$180,000–$250,000
Senior FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads in SF Bay Area
303 postings · 187 companies · 243 state pay: median $215,000, half $185,000–$243,000
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$185,000–$300,000
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer - Public Sector
Berkeley, CA · Kansas City, MO · +1 moreBerkeley, CA +2Remote
$182,000–$250,208
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
Senior Applied AI Engineer (Forward Deployed) [NYC or SF]
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1On-site
$200,000–$260,000
Pay not posted
$240,000–$415,000
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
San Francisco, CA · Boston, MA · +4 moreSan Francisco, CA +5
$168,100–$261,500
$208,600–$312,900
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Google Labs
Mountain View, CA · New York, NYMountain View, CA +1
$174,000–$252,000
$130,000–$210,000
$168,349.5–$230,912.6
Forward Deployed Engineer - Cleared - US
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$170,000–$400,000
$184,000–$356,500
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization)
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$185,000–$300,000
Pay not posted
$270,000–$300,000 · OTE
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +4 moreBoston, MA +5
$168,100–$261,500
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer | New York or San Francisco (Onsite)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1On-site
$136,000–$216,000
Forward Deployed Software Engineer-Palantir Foundry-Senior Associate
San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +57 moreSan Francisco, CA +58Hybrid
$77,000–$202,000
$184,000–$356,500
Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +2 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +3
$143,700–$223,600
Pay not posted
$188,000–$240,000
$180,000–$480,000
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
Lead Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +2 moreSan Francisco, CA +3On-site
$150,000–$220,000
Senior Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TXSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$194,000–$266,000
$201,300–$352,300
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$152,000–$221,000
$170,000–$210,000
$130,000–$250,000
Pay not posted
$120,000–$210,000
$180,000–$220,000
Senior Product Manager, Forward Deployed Platform
San Francisco, CA · Denver, CO · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
$190,000–$300,000
Forward Deployed Engineer - Cybersecurity - US
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$170,000–$400,000
Pay not posted
176 of 303 build what the customer runs.
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Frequently asked questions
What do senior FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads in SF Bay Area pay?
243 of 303 postings state a pay range. The median is $215,000, and half of them sit between $185,000 and $243,000, from 141 companies.
How much experience do senior FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads in SF Bay Area require?
Of 303 postings, 191 state a minimum number of years, from 123 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 114 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (52), under 3 years (18) or 10 or more years (7).
Which companies are hiring for senior FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads in SF Bay Area?
These 303 postings come from 187 companies. The employers with the most postings are NVIDIA (18), OpenAI (13), Accenture (10), Amazon (incl AWS) (10) and Databricks (10).
Are senior FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads in SF Bay Area remote?
34 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 84 are hybrid and 93 are on-site. The remaining 92 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 132 of the 303 postings.
Counted over the 303 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
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