Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization)
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +3 moreBoston, MA +4
$168,100–$250,200
Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for solutions and customer engineering experience with significant travel
26 postings · 18 companies · 25 state pay: median $249,000, half $224,000–$266,000
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$150,000–$200,000
$198,000–$319,000/mo
Avathon (formerly SparkCognition)
Technical Architect - Forward Deployed Engineering
Pleasanton, CA · Austin, TXPleasanton, CA +1On-site
$170,000–$220,000
$185,000–$300,000
$310,000–$350,000
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Arlington, VA · Herndon, VA · +1 moreArlington, VA +2
$200,100–$270,600
$142,800–$304,200
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Denver, CO · New York, NY · +2 moreDenver, CO +3
$200,100–$297,700
Staff Applied AI Engineer - Enterprise AI Solutions
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · US remoteSan Francisco, CA +1 · US remoteRemote
$230,000–$360,000
$190,900–$334,100
OpenAILeads the deployment team
Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, Financial Services
New York, NYHybrid
$302,000–$385,000
$230,000–$294,000
$230,000–$294,000
$302,000–$385,000
$192,610–$338,994
Johnson & JohnsonLeads the deployment team
Director, Global Forward Deployed AI Programs
Raritan, NJ · Horsham, PARaritan, NJ +1
$164,000–$282,900
$320,000–$488,750
AfreshLeads the deployment team
Founding Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering
San Francisco, CAHybrid
$203,745–$275,655
Pay not posted
MicrosoftPlans what the customer deploys first
Principal Technical Program Manager - FDE
US · city not listed
$142,800–$304,200
Qualified HealthIntegrates and configures it
Staff / Principal Forward-Deployed Architect, Data Modernization
USRemote
$190,000–$250,000
$210,000–$232,500
$320,000–$405,000
$207,000–$294,000
$215,000–$245,000
11 of 26 build what the customer runs.
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Frequently asked questions
What do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for solutions and customer engineering experience with significant travel pay?
25 of 26 postings state a pay range. The median is $249,000, and half of them sit between $224,000 and $266,000, from 17 companies.
How much experience do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for solutions and customer engineering experience with significant travel require?
Of 26 postings, 23 state a minimum number of years, from 16 companies. The most common requirement is 10 or more years, in 11 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (8) or 3 to 5 years (4).
Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for solutions and customer engineering experience with significant travel?
These 26 postings come from 18 companies. The employers with the most postings are OpenAI (6), Amazon (incl AWS) (3), Microsoft (2), Aerovy (1) and Afresh (1).
Are staff-level FDE and deployment jobs asking for solutions and customer engineering experience with significant travel remote?
7 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 10 are hybrid and 1 are on-site. The remaining 8 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 26 of the 26 postings.
Counted over the 26 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
Employer postings · Responsibility levels reflect our reading of the work, not just the employer’s title. 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. Travel is the share the posting states. Postings that never mention travel are left out. · How we read postings