$160,000–$180,000
FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers
855 postings · 287 companies · 720 state pay: median $208,000, half $173,000–$233,000
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$160,000–$200,000
AnthropicProves it works before the sale
Applied AI Architect, Commercial
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$240,000–$315,000
Scale AILeads the deployment team
Frontier Agent Engineering Manager, Enterprise
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1
$252,000–$315,000
$165,000–$315,000 · OTE
Pay not posted
$200,000–$250,000 · OTE
$165,000–$380,000 · OTE
$160,000–$180,000
$164,500–$296,700
Pay not posted
$150,000–$250,000 · OTE
LangChainProves it works before the sale
Deployed Engineer (Early Career- SF)
San Francisco, CAOn-site
$160,000–$175,000 · OTE
$165,000–$380,000 · OTE
$150,000–$250,000 · OTE
616 of 855 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers pay?
720 of 855 postings state a pay range. The median is $208,000, and half of them sit between $173,000 and $233,000, from 223 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers require?
Of 855 postings, 482 state a minimum number of years, from 204 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 229 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (175), under 3 years (42) or 10 or more years (36).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers?
These 855 postings come from 287 companies. The employers with the most postings are Deloitte US (66), Databricks (63), Amazon (incl AWS) (32), Accenture (28) and Booz Allen (28).
Are FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience serving external customers remote?
146 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 217 are hybrid and 129 are on-site. The remaining 363 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 461 of the 855 postings.
Counted over the 855 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. Coding scope, project stages and who the work serves are our reading of each job description. · How we read postings