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Senior FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers
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$266,000–$445,000
$180,000–$230,000
$116,500–$158,000
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$230,000–$300,000
$125,000–$270,000
$153,090–$218,700
Together AIImplementation & delivery
Forward Deployed Engineer (Inference & Post-Training)
San Francisco, CA
$270,000–$300,000 · OTE
$230,000–$300,000
$99,000–$225,000
$192,010–$274,300
PalantirInternal deployment & tooling
Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer - US Government
Honolulu, HIHybrid
$135,000–$200,000
$153,000–$200,000
$180,000–$210,000
$190,000–$265,000
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
$150,000–$180,000
$180,000–$240,000
$99,000–$133,000
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$120,000–$150,000
$140,000–$180,000
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$110,000–$170,000
$150,000–$240,000
$70,000–$300,000
CloudflareImplementation & delivery
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Austin, TX · Dallas, TX · +2 moreAustin, TX +3Hybrid
$184,000–$253,000
PalantirInternal deployment & tooling
Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer - US Government
New York, NYHybrid
$135,000–$200,000
$170,000–$280,000 · OTE
$200,000–$300,000
$160,000–$180,000
$110,000–$147,000
$185,000–$235,000
Snorkel AIImplementation & delivery
Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer - Data as a Service
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$180,000–$320,000
DatabricksImplementation & delivery
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Communications, Media, Entertainment & Games
Austin, TX
$182,000–$250,208
PalantirImplementation & delivery
Forward Deployed Security Engineer - US Government
Washington, DCOn-site
$90,000–$150,000
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
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Frequently asked questions
What do senior FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers pay?
1,046 of 1,341 postings state a pay range. The median is $194,000, and half of them sit between $162,000 and $224,000, across 341 companies.
How much experience do senior FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers require?
Of 1,341 postings, 501 state a minimum number of years, from 241 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 272 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (164), under 3 years (57) or 10 or more years (8).
Which companies are hiring for senior FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers?
These 1,341 postings come from 473 companies. The employers with the most postings are Deloitte US (64), Databricks (63), Amazon (incl AWS) (44), Palantir (40) and Booz Allen (34).
Are senior FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers remote?
227 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 331 are hybrid and 336 are on-site. The remaining 447 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 647 of the 1,341 postings.
Counted over the 1,341 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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