Principal Backend Engineer (Forward Deployed)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$250,000–$300,000
Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area
146 postings · 94 companies · 129 state pay: median $240,000, half $215,000–$270,000
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Staff Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$210,000–$300,000
$190,900–$334,100
$195,000–$215,000
$165,604–$228,491
Staff Solutions Engineer - FDSE Public Sector - Splunk (Remote)
San Jose, CA · Reston, VA · +6 moreSan Jose, CA +7Remote
$246,800–$394,300
Pay not posted
$207,000–$300,000
$200,000–$350,000
$166,500–$291,400
Infrastructure Engineer, Customer Delivery
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$200,000–$250,000
$180,000–$270,000
Staff Applied AI Engineer - Enterprise AI Solutions
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · US remoteSan Francisco, CA +1 · US remoteRemote
$230,000–$360,000
$190,900–$334,100
Pay not posted
$234,000–$286,000
$180,000–$390,000
$166,500–$291,400
$250,000–$300,000
$207,000–$300,000
$200,000–$290,000
$166,500–$291,400
$215,000–$260,000
Staff Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2
$265,000–$331,000
$200,000–$400,000
$190,900–$334,100
$200,000–$250,000
Staff Specialist Field Engineer, Robotics
San Francisco, CA · Sunnyvale, CASan Francisco, CA +1
$177,000–$237,000
Senior Staff Frontier Agents Engineer
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2
$288,000–$360,000
Staff+ Software Engineer, Public Sector
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
$405,000–$485,000
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
GoogleBuilds for teams inside the company
Lead GenAI Forward Deployed Engineer, YouTube GTM Operations
Mountain View, CA · San Bruno, CA · +1 moreMountain View, CA +2
$186,000–$269,000
$230,000–$294,000
Analog DevicesBuilds for teams inside the company
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI Productivity
San Jose, CA · Dallas, TXSan Jose, CA +1
$200,000–$275,000
Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL)Builds for teams inside the company
Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2On-site
$150,000–$300,000
PrologisBuilds for teams inside the company
Lead Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Denver, CO · +8 moreSan Francisco, CA +9
$200,000–$285,000
Flow EngineeringLeads the deployment team
Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
San Francisco, CAOn-site
$240,000–$300,000
AircallLeads the deployment team
Forward Deployed Engineering Team Lead
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1
$200,000–$256,000
73 of 146 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area pay?
129 of 146 postings state a pay range. The median is $240,000, and half of them sit between $215,000 and $270,000, from 80 companies.
How much experience do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area require?
Of 146 postings, 111 state a minimum number of years, from 72 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 56 of them. The rest ask for 3 to 5 years (28) or 10 or more years (27).
Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area?
These 146 postings come from 94 companies. The employers with the most postings are Amazon (incl AWS) (11), ServiceNow (6), Snorkel AI (5), Google (4) and Scale AI (4).
Are staff-level FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area remote?
14 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 46 are hybrid and 28 are on-site. The remaining 58 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 54 of the 146 postings.
Counted over the 146 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
Employer postings · Locations cover the metro area, not only the city. Responsibility levels reflect our reading of the work, not just the employer’s title. · How we read postings