Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience
1,711 postings · 811 companies · 1,308 state pay: median $200,000, half $169,000–$230,000
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$134,700–$202,200
Forward Deployed Engineer, Kaggle, DeepMind (Fixed-Term Contract)
Mountain View, CA · New York, NYMountain View, CA +1
$174,000–$232,000
$152,152–$205,405
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +4 moreBoston, MA +5On-site
$168,100–$261,500
Pay not posted
$170,000–$225,000
Pay not posted
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Bellevue, WA · +4 moreBoston, MA +5On-site
$168,100–$261,500
$201,300–$352,300
Pay not posted
$152,000–$221,000
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$133,400–$226,800
Pay not posted
$154,975–$192,553
$199,000–$325,000
$105,400–$207,800
Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI - Manager - Financial Services - Consulting
Charlotte, NC · Dallas, TX · +2 moreCharlotte, NC +3Hybrid
$125,500–$261,600
Pay not posted
$160,000–$265,000
$105,400–$207,800
$120,000–$210,000
$180,000–$240,000
$111,000–$180,000
$160,000–$225,000
$150,000–$220,000
$198,000–$319,000/mo
$110,000–$170,000
$128,000–$192,000
Pay not posted
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector
Washington, DC · San Francisco, CAWashington, DC +1
Pay not posted
$150,000–$190,000
$180,000–$220,000
$180,000–$225,000
Pay not posted
$150,000–$190,000
Forward Deployed Engineer - Cybersecurity - US
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$170,000–$400,000
$192,000–$455,000
Pay not posted
1,065 of 1,711 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience pay?
1,308 of 1,711 postings state a pay range. The median is $200,000, and half of them sit between $169,000 and $230,000, from 569 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience require?
Of 1,711 postings, 1,367 state a minimum number of years, from 721 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 721 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (405), under 3 years (135) or 10 or more years (106).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience?
These 1,711 postings come from 811 companies. The employers with the most postings are Databricks (64), Deloitte US (64), Amazon (incl AWS) (59), OpenAI (35) and Anduril (30).
Are FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience remote?
361 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 407 are hybrid and 324 are on-site. The remaining 619 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 747 of the 1,711 postings.
Counted over the 1,711 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 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