - SaaS GTM Tech & Analytics | IC4
San Francisco, CA · Sunnyvale, CA · +2 moreSan Francisco, CA +3Hybrid
$141,000–$231,000
$224,000–$356,500
American ExpressBuilds for teams inside the company
Senior AI Engineer II - Forward Deployment Engineer - Enterprise AI Platforms
Sunnyvale, CA · New York, NYSunnyvale, CA +1
Pay not posted
AtomsBuilds for teams inside the company
Senior Software Engineer – Bionic Enterprise Platform
Mountain View, CA · San Francisco, CAMountain View, CA +1On-site
$176,000–$242,000
CroweBuilds for teams inside the company
AI Technical Lead
San Jose, CA · Chicago, IL · +35 moreSan Jose, CA +36Hybrid
$102,400–$204,100
NVIDIABuilds for teams inside the company
Senior Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure Solutions
Santa Clara, CA
$152,000–$241,500
VercelBuilds for teams inside the company
GTM Engineer
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
$180,000–$295,000
AtomsBuilds for teams inside the company
Senior Software Engineer – Bionic Enterprise Platform
Mountain View, CA · San Francisco, CAMountain View, CA +1On-site
$176,000–$242,000
EtchedBuilds for teams inside the company
Internal Acceleration, Engineer (Production)
San Jose, CAOn-site
$150,000–$400,000
AppleBuilds for teams inside the company
Senior Software Engineer Enterprise Technology Services
Sunnyvale, CA
$184,700–$277,600
$188,500–$282,700
Bristol Myers SquibbBuilds for teams inside the company
Senior Manager, Research Intelligence Engineer
Princeton, NJ · Tampa, FL · +3 morePrinceton, NJ +4
$134,980–$179,920
Western DigitalBuilds for teams inside the company
Principal Full Stack Developer & Solutions Architect – AI, Data & Cloud
San Jose, CAOn-site
Pay not posted
ZooxBuilds for teams inside the company
Lead AI Engineer – Enterprise, Data & AI
Foster City, CAHybrid
Pay not posted
FaireBuilds for teams inside the company
Growth Platform, Marketing Engineer
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$176,000–$242,000
324 of 490 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area pay?
405 of 490 postings state a pay range. The median is $215,000, and half of them sit between $190,000 and $250,000, from 195 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area require?
Of 490 postings, 376 state a minimum number of years, from 217 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 207 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (95), under 3 years (44) or 10 or more years (30).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area?
These 490 postings come from 255 companies. The employers with the most postings are Amazon (incl AWS) (23), OpenAI (22), Accenture (20), NVIDIA (20) and Google (16).
Are FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area remote?
43 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 136 are hybrid and 130 are on-site. The remaining 181 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 199 of the 490 postings.
Counted over the 490 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