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1,433 postings from 602 employers, read for the kind of work, pay and travel each one describes.

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1,433 jobs

SiftImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer

Marina Del Rey, CA · San Francisco, CAMarina Del Rey, CA +1Hybrid

$125,000–$175,000

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Frequently asked questions

What do FDE jobs pay?

1,126 of 1,433 postings state a pay range. The median is $192,000, and half of them sit between $160,000 and $224,000, across 450 companies.

How much experience do FDE jobs require?

Of 1,433 postings, 596 state a minimum number of years, from 331 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 291 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (203), under 3 years (75) or 10 or more years (27).

Which companies are hiring for FDE jobs?

These 1,433 postings come from 602 companies. The employers with the most postings are Databricks (62), Amazon (incl AWS) (50), Booz Allen (36), Palantir (31) and Anduril (28).

Are FDE jobs remote?

255 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 345 are hybrid and 348 are on-site. The remaining 485 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 425 of the 1,433 postings.

Counted over the 1,433 postings in this search. Postings read on September 20, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.

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  • Remote · 391 jobs · 221 companies · 391

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  • Senior · 1676 jobs · 619 companies · 1676
  • Staff+ · 389 jobs · 232 companies · 389
  • Mid · 95 jobs · 67 companies · 95
  • Junior · 22 jobs · 12 companies · 22

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