$185,000–$300,000
FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area with production coding and significant travel
121 postings · 56 companies · 105 state pay: median $215,000, half $185,000–$240,000
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Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer - Public Sector
Berkeley, CA · Kansas City, MO · +1 moreBerkeley, CA +2Remote
$182,000–$250,208
$180,000–$220,000
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$130,000–$210,000
Forward Deployed Engineer - Cleared - US
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$170,000–$400,000
$185,000–$300,000
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
San Francisco, CA · Boston, MA · +4 moreSan Francisco, CA +5
$168,100–$261,500
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer | New York or San Francisco (Onsite)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1On-site
$136,000–$216,000
Forward Deployed Software Engineer-Palantir Foundry-Senior Associate
San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +57 moreSan Francisco, CA +58Hybrid
$77,000–$202,000
$191,000–$289,300
Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$143,700–$223,600
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
$280,000–$320,000
$220,000–$270,000
$170,000–$225,000
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization)
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$201,300–$352,300
Pay not posted
$198,000–$319,000/mo
Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +3 moreBoston, MA +4
$143,700–$213,800
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector
San Francisco, CA · Washington, DCSan Francisco, CA +1
Pay not posted
Forward Deployed Engineer - Cybersecurity - US
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$170,000–$400,000
Forward Deployed Engineer (Implementation Engineering)
San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Remote
$170,000–$200,000
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +4 moreBoston, MA +5
$168,100–$261,500
$175,000–$265,000
$180,000–$300,000
$97,860–$316,750
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization)
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +3 moreBoston, MA +4
$168,100–$250,200
AI Engineer - FDE Software Engineering Sr. Manager
Mountain View, CA · New York, NY · +40 moreMountain View, CA +41
$112,900–$302,400
Pay not posted
$185,000–$300,000
Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +2 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +3
$143,700–$223,600
Full Stack Forward Deployed Engineering Manager
Mountain View, CA · Arlington, VA · +35 moreMountain View, CA +36
$80,400–$316,300
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector
San Francisco, CA · Washington, DCSan Francisco, CA +1On-site
$167,000–$203,000
$200,000–$300,000
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Sr Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
Forward Deployed AI Engineer Sr Manager
Mountain View, CA · Chicago, IL · +38 moreMountain View, CA +39
$112,900–$366,300
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-SF
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$185,000–$300,000
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) — Agentforce Orchestration
San Francisco, CA · Atlanta, GA · +9 moreSan Francisco, CA +10
$88,970–$316,750
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
100 of 121 build what the customer runs.
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Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area with production coding and significant travel pay?
105 of 121 postings state a pay range. The median is $215,000, and half of them sit between $185,000 and $240,000, from 46 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area with production coding and significant travel require?
Of 121 postings, 85 state a minimum number of years, from 37 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 54 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (15), under 3 years (12) or 10 or more years (4).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area with production coding and significant travel?
These 121 postings come from 56 companies. The employers with the most postings are Amazon (incl AWS) (22), Accenture (17), OpenAI (8), Luminary (5) and Salesforce (5).
Are FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area with production coding and significant travel remote?
15 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 34 are hybrid and 25 are on-site. The remaining 47 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 121 of the 121 postings.
Counted over the 121 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. Coding scope, project stages and who the work serves are our reading of each job description. Travel is the share the posting states. Postings that never mention travel are left out. · How we read postings