ModalProduction engineering
Forward Deployed Engineer - Systems
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1On-site
$180,000–$240,000
617 postings from 223 employers, read for the kind of work, pay and travel each one describes.
Counts show jobs matching each option and your other filters. Select several options to match any of them.
Selected metros or remote. Remote jobs may have residency restrictions.
Matches the top of the posted range, annualized in US dollars and sometimes including variable pay. Postings with no posted range are hidden when you choose an amount.
Our reading of the role, not the employer’s title. Junior: guided work; Mid: independent delivery; Senior: leads an ambiguous project through production; Staff+: leads across teams or projects.
Postings that ask for that many years or fewer, plus postings that state no requirement. The kind of experience still matters.
Postings that do not mention travel are treated as no travel, so they are left out of 25% or more.
Estimated from the job description, not measured working hours.
Estimated from public information about the company. Bands are approximate. Companies without a stated size are listed as not stated.
617 jobs match
Selected metros or remote. Remote jobs may have residency restrictions.
617 jobs match
Matches the top of the posted range, annualized in US dollars and sometimes including variable pay. Postings with no posted range are hidden when you choose an amount.
617 jobs match
617 jobs match
617 jobs match
Our reading of the role, not the employer’s title. Junior: guided work; Mid: independent delivery; Senior: leads an ambiguous project through production; Staff+: leads across teams or projects.
617 jobs match
Postings that ask for that many years or fewer, plus postings that state no requirement. The kind of experience still matters.
617 jobs match
617 jobs match
Postings that do not mention travel are treated as no travel, so they are left out of 25% or more.
617 jobs match
Estimated from the job description, not measured working hours.
617 jobs match
ModalProduction engineering
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1On-site
$180,000–$240,000
DatabricksProduction engineering
Denver, CO
$182,000–$250,208
OpenAIProduction engineering
Washington, DC · Seattle, WA · +1 moreWashington, DC +2Hybrid
$145,800–$280,000
$175,000–$240,000 · OTE
$175,000–$250,000
DatabricksProduction engineering
Mountain View, CA
$182,000–$250,208
$185,000–$275,000
$190,000–$280,000
$180,000–$400,000
DatabricksProduction engineering
Raleigh, NC
$182,000–$250,208
$180,000–$300,000
$165,000–$330,000
$170,000–$280,000
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
$150,000–$250,000
$149,800–$262,200
$144,900–$302,100
$191,000–$253,000
$207,000–$300,000
$120,000–$240,000
Scale AIProduction engineering
Denver, CO · Honolulu, HI · +1 moreDenver, CO +2
$235,200–$294,000
$191,000–$253,000
$150,000–$250,000
$200,000–$240,000
Scale AIProduction engineering
Denver, CO · Washington, DCDenver, CO +1
$274,400–$343,000
$215,000–$260,000
Deloitte USProduction engineering
Multiple US offices
$122,000–$240,500
$160,000–$500,000
Compare pay across US FDE roles →
Employer postings · Postings read on · Sources
617 of 617 postings state a pay range. The median is $226,000, and half of them sit between $213,000 and $254,000, across 223 companies.
Of 617 postings, 271 state a minimum number of years, from 113 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 127 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (115), 10 or more years (16) or under 3 years (13).
These 617 postings come from 223 companies. The employers with the most postings are Databricks (60), Deloitte US (38), OpenAI (28), Anduril (24) and Google (20).
84 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 156 are hybrid and 131 are on-site. The remaining 246 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 289 of the 617 postings.
Counted over the 617 postings in this search. Postings read on September 18, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.