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Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs involving production implementation
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$254,000–$297,000
MicrosoftProduction engineering
Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Health
New York, NYOn-site
$142,800–$331,200
Invisible TechnologiesProduction engineering
Staff Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$210,000–$300,000
$168,912–$253,368
$240,000–$300,000
$142,800–$304,200
AccentureProduction engineering
AI - Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer - FDE Senior Manager
Atlanta, GA · Milwaukee, WI · +41 moreAtlanta, GA +42
$112,900–$366,300
Pay not posted
$190,200–$360,500
SnowflakeProduction engineering
Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI
Menlo Park, CAHybrid
$200,000–$270,000
AccentureProduction engineering
Cybersecurity AI Forward Deployed Engineer - FDE - Manager
Atlanta, GA · Milwaukee, WI · +41 moreAtlanta, GA +42
$80,400–$305,000
$310,000–$350,000
Scale AIProduction engineering
Staff Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2
$252,000–$315,000
$236,000–$339,250
AccentureProduction engineering
AI/ML Sr Architect - Forward Deployed Engineer Senior Manager · Reinvention Centers
Dallas, TX · Columbus, OH · +3 moreDallas, TX +4Hybrid
$112,900–$338,300
PMGProduction engineering
Forward Deployed Engineering Principal
Dallas, TX · New York, NY · +1 moreDallas, TX +2
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
$220,000–$239,000
AccentureProduction engineering
Sr. AI Engineer - Forward Deployed Engineer Senior Manager · Snowflake · Reinvention Centers
Dallas, TX · Columbus, OH · +3 moreDallas, TX +4Hybrid
$112,900–$338,300
Pay not posted
$118,400–$222,000
$220,000–$239,000
Tessera LabsProduction engineering
Forward-Deployed Engineer
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Remote
$180,000–$233,000
$160,000–$270,000
Invisible TechnologiesProduction engineering
Principal Backend Engineer (Forward Deployed)
New York, NYHybrid
$250,000–$300,000
SmartsheetProduction engineering
Senior Principal Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Remote Eligible)
USRemote
$235,000–$315,000
Lila SciencesProduction engineering
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Physical Sciences (Level Flexible)
Cambridge, MA
$192,000–$256,000
$240,000–$290,000
$200,000–$225,000
reflection.aiProduction engineering
Forward Deployed Engineer, Lead - LLM Post-training
New York, NYOn-site
Pay not posted
$180,000–$400,000
$149,800–$262,200
$207,000–$300,000
$190,000–$230,000
Scale AIProduction engineering
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Public Sector
Denver, CO · Washington, DCDenver, CO +1
$274,400–$343,000
$160,000–$205,000
Pay not posted
$215,000–$260,000
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Frequently asked questions
What do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs involving production implementation pay?
311 of 366 postings state a pay range. The median is $225,000, and half of them sit between $188,000 and $263,000, across 183 companies.
How much experience do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs involving production implementation require?
Of 366 postings, 200 state a minimum number of years, from 133 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 100 of them. The rest ask for 10 or more years (49), 3 to 5 years (48) or under 3 years (3).
Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE and deployment jobs involving production implementation?
These 366 postings come from 218 companies. The employers with the most postings are Accenture (10), Amazon (incl AWS) (10), Deloitte US (10), Broadcom (8) and CapTech Consulting (8).
Are staff-level FDE and deployment jobs involving production implementation remote?
76 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 114 are hybrid and 55 are on-site. The remaining 121 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 126 of the 366 postings.
Counted over the 366 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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