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Senior FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors in SF Bay Area

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VoltaiProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

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

Pay not posted

SiftProduction engineering

Forward Deployed Engineer

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

$125,000–$175,000

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Frequently asked questions

What do senior FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors in SF Bay Area pay?

249 of 325 postings state a pay range. The median is $210,000, and half of them sit between $180,000 and $250,000, across 132 companies.

How much experience do senior FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors in SF Bay Area require?

Of 325 postings, 103 state a minimum number of years, from 71 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 70 of them. The rest ask for under 3 years (16), 6 to 9 years (15) or 10 or more years (2).

Which companies are hiring for senior FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors in SF Bay Area?

These 325 postings come from 178 companies. The employers with the most postings are OpenAI (15), Sierra (13), NVIDIA (11), Accenture (7) and Anthropic (6).

Are senior FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors in SF Bay Area remote?

26 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 112 are hybrid and 117 are on-site. The remaining 70 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 108 of the 325 postings.

Counted over the 325 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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