$167,400–$310,900
FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area serving external customers and internal teams
30 postings · 26 companies · 25 state pay: median $239,000, half $192,000–$248,000
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AccentureBuilds what the customer runs
Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +38 moreMountain View, CA +39
$112,900–$366,300
$100,000–$160,000
flexportBuilds what the customer runs
Forward Deployed Engineer - Supply Chain Solutions
San Francisco, CAOn-site
$206,181–$252,000
$148,000–$255,000
VapiBuilds what the customer runs
Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$200,000–$280,000
$207,000–$300,000
AccentureBuilds what the customer runs
Agentic Identity Security Consultant
Mountain View, CA · Irving, TX · +39 moreMountain View, CA +40
$54,400–$205,800
BainBuilds what the customer runs
Lead, Engineering Excellence
San Francisco, CA · Atlanta, GA · +8 moreSan Francisco, CA +9Hybrid
$179,875–$203,925
AMDBuilds what the customer runs
Sr. Manager Agentic AI / Data Software Development - DC GPU
San Jose, CAHybrid
Pay not posted
NVIDIABuilds what the customer runs
Senior MLOps Engineer - DSX Enablement
Santa Clara, CA · Seattle, WA · US remoteSanta Clara, CA +1 · US remoteRemote
$184,000–$356,500
DecagonBuilds what the customer runs
Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
San Francisco, CAOn-site
$200,000–$400,000
MolocoBuilds what the customer runs
Staff Software Engineer - Ad Serving - Moloco Commerce Media
Menlo Park, CA
$220,000–$275,000
$170,000–$240,000
$215,000–$275,000
Security Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering
Mountain View, CA · Boston, MA · +4 moreMountain View, CA +5
$159,300–$212,800
CiscoIntegrates and configures it
Forward Deployed Engineer –Service Provider OSS/BSS Integration (Remote)
San Jose, CARemote
$142,900–$253,200
$140,000–$200,000
AnthropicProves it works before the sale
Applied AI, Research Engineer
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$300,000–$400,000
$207,000–$385,000
Pay not posted
$180,000–$225,000
$124,000–$171,000
$220,000–$405,000
Senior Customer Success Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Culver City, CA · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
$180,000–$300,000
$194,600–$293,900
$150,000–$220,000
Senior Customer Success Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Culver City, CA · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
Senior Customer Success Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Culver City, CA · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
14 of 30 build for teams inside the company.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area serving external customers and internal teams pay?
25 of 30 postings state a pay range. The median is $239,000, and half of them sit between $192,000 and $248,000, from 24 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area serving external customers and internal teams require?
Of 30 postings, 18 state a minimum number of years, from 16 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 8 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (8), under 3 years (1) or 10 or more years (1).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area serving external customers and internal teams?
These 30 postings come from 26 companies. The employers with the most postings are Altruist (3), Accenture (2), Apple (2), Amazon (incl AWS) (1) and AMD (1).
Are FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area serving external customers and internal teams remote?
2 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 11 are hybrid and 5 are on-site. The remaining 12 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 9 of the 30 postings.
Counted over the 30 postings in this search. Postings read on September 21, 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. Coding scope, project stages and who the work serves are our reading of each job description. · How we read postings