Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +2 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +3
$143,700–$223,600
FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area
496 postings · 259 companies · 412 state pay: median $215,000, half $190,000–$250,000
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$180,000–$480,000
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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Sr Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$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
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
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
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$201,300–$352,300
$152,000–$221,000
Pay not posted
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$160,000–$265,000
$120,000–$210,000
$198,000–$319,000/mo
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector
San Francisco, CA · Washington, DCSan Francisco, CA +1
Pay not posted
$180,000–$220,000
Forward Deployed Engineer - Cybersecurity - US
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$170,000–$400,000
$168,100–$261,500
Pay not posted
AI Forward Deployed Engineering Manager | Sales ReInvention
Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +41 moreMountain View, CA +42On-site
$80,400–$316,300
$200,000–$275,000
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$180,000–$300,000
AI Forward Deployed Engineering Senior Manager | Sales ReInvention
Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +41 moreMountain View, CA +42
$112,900–$366,300
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1On-site
$215,000–$275,000
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +4 moreBoston, MA +5On-site
$168,100–$261,500
Avathon (formerly SparkCognition)
Technical Architect - Forward Deployed Engineering
Pleasanton, CA · Austin, TXPleasanton, CA +1On-site
$170,000–$220,000
$221,000–$275,000
Principal Software Engineer / Architect – AI, CoCounsel FDE
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +7 moreSan Francisco, CA +8Hybrid
$158,900–$340,000
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Bellevue, WA · +4 moreBoston, MA +5On-site
$168,100–$261,500
Sr./Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Dallas, TX · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Remote
$270,400–$401,600
Partner Forward Deployed Engineer V, GenAI, Google Cloud
Sunnyvale, CA · New York, NYSunnyvale, CA +1
$262,000–$364,000
$137,160–$228,480
328 of 496 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area pay?
412 of 496 postings state a pay range. The median is $215,000, and half of them sit between $190,000 and $250,000, from 199 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area require?
Of 496 postings, 382 state a minimum number of years, from 221 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 210 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (97), under 3 years (44) or 10 or more years (31).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area?
These 496 postings come from 259 companies. The employers with the most postings are Amazon (incl AWS) (23), OpenAI (22), NVIDIA (21), Accenture (19) 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 138 are hybrid and 132 are on-site. The remaining 183 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 202 of the 496 postings.
Counted over the 496 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