$208,600–$312,900
FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for solutions and customer engineering experience in SF Bay Area
97 postings · 64 companies · 81 state pay: median $230,000, half $207,000–$260,000
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$184,000–$356,500
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization)
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$185,000–$300,000
$270,000–$300,000 · OTE
$184,000–$356,500
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization)
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +3 moreBoston, MA +4
$168,100–$250,200
$180,000–$480,000
$201,300–$352,300
$198,000–$319,000/mo
$180,000–$220,000
AI Forward Deployed Engineering Manager | Sales ReInvention
Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +41 moreMountain View, CA +42On-site
$80,400–$316,300
$180,000–$300,000
Avathon (formerly SparkCognition)
Technical Architect - Forward Deployed Engineering
Pleasanton, CA · Austin, TXPleasanton, CA +1On-site
$170,000–$220,000
Principal Software Engineer / Architect – AI, CoCounsel FDE
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +7 moreSan Francisco, CA +8Hybrid
$158,900–$340,000
AI Forward Deployed Engineering Senior Manager | Sales ReInvention
Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +41 moreMountain View, CA +42
$112,900–$366,300
$137,160–$228,480
$185,000–$300,000
Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer - Computer Use Agents
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$180,000–$320,000
$159,200–$301,600
$158,520–$294,360
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-SF
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$185,000–$300,000
$230,000–$300,000
$190,000–$230,000
$180,000–$233,000
$185,000–$300,000
$175,000–$240,000 · OTE
Staff Solutions Engineer - FDSE Public Sector - Splunk (Remote)
San Jose, CA · Reston, VA · +6 moreSan Jose, CA +7Remote
$246,800–$394,300
ML Ops DSX Senior Engineer
Santa Clara, CA · Seattle, WA · US remoteSanta Clara, CA +1 · US remoteRemote
$184,000–$356,500
$143,200–$243,400
$207,000–$300,000
Staff Applied AI Engineer - Enterprise AI Solutions
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · US remoteSan Francisco, CA +1 · US remoteRemote
$230,000–$360,000
$234,000–$286,000
$166,500–$291,400
AI Customer and Partner Solutions Engineer, Cloud Applied AI
Sunnyvale, CA · Kirkland, WASunnyvale, CA +1
$183,000–$265,000
Pay not posted
$250,000–$330,000
$190,900–$334,100
$184,000–$287,500
$108,000–$170,000
47 of 97 build what the customer runs.
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Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for solutions and customer engineering experience in SF Bay Area pay?
81 of 97 postings state a pay range. The median is $230,000, and half of them sit between $207,000 and $260,000, from 50 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for solutions and customer engineering experience in SF Bay Area require?
Of 97 postings, 79 state a minimum number of years, from 57 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 42 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (27), under 3 years (5) or 10 or more years (5).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for solutions and customer engineering experience in SF Bay Area?
These 97 postings come from 64 companies. The employers with the most postings are NVIDIA (10), OpenAI (9), Aircall (4), ServiceNow (4) and Google (3).
Are FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads asking for solutions and customer engineering experience in SF Bay Area remote?
17 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 36 are hybrid and 20 are on-site. The remaining 24 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 41 of the 97 postings.
Counted over the 97 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 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