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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
$129,000–$171,000
$150,000–$275,000
$200,000–$300,000
AltruistInternal deployment & tooling
Senior Customer Success Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Culver City, CA · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
$129,000–$171,000
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
AltruistInternal deployment & tooling
Senior Customer Success Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Culver City, CA · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
$143,000–$191,000
Distyl AIInternal deployment & tooling
AI Engineer, Evaluation
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$150,000–$250,000
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
$220,000–$285,000
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
$149,580–$166,200
Retell AIInternal deployment & tooling
Founders Initiatives, Technical Ex-Founders
Redwood City, CAOn-site
$180,000–$300,000
$127,400–$182,000
$131,250–$153,750
$149,580–$166,200
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
Pay not posted
$143,000–$210,000
$120,000–$150,000
EquinixInternal deployment & tooling
GTM Engineer: Pipeline and Revenue Generation
Dallas, TX · Redwood City, CA · +3 moreDallas, TX +4
$131,000–$245,000
$136,000–$264,500
$150,000–$170,000
$108,400–$129,600
LaterInternal deployment & tooling
Senior AI Automation Engineer
Boston, MA · Chicago, IL · +4 moreBoston, MA +5Remote
CA$110,000–CA$160,000
Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL)Internal deployment & tooling
Senior Data Engineer
Westmont, IL · Chicago, ILWestmont, IL +1On-site
$140,000–$180,000
Arch Capital GroupInternal deployment & tooling
AVP, AI (Data Science/Engineer) Remote - EST
Raleigh, NC · New York, NY · +2 moreRaleigh, NC +3Remote
$185,000–$235,000
SalesforceInternal deployment & tooling
Partner Technical Architect - Agentforce
Chicago, IL · New York, NY · +2 moreChicago, IL +3
$172,500–$285,800
$195,000–$229,000
NordstromInternal deployment & tooling
Senior Engineer 2: AI Agentic Solutions (Hybrid - Seattle, WA)
Seattle, WAHybrid
$166,000–$258,000
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Frequently asked questions
What do senior FDE and deployment jobs pay?
1,315 of 1,666 postings state a pay range. The median is $193,000, and half of them sit between $160,000 and $223,000, across 454 companies.
How much experience do senior FDE and deployment jobs require?
Of 1,666 postings, 641 state a minimum number of years, from 325 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 353 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (200), under 3 years (76) or 10 or more years (12).
Which companies are hiring for senior FDE and deployment jobs?
These 1,666 postings come from 612 companies. The employers with the most postings are Databricks (65), Deloitte US (64), Palantir (55), Amazon (incl AWS) (47) and OpenAI (36).
Are senior FDE and deployment jobs remote?
284 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 416 are hybrid and 418 are on-site. The remaining 548 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 722 of the 1,666 postings.
Counted over the 1,666 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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