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Senior AI Engineer
Atlanta, GA · Kansas City, MO · +1 moreAtlanta, GA +2Hybrid
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CapTech ConsultingProduction engineering
Lead Machine Learning / Data Science Engineer
Philadelphia, PAHybrid
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CGS Federal (Contact Government Services)Production engineering
FSR Engineer
US · city not listedOn-site
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CapTech ConsultingProduction engineering
Lead Machine Learning / Data Science Engineer
Atlanta, GAHybrid
Pay not posted
$310,000–$500,000
CGS Federal (Contact Government Services)Production engineering
FSR Engineer
Colorado Springs, COOn-site
Pay not posted
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Ode with AnthropicProduction engineering
Staff Software Engineer (SF/NY)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$275,000–$400,000
$211,000–$302,000
Snorkel AIProduction engineering
Applied AI Engineer, Federal - Top Secret Clearance
New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · US remoteNew York, NY +1 · US remoteRemote
$170,000–$300,000 · OTE
$170,000–$215,000
$180,000–$400,000
Scale AIProduction engineering
Field Engineer, Data Engine
Colorado Springs, CO · Omaha, NE · +2 moreColorado Springs, CO +3
$140,000–$290,000
$166,000–$220,000
$170,000–$215,000
$180,000–$210,000
Scale AIProduction engineering
Infrastructure Software Engineer, Enterprise GenAI
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1
$179,400–$224,250
$100,000–$300,000
LangChainProduction engineering
Deployed Architect, Professional Services (Remote)
Los Angeles, CARemote
$170,000–$215,000
$191,000–$253,000
$210,000–$260,000
Scale AIProduction engineering
Senior Software Engineer, Public Sector
San Francisco, CA · Saint Louis, MO · +2 moreSan Francisco, CA +3On-site
$162,400–$311,000
LangChainProduction engineering
Deployed Architect, Professional Services (San Francisco)
San Francisco, CAOn-site
$170,000–$215,000
$191,000–$253,000
$140,000–$240,000
$160,000–$210,000 · OTE
$152,000–$241,500
$191,000–$253,000
$200,000–$250,000
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StriveworksProduction engineering
Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Active Secret Clearance)
Austin, TXRemote
$210,000–$260,000
Pay not posted
LiberateProduction engineering
Staff AI Agent Engineer
Boston, MA · San Francisco, CABoston, MA +1Hybrid
Pay not posted
$160,000–$500,000
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What do FDE jobs pay?
1,154 of 1,457 postings state a pay range. The median is $195,000, and half of them sit between $162,000 and $225,000, across 446 companies.
How much experience do FDE jobs require?
Of 1,457 postings, 615 state a minimum number of years, from 323 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 292 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (223), under 3 years (65) or 10 or more years (35).
Which companies are hiring for FDE jobs?
These 1,457 postings come from 594 companies. The employers with the most postings are Databricks (62), Amazon (incl AWS) (48), Booz Allen (35), Palantir (32) and Anduril (27).
Are FDE jobs remote?
251 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 371 are hybrid and 333 are on-site. The remaining 502 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 435 of the 1,457 postings.
Counted over the 1,457 postings in this search. Postings read on September 20, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
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