$175,000–$290,000
FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads with production coding
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$200,000–$225,000
reflection.aiProduction engineering
Forward Deployed Engineer, Lead - LLM Post-training
New York, NYOn-site
Pay not posted
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Communications, Media, Entertainment & Games
Washington, DC
$182,000–$250,208
ProfoundProduction engineering
Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1On-site
$140,000–$260,000
$150,000–$175,000
$140,000–$225,000
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Communications, Media, Entertainment & Games
Denver, CO
$182,000–$250,208
OpenAIProduction engineering
Forward Deployed Engineer, Gov
Washington, DC · Seattle, WA · +1 moreWashington, DC +2Hybrid
$145,800–$280,000
$175,000–$240,000 · OTE
Pay not posted
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Communications, Media, Entertainment & Games
Mountain View, CA
$182,000–$250,208
$140,000–$200,000
$190,000–$280,000
Pay not posted
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Communications, Media, Entertainment & Games
Raleigh, NC
$182,000–$250,208
$180,000–$300,000
$165,000–$330,000
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Communications, Media, Entertainment & Games
Philadelphia, PA
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Digital Native Business
San Francisco, CA
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Healthcare & Life Sciences
New York, NY
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Healthcare & Life Sciences
Boston, MA
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Healthcare & Life Sciences
Chicago, ILRemote
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Healthcare & Life Sciences
Dallas, TX
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Healthcare & Life Sciences
Austin, TX
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Healthcare & Life Sciences
Atlanta, GA
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Healthcare & Life Sciences
Philadelphia, PA
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
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$149,800–$262,200
$144,900–$302,100
Pay not posted
$207,000–$300,000
$120,000–$136,000
Pay not posted
$170,000–$210,000
Scale AIProduction engineering
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Public Sector
Denver, CO · Honolulu, HI · +1 moreDenver, CO +2
$235,200–$294,000
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Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads with production coding pay?
628 of 736 postings state a pay range. The median is $203,000, and half of them sit between $167,000 and $230,000, across 249 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads with production coding require?
Of 736 postings, 377 state a minimum number of years, from 184 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 168 of them. The rest ask for 3 to 5 years (155), 10 or more years (37) or under 3 years (17).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads with production coding?
These 736 postings come from 311 companies. The employers with the most postings are Deloitte US (64), Databricks (54), Amazon (incl AWS) (21), Accenture (20) and Google (14).
Are FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads with production coding remote?
133 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 200 are hybrid and 93 are on-site. The remaining 310 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 331 of the 736 postings.
Counted over the 736 postings in this search. Postings read on September 18, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
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