$250,000–$425,000
FDE jobs across the US
625 postings · 165 companies · 622 state pay: median $216,000, half $185,000–$243,000
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$191,000–$253,000
CoxBuilds for teams inside the company
Sr Software Engineer
Atlanta, GA · Austin, TX · +1 moreAtlanta, GA +2Hybrid
$101,500–$169,100
TuringLeads the deployment team
Staff Research Engineer
Palo Alto, CA · San Francisco, CA · +1 morePalo Alto, CA +2On-site
$250,000–$400,000 · OTE
$220,000–$350,000
AndurilBuilds for teams inside the company
Agentic AI Engineer, Automation
Costa Mesa, CA · Long Beach, CACosta Mesa, CA +1On-site
$220,000–$292,000
$200,000–$250,000
$138,000–$230,000
$150,000–$170,000
$300,000–$425,000
$230,000–$303,000
$115,000–$173,000
$130,000–$196,000
AnthropicBuilds for teams inside the company
AI Operations Engineer, Partnerships
San Francisco, CAHybrid
$215,000–$300,000
$180,000–$225,000
$130,000–$196,000
RelativityBuilds for teams inside the company
Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Infrastructure
Long Beach, CAHybrid
$181,000–$271,000
AndurilBuilds for teams inside the company
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Intelligence
Santa Ana, CA
$220,000–$292,000
TatariBuilds for teams inside the company
Senior Software Engineer, Internal Tools & Automation
New York, NYHybrid
$160,000–$180,000 · total compensation
Relativity SpaceBuilds for teams inside the company
Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Infrastructure
Long Beach, CAHybrid
$154,000–$230,000
$240,000–$300,000
$152,440–$228,660
$143,000–$191,000
PerplexityBuilds for teams inside the company
Legal and Operations Engineering Lead
San Francisco, CAHybrid
$150,000–$250,000
$250,000–$400,000
GongBuilds for teams inside the company
GTM AI Architect
Austin, TX · Chicago, IL · +3 moreAustin, TX +4
$138,000–$210,000
TWG GlobalBuilds for teams inside the company
Staff / VP, Data Science - Marketing & Sales Focus
New York, NYHybrid
$280,000–$300,000
Grow TherapyBuilds for teams inside the company
Senior Software Engineer - Developer Experience & AI Enablement
San Francisco, CA · Seattle, WASan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$182,000–$250,000
$200,000–$200,000
$174,500–$240,000
$191,000–$253,000
FluidstackBuilds for teams inside the company
Decision Engineer, Compute Operations
New York, NYOn-site
$224,000–$300,000
OpenAIBuilds for teams inside the company
Applied AI Software Engineer, GTM Growth Engineering
San Francisco, CA
$266,000–$405,000
Horizon mediaBuilds for teams inside the company
Senior AI Engineer, Applied AI Solutions
New York, NYHybrid
$195,000–$225,000
$159,780–$238,080
FluidstackBuilds for teams inside the company
Decision Engineer, Manufacturing & Supply Chain
New York, NYOn-site
$224,000–$300,000
AndurilBuilds for teams inside the company
Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer, ArsenalOS Deployment
Costa Mesa, CA
$220,000–$290,000
$200,000–$247,000
$154,000–$230,000
FluidstackLeads the deployment team
Decision Engineering Team Lead, Business Operations
New York, NYOn-site
$269,000–$335,000
329 of 625 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE jobs pay?
622 of 625 postings state a pay range. The median is $216,000, and half of them sit between $185,000 and $243,000, from 163 companies.
How much experience do FDE jobs require?
Of 625 postings, 309 state a minimum number of years, from 110 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 153 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (114), under 3 years (24) or 10 or more years (18).
Which companies are hiring for FDE jobs?
These 625 postings come from 165 companies. The employers with the most postings are Deloitte US (72), Databricks (70), OpenAI (41), Anduril (38) and Scale AI (27).
Are FDE jobs remote?
103 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 166 are hybrid and 107 are on-site. The remaining 249 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 323 of the 625 postings.
Counted over the 625 postings in this search. Postings read on September 21, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
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