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1,400 postings from 575 employers, read for the kind of work, pay and travel each one describes.

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SiftImplementation & delivery

Forward Deployed Engineer

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

$125,000–$175,000

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Frequently asked questions

What do FDE jobs pay?

1,092 of 1,400 postings state a pay range. The median is $190,000, and half of them sit between $160,000 and $222,000, across 424 companies.

How much experience do FDE jobs require?

Of 1,400 postings, 526 state a minimum number of years, from 296 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 285 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (162), under 3 years (68) or 10 or more years (11).

Which companies are hiring for FDE jobs?

These 1,400 postings come from 575 companies. The employers with the most postings are Databricks (63), Amazon (incl AWS) (45), Booz Allen (34), Palantir (28) and Anduril (27).

Are FDE jobs remote?

243 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 342 are hybrid and 367 are on-site. The remaining 448 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 456 of the 1,400 postings.

Counted over the 1,400 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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  • Hybrid · 562 jobs · 244 companies · 562
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  • Remote · 390 jobs · 220 companies · 390

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  • Senior · 1666 jobs · 612 companies · 1666
  • Staff+ · 380 jobs · 226 companies · 380
  • Mid · 94 jobs · 67 companies · 94
  • Junior · 20 jobs · 11 companies · 20

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