Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
FDE jobs that build what the customer runs asking for software engineering experience
1,064 postings · 515 companies · 797 state pay: median $205,000, half $172,000–$230,000
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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
Pay not posted
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +4 moreBoston, MA +5On-site
$168,100–$261,500
$170,000–$225,000
Pay not posted
$201,300–$352,300
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Bellevue, WA · +4 moreBoston, MA +5On-site
$168,100–$261,500
Pay not posted
$152,000–$221,000
$133,400–$226,800
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
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
Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI - Senior - Financial Services - Consulting
Charlotte, NC · Dallas, TX · +2 moreCharlotte, NC +3Hybrid
$106,900–$176,500
All 1,064 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE jobs that build what the customer runs asking for software engineering experience pay?
797 of 1,064 postings state a pay range. The median is $205,000, and half of them sit between $172,000 and $230,000, from 342 companies.
How much experience do FDE jobs that build what the customer runs asking for software engineering experience require?
Of 1,064 postings, 846 state a minimum number of years, from 452 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 480 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (242), under 3 years (82) or 10 or more years (42).
Which companies are hiring for FDE jobs that build what the customer runs asking for software engineering experience?
These 1,064 postings come from 515 companies. The employers with the most postings are Databricks (57), Deloitte US (51), Amazon (incl AWS) (34), Accenture (25) and OpenAI (25).
Are FDE jobs that build what the customer runs asking for software engineering experience remote?
233 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 251 are hybrid and 197 are on-site. The remaining 383 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 558 of the 1,064 postings.
Counted over the 1,064 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