Retell AIProduction engineering
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Mandarin Fluency Required)
Redwood City, CAOn-site
$180,000–$300,000
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Deloitte USProduction engineering
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Frontier GenAI
Multiple US offices
$155,600–$306,800
$185,000–$300,000
$100,000–$140,000
$200,000–$400,000
Deloitte USProduction engineering
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Microsoft AI&Data
Multiple US offices
$155,600–$306,800
$185,000–$300,000
VoltaiProduction engineering
Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Atherton, CA · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
$130,000–$190,000
$155,600–$306,800
$180,000–$230,000
VoltaiProduction engineering
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
San Francisco, CA · Atherton, CA · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
$182,000–$250,208
$155,600–$306,800
$180,000–$230,000
$130,000–$210,000
SiftProduction engineering
Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Marina Del Rey, CASan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$125,000–$175,000
$155,600–$306,800
$200,000–$260,000
$130,000–$210,000
Pay not posted
$155,600–$306,800
Cubic CorporationProduction engineering
Senior Software Engineer – Forward Deployed (Fort Meade)
Fort Meade, MDOn-site
$159,000–$184,000
$189,000–$330,000
$143,500–$225,500
$155,600–$306,800
$168,000–$252,000
$120,000–$158,000
DatabricksProduction engineering
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Public Sector
US · city not listedHybrid
$152,900–$210,155
Deloitte USProduction engineering
Senior Snowflake Forward Deployed Engineer - GPS
Multiple US offices
$155,600–$306,800
$180,000–$230,000
Pay not posted
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Digital Native Business
Mountain View, CA
$182,000–$250,208
$134,500–$265,100
$180,000–$230,000
Istari DigitalProduction engineering
Forward Deployed Engineer (Commercial / International)
Seattle, WAOn-site
Pay not posted
$182,000–$250,208
$155,600–$306,800
$130,000–$240,000
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Frequently asked questions
What do senior FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers pay?
1,031 of 1,326 postings state a pay range. The median is $195,000, and half of them sit between $162,000 and $225,000, across 341 companies.
How much experience do senior FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers require?
Of 1,326 postings, 482 state a minimum number of years, from 233 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 261 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (159), under 3 years (54) or 10 or more years (8).
Which companies are hiring for senior FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers?
These 1,326 postings come from 473 companies. The employers with the most postings are Databricks (64), Deloitte US (63), Amazon (incl AWS) (40), Palantir (40) and Booz Allen (32).
Are senior FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers remote?
227 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 331 are hybrid and 334 are on-site. The remaining 434 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 641 of the 1,326 postings.
Counted over the 1,326 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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