DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Communications, Media, Entertainment & Games
Mountain View, CA
$182,000–$250,208
434 postings from 115 employers, read for the kind of work, pay and travel each one describes.
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DatabricksProduction engineering
Mountain View, CA
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Raleigh, NC
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Philadelphia, PA
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
New York, NY
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Boston, MA
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Chicago, ILRemote
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Dallas, TX
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Austin, TX
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Atlanta, GA
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Philadelphia, PA
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
$166,000–$220,000
Scale AIProduction engineering
Denver, CO · Honolulu, HI · +1 moreDenver, CO +2
$235,200–$294,000
$215,000–$260,000
$211,000–$302,000
$191,000–$253,000
Scale AIProduction engineering
Denver, CO · Washington, DCDenver, CO +1
$274,400–$343,000
AnthropicProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$280,000–$320,000
$347,000–$385,000
$191,000–$253,000
$180,000–$210,000
$160,000–$230,000
$347,000–$385,000
$191,000–$253,000
$140,000–$170,000 · total compensation
$150,000–$400,000
$165,000–$330,000
$220,000–$292,000
$140,000–$170,000 · total compensation
Scale AIProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1On-site
$180,000–$225,000
$200,000–$400,000
$191,000–$253,000
StripeProduction engineering
New York, NY · Seattle, WA · US remoteNew York, NY +1 · US remoteRemote
$190,400–$285,600
Scale AIProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1
$216,000–$270,000
$200,000–$400,000
Red Cell PartnersProduction engineering
Seattle, WA · Mclean, VASeattle, WA +1Remote
$180,000–$240,000
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433 of 434 postings state a pay range. The median is $216,000, and half of them sit between $192,000 and $243,000, across 114 companies.
Of 434 postings, 197 state a minimum number of years, from 81 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 90 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (84), under 3 years (13) or 10 or more years (10).
These 434 postings come from 115 companies. The employers with the most postings are Databricks (70), OpenAI (40), Anduril (38), Scale AI (26) and Decagon (15).
75 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 136 are hybrid and 70 are on-site. The remaining 153 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 212 of the 434 postings.
Counted over the 434 postings in this search. Postings read on September 18, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.