$167,400–$310,900
FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area
352 postings · 172 companies · 296 state pay: median $216,000, half $192,000–$254,000
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GenAI Forward Deployed Engineer IV, GenMedia, Google Cloud
San Francisco, CA · San Diego, CA · +4 moreSan Francisco, CA +5
$207,000–$300,000
Senior Healthcare Forward Deployed Engineer
Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +40 moreMountain View, CA +41
$80,400–$316,300
Forward Deployed Engineer - Physical AI
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TXSan Francisco, CA +1Remote
Pay not posted
$220,000–$300,000
Partner Forward Deployed Engineer III, GenAI, Google Cloud
Sunnyvale, CA · New York, NYSunnyvale, CA +1
$174,000–$252,000
AI Engineer - FDE Software Engineering Sr. Manager
Mountain View, CA · New York, NY · +40 moreMountain View, CA +41
$112,900–$302,400
$150,000–$250,000
$182,000–$250,208
Forward Deployed Engineer III, Google Cloud, Applied AI
San Francisco, CA · Atlanta, GA · +10 moreSan Francisco, CA +11
$174,000–$252,000
$185,000–$300,000
$189,000–$330,000
$182,000–$250,208
Partner Forward Deployed Engineer IV, GenAI, Google Cloud
Sunnyvale, CA · New York, NYSunnyvale, CA +1
$207,000–$300,000
$194,000–$266,000
$190,000–$220,000
$182,000–$250,208
Forward Deployed Engineer IV, Applied AI, Google Cloud
San Francisco, CA · Atlanta, GA · +8 moreSan Francisco, CA +9
$207,000–$300,000
Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +38 moreMountain View, CA +39
$112,900–$366,300
$222,000–$290,000
$182,000–$250,208
$207,000–$300,000
$180,000–$320,000
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-SF
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$185,000–$300,000
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Mountain View, CA · Boston, MA · +6 moreMountain View, CA +7
$168,100–$261,500
Forward Deployed Engineer IV, GenAI, Google Cloud
San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +22 moreSan Francisco, CA +23
$207,000–$300,000
Senior/Staff FDE - Synthetic Data Generation
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$180,000–$320,000
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-NYC
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$185,000–$300,000
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer - US
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
$153,000–$376,000
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) — Agentforce Orchestration
San Francisco, CA · Atlanta, GA · +9 moreSan Francisco, CA +10
$88,970–$316,750
$194,400–$228,800
$180,000–$300,000
$100,000–$160,000
$182,000–$250,208
$190,000–$240,000
Pay not posted
$230,000–$316,250
$201,300–$352,300
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer - US
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
199 of 352 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area pay?
296 of 352 postings state a pay range. The median is $216,000, and half of them sit between $192,000 and $254,000, from 138 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area require?
Of 352 postings, 203 state a minimum number of years, from 121 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 106 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (65), under 3 years (19) or 10 or more years (13).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area?
These 352 postings come from 172 companies. The employers with the most postings are Accenture (18), OpenAI (18), Google (14), NVIDIA (14) and Amazon (incl AWS) (10).
Are FDE and deployment jobs asking for software engineering experience in SF Bay Area remote?
33 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 127 are hybrid and 78 are on-site. The remaining 114 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 131 of the 352 postings.
Counted over the 352 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. · How we read postings