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410 postings from 215 employers, read for the kind of work, pay and travel each one describes.

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VoltaiProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · Atherton, CA · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid

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Frequently asked questions

What do FDE jobs pay?

316 of 410 postings state a pay range. The median is $216,000, and half of them sit between $190,000 and $254,000, across 165 companies.

How much experience do FDE jobs require?

Of 410 postings, 155 state a minimum number of years, from 105 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 94 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (34), under 3 years (20) or 10 or more years (7).

Which companies are hiring for FDE jobs?

These 410 postings come from 215 companies. The employers with the most postings are NVIDIA (17), Sierra (17), OpenAI (13), Google (12) and Scale AI (12).

Are FDE jobs remote?

36 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 128 are hybrid and 155 are on-site. The remaining 91 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 71 of the 410 postings.

Counted over the 410 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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  • Senior · 1661 jobs · 613 companies · 1661
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  • Junior · 22 jobs · 13 companies · 22

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