AndurilInternal deployment & tooling
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Intelligence
Santa Ana, CA
$220,000–$292,000
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$138,000–$210,000
$200,000–$200,000
$143,000–$191,000
$125,000–$195,000
$174,500–$240,000
OpenAIInternal deployment & tooling
Applied AI Software Engineer, GTM Growth Engineering
San Francisco, CA
$266,000–$405,000
$191,000–$253,000
$125,000–$200,000
Horizon mediaInternal deployment & tooling
Senior AI Engineer, Applied AI Solutions
New York, NYHybrid
$195,000–$225,000
$154,000–$230,000
$154,000–$230,000
Pay not posted
ZiplineInternal deployment & tooling
Supply Chain Business Operations Manager, AI Strategy
South San Francisco, CAOn-site
$147,800–$285,200
RelativityInternal deployment & tooling
Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack (Factory Platform)
Long Beach, CA
$154,000–$230,000
Relativity SpaceInternal deployment & tooling
Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack (Factory Platform)
Long Beach, CA
$154,000–$230,000
Pay not posted
$203,200–$254,000
PerplexityInternal deployment & tooling
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Adoption)
San Francisco, CA
$220,000–$405,000
$180,000–$300,000
SpaceXInternal deployment & tooling
Application Software Engineer, Applied AI
Cape Canaveral, FLOn-site
Pay not posted
$126,600–$189,800
$182,300–$220,000
Pay not posted
SpaceXInternal deployment & tooling
Operations Engineer, Applied AI (Application Software)
Starbase, TXOn-site
Pay not posted
$129,000–$171,000
AltruistInternal deployment & tooling
Senior Customer Success Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Culver City, CA · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
$220,000–$285,000
$129,000–$171,000
AltruistInternal deployment & tooling
Senior Customer Success Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Culver City, CA · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
$131,250–$153,750
$120,000–$150,000
$129,000–$171,000
AltruistInternal deployment & tooling
Senior Customer Success Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Culver City, CA · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
LaterInternal deployment & tooling
Senior AI Automation Engineer
Boston, MA · Chicago, IL · +4 moreBoston, MA +5Remote
CA$110,000–CA$160,000
$195,000–$229,000
$143,000–$191,000
Schonfeld Strategic AdvisorsInternal deployment & tooling
Software Engineer - Fundamental Equities
New York, NY
$150,000–$175,000
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Frequently asked questions
What do senior FDE and deployment jobs at later-stage private companies pay?
359 of 426 postings state a pay range. The median is $216,000, and half of them sit between $185,000 and $235,000, across 106 companies.
How much experience do senior FDE and deployment jobs at later-stage private companies require?
Of 426 postings, 171 state a minimum number of years, from 82 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 86 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (68), under 3 years (13) or 10 or more years (4).
Which companies are hiring for senior FDE and deployment jobs at later-stage private companies?
These 426 postings come from 138 companies. The employers with the most postings are Databricks (65), OpenAI (36), Anduril (34), Scale AI (19) and Decagon (13).
Are senior FDE and deployment jobs at later-stage private companies remote?
90 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 119 are hybrid and 77 are on-site. The remaining 140 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 209 of the 426 postings.
Counted over the 426 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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