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AltruistInternal deployment & tooling
Senior Customer Success Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Culver City, CA · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
$150,000–$275,000
$200,000–$300,000
Distyl AIInternal deployment & tooling
AI Engineer, Evaluation
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$150,000–$250,000
AltruistInternal deployment & tooling
Senior Customer Success Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Culver City, CA · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
True AnomalyInternal deployment & tooling
Senior Platform Engineer, AI
Denver, CO · Long Beach, CADenver, CO +1Hybrid
$190,000–$285,000
Pay not posted
$149,580–$166,200
AltruistInternal deployment & tooling
Senior Customer Success Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Culver City, CA · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
$220,000–$285,000
Retell AIInternal deployment & tooling
Founders Initiatives, Technical Ex-Founders
Redwood City, CAOn-site
$180,000–$300,000
NVIDIAInternal deployment & tooling
Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Engineering
Santa Clara, CARemote
$184,000–$356,500
EquinixInternal deployment & tooling
GTM Engineer: Customer Experience & Lifecycle
Dallas, TX · Redwood City, CA · +3 moreDallas, TX +4
$136,000–$245,000
$120,000–$150,000
$150,000–$170,000
$136,000–$264,500
EquinixInternal deployment & tooling
GTM Engineer: Pipeline and Revenue Generation
Dallas, TX · Redwood City, CA · +3 moreDallas, TX +4
$131,000–$245,000
LaterInternal deployment & tooling
Senior AI Automation Engineer
Boston, MA · Chicago, IL · +4 moreBoston, MA +5Remote
CA$110,000–CA$160,000
SalesforceInternal deployment & tooling
Partner Technical Architect - Agentforce
Chicago, IL · New York, NY · +2 moreChicago, IL +3
$172,500–$285,800
$195,000–$229,000
Schonfeld Strategic AdvisorsInternal deployment & tooling
Software Engineer - Fundamental Equities
New York, NY
$150,000–$175,000
T-MobileInternal deployment & tooling
Sr Engineer, Enterprise AI
Bellevue, WA · Frisco, TXBellevue, WA +1
$133,100–$240,100
Pay not posted
$165,000–$380,000 · OTE
AnrokInternal deployment & tooling
GTM Engineer
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
$175,000–$205,000
$150,000–$250,000
Pay not posted
$180,000–$200,000
GSKInternal deployment & tooling
Applied AI Engineer
Upper Providence, PA · Cambridge, MAUpper Providence, PA +1
$136,125–$226,875
Deluxe MediaInternal deployment & tooling
Senior Software Engineer – AI & Workflow Automation
Los Angeles, CAHybrid
$170,000–$200,000
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
Carnegie Mellon UniversityInternal deployment & tooling
AI Solutions Architect - Computing Services
Pittsburgh, PA
Pay not posted
$160,000–$180,000
$160,000–$200,000
AnthropicTechnical pre-sales
Applied AI Architect, Commercial
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$240,000–$315,000
CrestaInternal deployment & tooling
GTM Engineer
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · US remoteSan Francisco, CA +1 · US remoteRemote
$150,000–$230,000
$150,000–$250,000 · OTE
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Frequently asked questions
What do senior FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors pay?
695 of 914 postings state a pay range. The median is $192,000, and half of them sit between $160,000 and $225,000, across 308 companies.
How much experience do senior FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors require?
Of 914 postings, 310 state a minimum number of years, from 197 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 186 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (71), under 3 years (49) or 10 or more years (4).
Which companies are hiring for senior FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors?
These 914 postings come from 428 companies. The employers with the most postings are Palantir (49), Amazon (incl AWS) (24), OpenAI (22), Anduril (20) and Accenture (19).
Are senior FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors remote?
150 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 227 are hybrid and 284 are on-site. The remaining 253 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 354 of the 914 postings.
Counted over the 914 postings in this search. Postings read on September 19, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
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