$191,000–$289,300
FDE and deployment jobs at public companies serving external customers
468 postings · 84 companies · 429 state pay: median $180,000, half $150,000–$215,000
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$77,600–$176,000
GECX AI Forward Deployed Engineer - Senior Software Engineer
Atlanta, GA · Dallas, TX · +3 moreAtlanta, GA +4Hybrid
$89,400–$166,398
Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +3 moreBoston, MA +4
$143,700–$213,800
$264,000–$379,500
Pay not posted
GECX AI Forward Deployed Engineer - Software Engineer
Atlanta, GA · Dallas, TX · +3 moreAtlanta, GA +4Hybrid
$76,730–$150,800
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +4 moreBoston, MA +5
$168,100–$261,500
$135,000–$200,000
Forward Deployed Engineer, Kaggle, DeepMind (Fixed-Term Contract)
Mountain View, CA · New York, NYMountain View, CA +1
$174,000–$232,000
Capgemini Invent, Consultant, Forward Deployed Engineer
Atlanta, GA · Chicago, IL · +4 moreAtlanta, GA +5
$110,000–$137,500
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization)
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +3 moreBoston, MA +4
$168,100–$250,200
$135,000–$200,000
Pay not posted
Senior Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer
Austin, TX · San Francisco, CAAustin, TX +1Hybrid
$194,000–$266,000
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government
Jessup, MD · Arlington, VA · +4 moreJessup, MD +5
$143,700–$213,800
$201,300–$352,300
Pay not posted
$133,400–$226,800
Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +2 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +3
$143,700–$223,600
AI Forward Deployed Engineering Manager | Sales ReInvention
Chicago, IL · Milwaukee, WI · +41 moreChicago, IL +42On-site
$80,400–$316,300
$155,000–$186,000
$135,000–$200,000
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
AI Forward Deployed Engineering Senior Manager | Sales ReInvention
Chicago, IL · Milwaukee, WI · +41 moreChicago, IL +42
$112,900–$366,300
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Applied AI
Chicago, IL · Atlanta, GA · +3 moreChicago, IL +4Hybrid
$82,082–$193,440
Principal Software Engineer / Architect – AI, CoCounsel FDE
New York, NY · Frisco, TX · +7 moreNew York, NY +8Hybrid
$158,900–$340,000
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
Full Stack Forward Deployed Engineer - Reinvention Center
Columbus, OH · Tampa, FL · +3 moreColumbus, OH +4Hybrid
Pay not posted
$88,544–$207,401
Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI, CoCounsel FDE
Frisco, TX · Ann Arbor, MI · +1 moreFrisco, TX +2Hybrid
$137,100–$254,700
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
Partner Forward Deployed Engineer V, GenAI, Google Cloud
New York, NY · Sunnyvale, CANew York, NY +1
$262,000–$364,000
$72,600–$132,100
$143,640–$273,000
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government
Jessup, MD · Arlington, VA · +4 moreJessup, MD +5
$168,100–$250,200
$97,860–$316,750
$70,500–$203,400
$162,000–$207,000
Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +2 moreBoston, MA +3
$143,700–$213,800
329 of 468 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs at public companies serving external customers pay?
429 of 468 postings state a pay range. The median is $180,000, and half of them sit between $150,000 and $215,000, from 69 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs at public companies serving external customers require?
Of 468 postings, 237 state a minimum number of years, from 68 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 116 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (86), 10 or more years (27) or under 3 years (8).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs at public companies serving external customers?
These 468 postings come from 84 companies. The employers with the most postings are Amazon (incl AWS) (62), Palantir (60), Accenture (43), Booz Allen (32) and Capgemini (25).
Are FDE and deployment jobs at public companies serving external customers remote?
49 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 94 are hybrid and 71 are on-site. The remaining 254 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 209 of the 468 postings.
Counted over the 468 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
Employer postings · Coding scope, project stages and who the work serves are our reading of each job description. · How we read postings